Evil Dead Rise (spoiler!)

[Podey]

Went to see this last night and, at the end of the movie, a new deadite “final form” is revealed which is essentially the Rimmer monster from “Officer Rimmer”; a mass of bodies conjoined into one.

Here’s the thing, though… I think Red Dwarf did it better. The deadite beast was not scary or threatening at all and actually seemed like less of a threat than the individual demons it had formed from, which is unfortunate.  

That’s not to say that the Rimmer monster was any of those adjectives (scary, threatening) but I think Officer Rimmer’s climax (oo-er!) contained a better version of this thing than that of Evil Dead Rise.

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[Flap Jack]

But did Evil Dead Rise end as abruptly?

[Warbodog]

In Clive Barker’s ‘In the Hills, the Cities,’ the whole populations of towns are conjoined into giant monsters that have a scrap.

[Jonathan Capps]

Why did it combine three final forms into one though?

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

In Clive Barker’s ‘In the Hills, the Cities,’ the whole populations of towns are conjoined into giant monsters that have a scrap.

That also happens in Dave Stone’s Heart of TARDIS. Strange book by a strange man.

[Rushy]

I love these movies. I don’t think there’s been a bad one yet.

Ash vs Evil Dead was pretty bad for the first two seasons, but thoroughly redeemed itself with season 3. 

[Podey]

I love these movies. I don’t think there’s been a bad one yet.
Ash vs Evil Dead was pretty bad for the first two seasons, but thoroughly redeemed itself with season 3. 

Season 2 was the high point for me. Season 3 had its moments but I was a bit underwhelmed with it. 

[Rushy]

I think with season 3, I mainly appreciated the genius behind Ash’s daughter – they could have so easily gone for a sarcastic female Bruce Campbell right away, but instead they build up to that very gradually. We see her go through the same journey as Ash himself did in the original films, where he starts out being this soft spoken normal young man and the insanity builds up to the point where he cracks. 

The finale was also worth the wait, with Ash having to endure a proper moral crisis for the first time in ages (it’s my opinion that Campbell has forgotten how to properly act, they have to coax genuine emotion out of him) and going off in a blaze of glory. The jump forward to the future was the cherry on top for me. It really was the perfect ending for him. 

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