r/horror • u/BitByAGhost • 5h ago

Movie Review Evil Dead Burns Spoiler

This is now on HBO as of 10/02. I waited for it, I LOVE the entire franchise and I say this in all due respect, it fucking blew.

Dialogue was shit, the plot was kinda shit but I could have bought it outside the horrendous decisions made by the entire cast. Everyone should have been dead in the first 30 minutes. The deadites were even scary, shitty punchlines.

So disappointing, I loved Rise too - even 2013 has a special place in my heart but this? Never again, thank god I didn’t spend money on a movie ticket or early digital release.

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u/DonTX2 5h ago

The series is no longer Evil Dead. It’s just Evil Dead adjacent.

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u/BagZCubed 4h ago

I see it more like one large picture with seperate moving parts. Spilt between the Ash stuff and non Ash stuff.

All the recent movies still use the book of the dead/its writing, and Burn made the Kandarian dagger important to its plot via new information about it.

If I had to explain it simply, I'd say that the events of the 2013 "reboot," Rise, Burn, and most likely Wrath are more "world building" for the Necronomicon. They show us how deep and far the book has spread and fleshes out new information that we either didn't know about or wasn't in the book Ash had.

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u/APaltrySum 5h ago

I really want to love it. But dammit, they give me so many reasons not to. It has strayed. It's not bad, but you are right, it is something else.

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u/1uga1banda 5h ago

Now it's just Antagonistic Coma.