Welcome back to the Heavy Spoilers show, I’m your host Jared aka the man with the chainsaw
and boomstick and in this video we’re going to be going over the ending of EVIL DEAD RIIIISSSEEE.
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But in this breakdown we’re going to be going over the plot, themes, post credits
teases, other Evil Dead staples, along with our thoughts of the movie.
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Now RIIIISSSSEEEE.
Alright so Evil Dead Rise actually starts with a pretty sick cold open of a group of
friends on a secluded camping trip.
Very reminiscent of the other Evil Dead cabin settings, as the camera quickly zooms through
the forest like the spirit of a deadite, but it’s actually a remote controlled drone.
We soon realize one of the girls on the trip is acting erratic and is already possessed
by a deadite.
Ripping the scalp from her cousin, and drowning her boyfriend in a red cloud of murky lake
water.
She then elevates out of the water, with big ass letters of Evil Dead Rise coming up from
the horizon as the title card.
Hell of an opening, then boom bam, “One Day Earlier” text pops on screen.
So yeah, these camping teens aren’t even who we’re focusing on, as we are introduced
to one of our main characters, Beth, living the life of a grungy metal band guitar technician
or I guess groupie, finding out she is pregnant.
This shocking revelation sends Beth to her sister’s, Ellie, living in a condemned apartment
building in Los Angeles.
Her, her three children, and only a couple others are living on the top floor of this
joint, which is set to be demolished in a month.
Beth and Ellie have a bit of a strained relationship, you can tell they had to raise themselves
because their mother wasn’t the best, because surprise surprise, there is an underlying
theme of motherhood running throughout all of this.
Expecting mother, established mother, and I guess an abandoned mother.
Again with this uneasy relationship, Ellie sends the kids out to grab some Za, as her
and Beth catch up, with Beth learning Ellie and her husband split, and she wasn’t there
to help Ellie in a time of need.
A sisterly bond theme thrown in there too.
But as the kids are coming back with the pizza from a place called Henrietta’s Pizza, a
nice callback to Evil Dead 2 I think, there is an earthquake that structurally breaks
some of the foundation in the parking garage.
Danny, Ellie’s son, finds a small hole has been created, leading into an abandoned bank
vault below the building.
In here he finds some vintage vinyl records annnnnddd unbeknownst to him the book of the
dead.
Director Cronin mentioned this book is actually different from the original book, and the
one in the 2013 reboot.
Claiming he likes to think it’s the third book featured in Army of Darkness that Ash
finds.
Anyway Danny takes this all up to their apartment, and like any dumb teen, opens the book after
accidentally dropping blood on it, and playing the vinyl records.
There are three in total, with the first featuring priests finding the book, and arguing if it
is safe or not.
The second record is where things get dicey, essentially a demon voice begins to read from
the book, causing a deadite to find its way into the apartment building, possessing their
mother Ellie in the elevator.
This elevator sequence looks similar to the tree root sequences from the older Evil Dead
films, with wires twisting her body.
Urban environment, creativity working here people, as Ellie is possessed.
While Ellie is being you know, a little sus…
some other neighbors on the floor are established, all worried because Ellie’s elevator Tower
of Terror incident blew out the power.
Now it’s basically your Evil Dead trapped in a cabin, but trapped in an apartment series
of events, with Ellie attacking everyone.
They lock her outside of the apartment, where she terrorizes all of the neighbors in a really
kickass hallway peephole sequence.
However bad news, Bridget, Ellie’s oldest daughter got some blood in her via a tattoo
gun, annnnddd is now possessed.
This is where it turns into a demented version of Adventures in Babysitting, as Bridget tries
attacking them, but Cassie, the youngest jams a mop handle through her mouth and head.
Yeah, she had taped a doll head to a mop, calling her Staffanie, pun game is unmatched
for the little one.
Ellie trapped in the hallway, Bridget is donezoes for now, so Danny finally comes clean about
the book and records, so Beth steps into the motherly role, and has a listen to record
3.
While listening, she realizes the priests tried everything, and total body dismemberment
was the only solution.
Perfect, they know what to do, but Ellie had snuck in through the vent, now in the apartment,
teaming up with Bridget who is now back up walking around.
Danny sacrifices himself to save the yougest Cassie, as Beth and Cassie make a break for
the elevator, grabbing the neighbor’s shotgun in the process, shooting one of Ellie’s
arms and legs.
#Family is in full effect, Dominic Toretto would be proud, as the possessed Ellie, Bridget,
and Danny morph into what I can only describe as the Rat-King from The Last of Us, truly
horrifying John Carpenter type shit.
The deadites cause the broken elevator to fill with blood, drowning Beth and Cassie,
as it hits the maximum weight limit and crashes down to the parking garage harder and messer
than the kool-aid man bursting into your living room.
The pair try to leave via car, but the monstrosity halts the car.
They try running to the open gate, only for Cassie to be captured at the last second.
Beth, now in full on protective mother mode, goes back in, shooting that some beach with
the shotgun, and picks up a yellow beige chainsaw, embodying the essence of Ash.
Beth revs that puppy up, just tearing through the mutated Ellie and kids, forcing them into
a wood chipper, painting the entire parking garage red.
I mean this is some fucked up shit, buuuuuttt boom, the deadites are gone, as Cassie and
Beth, head off to a hopefully brighter future.
With Beth now being prepared for parenthood, and sorta being the Ash of this hopefully
new series of movies.
BUUUUUTTTTT you remember the group of friends from the opening?
Yep, the final minute or so shows one of the women living in the same apartment building,
different floor, seeing the carnage of the parking garage.
She’s attacked by a rogue deadite, annnnddd then heads off to the camping trip we see
in the beginning.
So we can only assume that someone somewhere is still possessed, and where they wander,
well your guess is as good as mine.
But I will say, this makes me NOT want to ever watch someone’s kids haha.
Now if you are wondering if Evil Dead Rise sets up a whole big ole’ Evil Dead Universe
or #EDU, ummm well no there are no post credits scenes, so it’s okay to pick up your trash
and get outta there.
BUT there is a brief sound effect of a fly buzzing around at the very very verrryyy end
of the credits similar to that of Iron Man’s hammer at the end of Endgame.
Now this isn’t necessarily a set up, but more of a tease of what/if.
And with the way the film was structured, combined with the fact that this is a really
bang up horror movie, I’m sure positive reviews and box office numbers will be the
main indicator of whether or not we see more of these deadites and helpless people in the
woods or condemned apartment buildings.
My money is on more, so fingers crossed.
Of course another thing hardcore Evil Dead are probably curious about is if Bruce Campbell,
aka Ash Williams, with his kickass chainsaw, boom stick, and Groovy catchphrase make an
appearance and the answer iiiiiisssssss…..
No.
Sorry Charlie.
Bruce doesn’t bring the…
Camp….
Bell in this one.
However, if you were listening closely, his voice makes a cameo appearance as one of the
priests on the vinyl records that are played when Danny discovers the Necronomicon.
I think one of the trailers actually has some of the audio of his speaking part I’m sure
people were wanting some more Ash, but Campbell says he unofficially officially has retired
the character after the cancellation of the Ash vs Evil Dead series.
BUT there is a small smidget of hope, because a couple weeks ago, director Lee Cronin mentioned
in an interview that Campbell's priest character was one "that could very well be Ash Williams,
just displaced in time from the events of Army of Darkness.”
So grab your chainsaw because things could get
Honestly, I am not the biggest fan of horror films, maybe I’m slowly getting there, but
holy hell was Evil Dead Rise a claustrophobic, tense, bloody, and I mean bloody, ride of
a horror movie.
I really enjoyed the different setting, and the reasons for why there are only a couple
of people here or there seems plausible to me.
But man, this was like a gruesome horror version of Adventures In Babysitting haha.
Sure the scares are there, with the camera movements adding to the creep factor, but
I appreciated the twisted comedic sequences just as much.
And yeah, I said bloody, this is full on BLOODY.
Director Cronin said they used something like six and a half thousand liters of blood, so
yeah grab your swim trunks and flippy floppies for this one.
I’m throwing a solid 8/10 at this latest Evil Dead installment.
It has a lot of things Evil Dead fans will grasp on to, but the way this movie is, pun
intended, bookended, the cold open is great, wonderfully sets up everything.
While the ending is a full on mash up of John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, and the rat-king
from The Last of Us.
Ultimately it’s a story about mothers, and expecting mothers, and the metaphors really
reinforce this.
The only small negatives I have are some of the delivery from the teens and childs.
And anyone looking for any in your face connective tissue to other moments in the Evil Dead franchise
and world, like Ash for example, are going to be left out in the cold.
Anyway I’d love to hear your thoughts on Evil Dead Rise.
Was this one of the scariest movies you’ve ever seen, and would you like to see more
in this updated landscape of the Evil Dead franchise?
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