EVIL DEAD RISE Director Discusses Bloody Trailer, Says It’s Only 10% Horrific Experience

The first trailer of The Rise of the Evil Dead was released recently and received a lot of squeamish reactions from fans. It was filled with a variety of horrific and eerie scenes involving cheese graters, chainsaws, a tattoo machine, the Book of the Dead, and something being scalped.

The trailer was loaded with terrifying madness and is only a small fraction of the nightmarish horrors that await audiences. During a recent interview with Empire Magazine, director Lee Cronin talked about the trailer and anticipated the film:

“The ripped scalp is definitely one of my favorites. It burns a little in the eye. It’s a taste. There’s so much more to come – the moments that people respond to, you actually only get 10% of the experience.”

Cronin continued on about the embarrassing scene of the cheese grater being slammed into someone’s leg:

“It’s what I like to call the ‘leg-guine’ scene. They always terrify me when I’m cooking, because it’s so easy you might lose a few knuckles. When I was creating the film, I was just thinking about something… not to mention I didn’t it’s never been used before, but I haven’t seen it myself.”

Then there’s the tattoo machine, which is said to have significance in the film’s narrative, and the director explained how:

“Ellie’s character is a tattoo artist in the story, which brings the tattoo gun into play. I actually have a tattoo on my arm right now which is a terrible stick drawing of one of the death moments in Evil Dead Rise – but I can’t show it yet because we haven’t ruined that real moment.”

Rad. In the film, “a road-weary Beth pays a belated visit to her older sister Ellie, who is raising three children alone in a cramped Los Angeles apartment. The sisters’ reunion is interrupted by the discovery of a mysterious book deep within Ellie’s building, which gives rise to flesh-possessing demons and thrusts Beth into a primal battle for survival as she is faced with the most nightmarish version of motherhood. imaginable.”

The film is produced by Sam Raimi, who previously teased that the film would be “terrifying” and would “sweat people”. Producer Bruce Campbell also said that The Rise of the Evil Dead it will be a “much more heartbreaking” experience emotionally, and you can feel it in this trailer!

The film is the protagonist Alyssa Sutherland (Vikings), Lily Sullivan (Picnic at Hanging Rock).Gabrielle Echols (Reminiscence), Morgan Davis (end), and Nell Fisher (Splendid isolation). The Rise of the Evil Dead is slated to hit theaters on April 21, 2023.