The third in modern series and/or sixth overall is brought by Sébastien Vaniček and his Infested team.
Souheila Yacoub - Alice
Tandi Wright - Susan
Hunter Doohan - Joseph
Luciane Buchanan - Thya
Erroll Shand - Edgar
Maude Davey - Polly
George Pullar - Will
Tapiwa Soropa - Mike
Keanu Karim - Jared
Summary
At his family's lakehouse, Joseph Price listens to research recorded by his late grandfather Benjamin on the Necronomicon, and uncovers the Kandarian dagger (created by The Circle of the Wise Men), which can destroy Deadites.
His discovery attracts the attention of Jessica, who murders a pair of fishermen using fish hooks and literally boiling an area of the lake.
To recap, Jessica (now played by Greta van den Brink, not Anna-Maree Thomas), was the Deadite at the 'beginning' of Rise, which is actually one day after main event.
We smash cut to Joseph's brother Will, who after having an argument with his wife Alice, drunkenly drives away and crashes into Jessica. Her severed head recites a passage from the Necronomicon and laughs as Will burns to death in the wreckage.
At Will's cremation, Will's father Edgar says goodbye in private, but corpse escapes the casket and burns him.
Back at the lakehouse, Alice finds the Necronomicon and utters "Kunda", "Astratta", "Montosse" and substitutes "Canda" for "Oh fuck this!"
But the damage is already done.
To your perfect family
There are two extra scenes, which I'll get to soon.
Brutality isn't worthy of the hype, but gore and sadism satisfied my filthy soul.
The scene which had to be shortened to get by the censors is Joseph smashing Thya's head in with a dishwasher door.
I've seen a lot worse.
While running time is never scary, Polly driving a fountain pen into Alice's eardrum was nasty.
Complete with burning house, climax is pretty much a replay of Evil Dead, but CG for Will is terrible. More so, video game geeks (which I'm obviously not) should compare end boss to the final form of Lorenzo Belli from 2005 PS2 survival horror Haunting Ground.
Alice uses a jackhammer and the dagger to cook bastard's goose.
The mutt that Edgar stabs to death with a fork and later comes back as a Dogite is called Max, likely a nod to Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Anyway, as promised.
Mid-credits
A legless Polly crawling on the road is approached by a motorist and gets scratched for being a good citizen.
Post-credits
Back at the crematorium, the manager leaves her child in the office and we're shown two urns as yet unclaimed by loved ones.
First is labelled Christopher Leroy, which has nothing to do with franchise. Name is a reference to José Garcia's character Christophe Leroy in co-writer Florent Bernard's 2024 feature debut Nous, les Leroy (We, the Leroys).
The other is Ellie Bixler, whose ghost in human form is reflected in a mirror. Then as a Deadite, breaks the girl's neck stating: "Mommy's back!"
Okay, this makes no FUCKING sense.
Deadites are not ghosts and only possess physical hosts (living or dead).
At the end of Rise, Ellie, fused with her children Danny, Bridget and neighbours, become the Marauder, and fed to a wood chipper by Bethie Boo.
So there's nothing to cremate, unless you count blood and meat as 'ashes'.
Going further, how did the crematorium acquire her remains?
(Rolls eyes).
Set in 1972, Evil Dead Wrath will serve as a prequel to The Evil Dead and due April 2028.
I'm already there.
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