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Originally Posted by KCUnited

I too watched Evil Dead Rise recently and thoroughly enjoyed it.

There were some missed opportunities for sure, like zero titties shown when specifically portraying characters as a single mom and an alleged groupie, but I digress.

My initial thought was that it started strong then bogged during the family dynamic setup when I admit my ADHD was like lets just get to the killing shall we?

In retrospect though, that part was really really well done. It was like a nod to single (widowed) mom Lacille LaRusso moving her young son Daniel to a new town in Karate Kid except more current where one kid might be binary, one an aspiring DJ, and a little girl who could've been Drew Barrymore's doppelganger from ET. Anyway, they captured the down on their luck, broken family sticking together throwback vibe of the 80s which we all associate with Evil Dead.

The kids even took moms station wagon out for pizza, which was brilliant, and them dropping it causing it to slide all over the boxes was as horrific as anything else in the movie for someone with OCD.

Brilliantly done and great attention to detail that I didn't fully appreciate at the time.

Them leaving the perfectly edible pizzas after the earthquake was actually the least believable part of the whole movie