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A poor excuse to call trash, “Art” really? Creating a subjective film with no concrete narrative is just stupid. The more you try and understand it, the more frustrating it is, because ultimately it just wants to rattle your brain, there’s no foundation for it to lay on, it plays out like a wannabe Shakespeare horror movie, it speaks oddly and shows unnecessary imagery and tries to say something about Marital problems, and it tries to do it in an artsy way as if it’s a blank canvas that someone just splashed as bunch of paint on and called it art. Sure Doing that Art can be created, but most of the time and in this case, it’s just a canvas with splattered paint, with no direction or at the end of the day point to it, although I’m sure some of you will over reach and say their is, which I would say is over reaching. I’m all for a film that has something to say and that is controversial but wanting to be that type of film and “Being That Film is two different things. You don’t just get to create a movie with those ideas only in mind or it doesn’t work. Which is clearly what this movie was trying to do and for sheep out their it’s considered art and a cult classic, when in reality this is just garbage someone picked out of the trash and decided to call it a treasure, when really they should just throw it away for good.

Intriguing to begin with and then it boils into blurry water, and it becomes boring, there is not enough here to keep the majority of audiences entertained once the mystery is revealed. And while I ll admit the ending is a bit of twisty punch to the gut, it also seems to have dragged for all it was trying to convey. 2 stars. Unimaginative and once the the reveal, pretty basic with a little gutsy twist at the end. I’d skip a Netflix movie night with this. I get the movie was trying to have some social commentary but just because a movie tries to do that, doesn’t mean it always succeeds, it’s not as smart as it thinks.

2.5. I feel like it’s not quite even good enough to give it 3 stars but not quite bad enough to just give it 2 stars. The last Scream (2022) may have been my favorite one yet, or at least near the top, this one is on the bottom and I felt like it had more of a resemblance to scream 3 than 2. Scream 3 was at the bottom for me, this one may even be lower. I felt like Scream 2022’s screenplay was so knife sharp written and when compared to Scream 6, there isn’t even a comparison. I felt like the last one gave you more thrills and reasons for wanting the characters to press on. How Scream 2022 handled Gale weathers at the end was amazing, she seemed tired of the cheap stories about Woodsboro and to me seemed since Dewie died like she had a change of heart, this one she is back to her old self but seems even more cold than before and unrealistic to be honest. I was very sad to see Gale seem so bland compared to the last sequel, I hated the scene where she is confronted with the carpenter sisters, it didn’t add up to me given what they all had been through in the last one, this whole entry to me felt like it was off and sorry to say to the directors but I feel like you guys just did this one for the box office, which surprises me you would do that, when the character Amber” from the last one said “ We wanted to make sure this wasn’t just another run of the mill cash grab bull stick sequel. And sorry but that’s what it feels like you guys have done with this one. While it’s not a bad horror movie, it’s very bland compared to what you did before, their was no moments of cheer or sadness or laughter or even much scares, and I was in a theatre full of people and nobody reacted the way they did when I saw Scream (2022) I don’t know how this one is getting so much praise and as much I’d like to praise it and I planned on loving it since the you guys set the bar so high with the last one, I got to be honest and say I was let down, and this sequel is stale. And their are much sharper knife entries in this franchise, surprised you guys could do such an amazing film with the last and the writing and dialogue and suspense was so good and this one is just so not that. It felt like a very lazy version of what I know the new scream franchise is capable of. I think if your going to do scream 7, you need to have whoever wrote the fifth film write it, because to me it’s obvious it wasn’t written by the same people or person. The ideas are weak in this one and feel rushed. You haven’t ran this franchise into the ground with just one bland sequel but if you make another lazy attempt with scream 7 you could do it in, like what David Gordon Green did with the Halloween franchise which is destroyed now. Granted his 2018 version wasn’t anything special to begin with, his felt bland to begin with, Scream 2022 had a rocket start, but with this one couldn’t seem to kick into high gear. Do better with Scream 7, I think it’s time you come up with a more creative motive next time, as much as I love Scream 2022 - the motive was weak, and the motive in this one, feels like you guys came up with it on the drawing board within 15 minutes of drinking coffee and eating bagels. Much respect to what you guys have done before this, really hoping you get back on track. Don’t kill this franchise.

I loved the last evil dead, the last evil dead with Jane Levy was exceptional, it was thought provoking, thrilling, scary and it had undertones about personal demons that the Mia character confronts as well as real ones. I got to say I didn’t think this would top it and I was right. It didn’t even come close to the 2013 version. I will give credit and say it did feel very much like an evil dead movie. Lee Cronin captured the atmospheric tone perfectly. It reminded me a bit more of the older evil dead movies versus the 2013 one. Which isn’t a popular opinion. Lots of critics have said it’s more like Evil Dead 2013. I’d argue and say “No”. It’s definitely got more of the slapstick craziness too it, not that evil dead 2013 didn’t at times but the 2013 version feels a bit more serious in tone and to me I found that more frightening, than the hokey ness of this one and the ones with Ash. I would say there were some really cringe moments in this movie and I won’t say it isn’t frightening. But for me I realized watching this I don’t like horror movies that deal with nice people in a close knit family being possessed and attacked by demons. It’s a little much. I found it a bit distasteful. Probably my fault, I knew what I was going to watch but at the same time, I had hope that Cronin would somehow pull it off without it being in poor taste. But honestly, when others in the theatre we”re laughing at the demonic family, I was disturbed and saddened by watching a family be destroyed by such evil. I guess I didn’t see much redeeming qualities and I felt the ending was unoriginal and lacked depth. Evil dead 2013 landed the ending perfectly and felt so gratifying. This movie did not feel gratifying as much as I felt sorry for the survivors. I thought with the twists and turns the 2013 version had, this one might have some as well, but it felt like no new trails made. Making it a family instead of young friends at a cabin, doesn’t make it original in my opinion. Now that I’ve watched it and heard from others about how others call it Originality, I call sort of a cop out. I didn’t expect it to be as good as the last one, but I think I sort of expected it to better than it was. I can’t say its terrible if you are a die hard Evil dead fan. There’s plenty of throwbacks to the 80’s Evil dead(s). And it is scary and cringy at times. But not always in the best way. But it is an Evil Dead Movie, so Cronin did the job if that’s all he was going for, Raimi supposedly handpicked him to create an evil dead story, and he did it his way and this so Raimi can’t complain, not that he is. The positives are Lee is a fantastic director and I love how he incorporated a little back story in the beginning, he knows how to get you invested, but what’s the point of being invested if it feels like it doesn’t go anywhere. He execution and creativity I think could’ve been more inspiring, but he succeeds admirably at direction, camera work, and The actors he choose are all really on their game. And he does know how to make a scary movie technical wise. The ambiance of the film is scary gorgeous, it’s clear he’s talented in the regard of directing and editing, plus the dialogue and wise lines are on point as well. He’s got the means to be one of the best directors in Hollywood. Just because I don’t think he succeeded admirably at this one, doesn’t mean I don’t think he’s got mad chops and is probably one day going to blow it out of the water with something. I’m sure he will rise to fame, but Evil Dead Rise, I don’t think is it sadly.