Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin took to Twitter to share some new behind-the-scenes photos from the set of New Line Cinema’s latest horror installment to Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead films as filming continues in New Zealand.
The new Evil Dead Rise set photos, which you can check out below, tease fans of blood and carnage, confirming that the upcoming installment will still remain faithful to the franchise’s famous gore and violence, despite no longer taking place in a cabin in the woods. One of the photos also features an Evil Dead II Easter egg, with a Henrietta pizza box paying tribute to one of the sequel’s iconic Deadites, Henrietta Knowby.
That was a day. #EvilDeadRise pic.twitter.com/FO0GYNxYw4
— Lee Cronin (@curleecronin) August 4, 2021
Damn kids never clean up the kitchen. #EvilDeadRise. pic.twitter.com/eaTn87aj3h
— Lee Cronin (@curleecronin) July 21, 2021
What’s in the box? #EvilDeadRise pic.twitter.com/usbbmwI960
— Lee Cronin (@curleecronin) July 29, 2021
Lunchtime #EvilDeadRise pic.twitter.com/e5GbEUff7q
— Lee Cronin (@curleecronin) July 23, 2021
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Evil Dead Rise will be led by Alyssa Sutherland (Vikings) and Lily Sullivan (Picnic at Hanging Rock) along with Gabrielle Echols (Reminiscence), Morgan Davies (The Girlfriend Experience), and Nell Fisher (Northspur). Executive producer and franchise star Bruce Campbell previously confirmed that the upcoming film wouldn’t have any ties to the previous films and will mainly center around the Necronomicon.
The fifth installment is expected to tell a modern-day urban horror film that will take the franchise out of its classic woods setting and into the city for the first time. The movie will tell the twisted tale of 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.
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Evil Dead Rise is being written and directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole In The Ground), who was handpicked by franchise creator Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and Robert Tapert. It is executive produced by Raimi, Campbell, Tapert, Romel Adam, John Keville, and Macdara Kelleher.
The fifth installment is set to be released on HBO Max in 2022.
