Joey Magidson
Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we have the latest Evil Dead film hitting shelves in Evil Dead Rise. Joining that title this week is Kevin Smith‘s Mallrats in 4K, a new Criterion Collection box set, and more. Read on to see what…
Evil Dead Rise
The Evil Dead franchise lives! A more modern feeling effort, it still has some of the dark comedy that made the earlier entries so iconic. Effective horror is easy to appreciate, which makes this one of the more satisfying genre flicks of the year so far. My review here included the following:
There are two types of Evil Dead projects. There are the serious ones and there are the ones with their tongues planted in their bloody cheeks. Now, the serious gore outweighs the silly gore, but there’s an interesting middle ground to be found with Evil Dead Rise. It’s not meant to be funny, but there’s a sense of fun and play, as well as elevated stakes, on display that make it one of the better installments in the franchise to date. Lean, mean, and ruthlessly efficient, this film has teeth.
Evil Dead Rise is a cut above due to the acting, the practical effects, and the impactful story that is far more than just an excuse for viscera. Now, if it had just been that, few would have been upset. However, the reason this flick is getting such a strong reception is that it aims higher. Without ever ignoring what’s been locked into the DNA of the franchise, the creativity here goes in a new and exciting direction.
Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World
Irreversible
Mallrats (in 4K)
Paolini 101
From The Criterion Collection: “One of the most original and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century, Italian polymath Pier Paolo Pasolini embodied a multitude of often seemingly contradictory ideologies and identities—and he expressed them all in his provocative, lyrical, and indelible films. Relentlessly concerned with society’s downtrodden and marginalized, he elevated pimps, hustlers, sex workers, and vagabonds to the realm of saints, while depicting actual saints with a radical earthiness. Traversing the sacred and the profane, the ancient and the modern, the mythic and the personal, the nine uncompromising, often scandal-inciting features he made in the 1960s still stand—on this, the 101st anniversary of his birth—as a monument to his daring vision of cinema as a form of resistance.”
Stay tuned for more next week…
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