In the run-up to its release, much has been made about Evil Dead Rise's gore. Hardly surprising, really, given its blood-soaked red-band trailer and that cheese grater moment that went viral as soon as the clip emerged online. But writer-director Lee Cronin is keen for horror fans to know that it's just as fun as it is ultra violent – and has more in common with Sam Raimi's campy Evil Dead II than any other film in the long-running franchise.
"Evil Dead, I don't want to say 'mean-spirited' because that sounds negative, but it does have a mean streak running through it," Cronin says of Fede Álvarez's bleaker 2013 reboot in a new interview with Total Film and GamesRadar+. "I didn't write any jokes for this film, except maybe some of the one liners, that [Deadite] Ellie comes out with; I was confident people might have fun with those.
