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Eric’s Review: Evil Dead Rise (2023)

Eric’s Review: Evil Dead Rise (2023)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★
🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 for constant pervasive gore, grotesque transformations, and severe violence against children

Evil Dead Rise is everything you would want a film in this franchise to be. It gets to the bloody action right from the start, and does not let up once it gets rolling. This incredibly gory film reconstructs the fundamental Evil Dead script in by making it a family-forward story, but it still walks a familiar path.

Eric’s Overlook FF Review: Renfield (2023)

Eric’s Overlook FF Review: Renfield (2023)

★★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
🩸🩸🩸🩸 out of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 for copious amounts of bloodshed, dismemberments, beheadings, exploding bodies, the use of severed limbs as weapons, and eviscerations.

The Dracula tale has never been more fun to watch than in Chris McKay’s Renfield. Nicholas Hoult is the remorseful and downtrodden manservant Renfield who struggles with how to escape servitude from his vile master. Nic Cage is perfectly cast as the dapper and ferocious Count Dracula, mixing a looming malevolence with goofy charm. Universal has found its footing again with its legendary roster of monster films. Renfield mixes full-theater belly laughs with spectacular gory action to create a movie destined to get repeat viewings. Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee would be proud.