When the first Evil Dead Rise trailer landed online back in January, horror fans rushed to social media to comment on one particular moment in the red-band clip: when possessed mother Ellie uses a cheese grater on her sister's leg. Now, director Lee Cronin has "warned" genre lovers that there are plenty more shocking scenes where that came from in the supernatural sequel.
In the new issue of SFX magazine, which features Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves on the cover, the filmmaker explains: "I definitely don't hold back. My own taste is, 'Yes, you're going to see the knife going in.' But it's not torture porn. To me, that's not actually what Evil Dead should be, because what I want to happen is as soon as you've gone, 'Holy shit!' guess what? Something else is about to happen."
