Taking to Twitter, writer and director Lee Cronin has announced that Evil Dead Rise, the fifth instalment in the long-running horror franchise, has wrapped filming as well as teasing the amount of bloodshed that fans will be expecting from the next film.
8 months, 1 Covid Lockdown, 6,500 litres of blood, and more memories than my brain can even process. That is a wrap on #EvilDeadRise. Thank you New Zealand, it’s been a blast. Time to head home and cut this beast together. pic.twitter.com/iyah4vEEqL
— Lee Cronin (@curleecronin) October 26, 2021
“8 months, 1 Covid Lockdown, 6,500 [liters] of blood, and more memories than my brain can even process. That is a wrap on #EvilDeadRise. Thank you New Zealand, it’s been a blast. Time to head home and cut this beast together,” his post states.
The synopsis for the film reads: Evil Dead Rise is set to follow two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable. The film has been confirmed to build off the original trilogy, rather than the 2013 reboot, as well as moving out of the woods and into a modern-day urban setting.
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The film, which is being directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), will also star Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan as the two sisters, as well as young actors Morgan Davies (The End), Nell Fisher (Northspur), and Gabrielle Echols (Reminiscence) who will play a trio of siblings, and Mia Challis as an 18-year-old girl obsessed with fashion and social media. Evil Dead Rise is set to be produced by Campbell and franchise creator Sam Raimi.
