Not only is the legacy franchise doing away with the cabin-in-the-woods conceit, but they are keeping things among family rather than friends. "The Evil Dead are going to f*** up a city this time," he blurted to a crowd at the Mahoning Drive-In Theater last year. Shooting on the film wrapped in October, and by then it had already been teased that the story would move to a less rural setting - by Bruce Campbell, in true Bruce Campbell fashion. The sisters' reunion is cut short by the discovery of a mysterious book deep in the bowels of Ellie's building, giving rise to flesh-possessing demons, and thrusting Beth into a primal battle for survival as she is faced with the most nightmarish version of motherhood imaginable. In "Evil Dead Rise," a road-weary Beth pays an overdue visit to her older sister Ellie (Sutherland), who is raising three kids on her own in a cramped L.A apartment. Now this is all, they're all related in this household. Because in the original Evil Dead, there was only one brother/sister combo, Ash and his sister Sheryl. I think that makes the possession and killing your siblings – things like that, even harder.
So yeah, it's a family affair, this one's a family affair. Brothers and sisters, sons, daughters, you know. This family is not the same at the end of the movie. So this book just keeps popping up, so really it's just another story of what happens if this book appears in this particular group of people's lives and how it intersects. Passed along, people try and get rid of it, they try to bury it or destroy it and they really can't.
Speaking to German genre outlet Blair, Campbell gives an update on "Evil Dead Rise": "It's a single mom who now has to deal with this book. Tapert and his production company with Raimi, Ghost House Pictures, to bring a new tale of the evil and the dead to HBO Max.
Evil Dead" kept the story going in a television series format for three seasons, and now "The Hole in the Ground" director Lee Cronin teams up with original "Evil Dead" producer Robert G. It spawned two feature sequels, "Evil Dead II" and "Army of Darkness," and a gnarly reboot from Fede Alvarez in 2013. Starring Bruce Campbell as the undead-battling Ash, Sam Raimi's gruesome "Evil Dead" was a scrappy production that eventually landed on the radars of the distributor for "Night of the Living Dead," the Cannes Film Festival, Stephen King, and Fangoria magazine, becoming a sleeper hit. "Evil Dead Rise" is the latest on a collection of movies first dropping in 1981. A new entry in the beloved "Evil Dead" franchise inches closer, and today we've learned that women and children get in on the mayhem.