‘Evil Dead Rise’ – Lee Cronin Explains How the Apartment IS the Cabin in New ‘Evil Dead’ Movie

While the Scream franchise brings Ghostface to New York City in Scream VI this year, the Evil Dead franchise is similarly leaving its most iconic location in the past with its latest movie.

Director Lee Cronin’s (The Hole in the Ground) Evil Dead Rise takes the series to new heights with a sequel set inside an apartment building, and it’s being unleashed on April 21, 2023.

In other words, there won’t be a cabin in the woods this time around. At least not as the film’s main setting. Speaking with Empire Magazine, Cronin teases the fresh new locale.

Cronin says, “To me it felt very natural to make that move. It wasn’t forced in some way of like, ‘We need Evil Dead in the city!’ It was, ‘I want a family, and I want it to be urban’.”

“I still treated it very much the same way,” the filmmaker adds. “I view the apartment as the cabin, and the hallways and the other aspects of the building as the forest.”

What about that shot in the trailer of a strange, triangular building nestled within a creepy wooded area? Cronin is keeping tight-lipped about that mysterious aspect for now.

Cronin teases, “I don’t want to say too much about that. What I can say about the aspect back out in the woods is, it’s all part of the exploration of a bigger universe. And how the evil force can never really be destroyed and can continue to travel and pass.”

Gabrielle Echols (Reminiscence), Morgan Davies (The End) and Nell Fisher (Splendid Isolation) will star in the new movie alongside Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan.

Here’s the official plot synopsis for Evil Dead Rise…

“In the fifth Evil Dead film, a road-weary Beth pays an overdue visit to her older sister Ellie, who is raising three kids on her own in a cramped L.A apartment. The sisters’ reunion is cut short by the discovery of a mysterious book deep in the bowels of Ellie’s building, giving rise to flesh-possessing demons, and thrusting Beth into a primal battle for survival as she is faced with the most nightmarish version of motherhood imaginable.”

Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Robert Tapert are producing Evil Dead Rise. According to Campbell, the three have been “very involved” in the project every step of the way.

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