Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin shared some behind-the-scenes photos from the film while confirming that production has wrapped on the latest Evil Dead movie.
“8 months, 1 Covid Lockdown, 6,500 litres of blood, and more memories than my brain can even process. That is a wrap on [Evil Dead Rise]. Thank you New Zealand, it’s been a blast. Time to head home and cut this beast together,” wrote Cronin in the accompany caption on Twitter. The images feature the filmmaker covered in blood, as well as some blood-stained shoes, and a bloody shoe print. (Obviously, all that blood is fake.)
8 months, 1 Covid Lockdown, 6,500 litres of blood, and more memories than my brain can even process. That is a wrap on #EvilDeadRise. Thank you New Zealand, it’s been a blast. Time to head home and cut this beast together. pic.twitter.com/iyah4vEEqL
— Lee Cronin (@curleecronin) October 26, 2021
Cronin both writes and directs Evil Dead Rise, with Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell acting as executive producers. The former is coming off his feature directorial debut on the critically acclaimed 2019 supernatural horror film The Hole in the Ground and previously collaborated with Raimi on 50 States of Fright, a horror anthology series that Raimi produced for Quibi (with Cronin directing the two-parter “13 Steps to Hell (Washington)”).
Raimi, of course, famously directed the original Evil Dead movie trilogy — consisting of The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead II (1987), and Army of Darkness (1992) — starring Campbell as unsuspecting college student-turned chainsaw-armed, deadite-slaying antihero Ash Williams. After briefly reprising the character in a post-credits scene for Fede Alvarez’s 2013 Evil Dead remake (which Raimi and Campbell also produced), Campbell re-teamed with Raimi for Ash vs Evil Dead, a TV show that picks up with Ash in more or less real-time after the events of the duo’s original horror/comedy films. The well-reviewed series aired on Starz for three seasons before ending in 2018.
Campbell is not reprising Ash for Evil Dead Rise. Instead, the movie follows a road-weary young woman named Beth (Lily Sullivan) as, per the film’s synopsis, she “pays an overdue visit to her older sister Ellie, who is raising three kids on her own in a cramped L.A apartment. The sisters’ reunion is cut short by the discovery of a mysterious book deep in the bowels of Ellie’s building, giving rise to flesh-possessing demons, and thrusting Beth into a primal battle for survival as she is faced with the most nightmarish version of motherhood imaginable.”
Evil Dead Rise will forgo a theatrical release and head straight to streaming on HBO Max. It’s tentatively scheduled to arrive in 2022.
Source: Twitter
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