Final 12 months, Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise put a recent coat of (pleasingly gory) paint on the much-loved cult horror franchise. Now, there are rumblings anew for the 43-year-old sequence: a movie from rising horror star Sébastien Vaniček, whose Infested thrilled audiences at Unbelievable Fest final 12 months and can stream on Shudder later in 2024. But it surely gained’t precisely be one other Evil Dead sequel.
According to Deadline, which broke the information, Vaniček will co-write and direct “a brand new spin-off of the Evil Lifeless franchise for Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert’s Ghost Home Photos,” with plot particulars nonetheless “underneath wraps.” That is an intriguing approach to body the brand new entry, which has already seen a trio of authentic movies (1981’s The Evil Lifeless, 1987’s Evil Lifeless Rise, and 1992’s Military of Darkness, all directed by Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell); the 2013 reboot from Fede Álvarez, who has a new Alien movie coming this 12 months; and the Starz TV sequence Ash vs. Evil Lifeless, which additionally starred Campbell and ran from 2015-2018. And, after all, there was 2023’s Evil Lifeless Rise, which earned essential reward and went on to grow to be the highest-grossing movie within the sequence up to now—and is extra of a standalone, spinning out the mythology of Raimi’s creation with new characters and a brand new setting.
So what might “spin-off” imply, precisely? You must assume a number of the primary DNA of the sequence will probably be concerned—the Neconomicon and Deadites appear seemingly suspects—however with out realizing the place or when the film’s set, it’s onerous to think about what else may transpire. Vaniček’s competition breakout, Infested, is a recent creature characteristic set in a French high-rise (io9’s Fantastic Fest review called it “Assault the Block, however with killer spiders,” and praised the stress and crazy power the director delivered to the story), however contemplating Evil Lifeless Rise’s personal high-rise storyline, it appears secure to imagine he’ll department out into new territory.
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