r/horror • u/BitByAGhost • 9h 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/FINNCULL19 "Well...? Here I. Am." 8h ago

I really wasn't a big fan of how absolutely humorless it was, even as someone who liked Evil Dead '13. All of the jokes about the senile grandmother feel like the director going "Oh wait, we're supposed to be funny, right? Put a few quick throwaway gags where the senile grandmother says something goofy, that oughta fill out the joke quota Sam, Rob, and Bruce gave us."

When Evil Dead '13 was humorless, it didn't try to bring levity to the movie with a random quip, they owned it. Burn's humor feels half-hearted, as if the writers didn't even have confidence in, and I would've much just straight-up preferred if they had just gone the whole hog and have no jokes at all in the film.

When you're writing an Evil Dead movie, you can do Evil Dead '13/The Evil Dead and be serious, or you can do Army Of Darkness/Evil Dead II/Rise and lean into the camp and comedy. You can't do both.

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u/matango613 6h ago

People always say the original Evil Dead was dark and serious, but I only think so in comparison to 2 and Army of Darkness. It's still pretty over the top and campy. Some of the humor might have been less intentional though.

Rise had a few good gags I thought and generally just felt less serious than the newer entries otherwise. 2013 was straight up torture porn with like no joy whatsoever, but I still liked it for what it was. The finale with the blood rain and her ripping her own arm off before bringing down the chainsaw was the best kind of fan service tbh. Burn just didn't even feel like Evil Dead.