‘Evil Dead Rise’ – First Full Clip Unwraps the Franchise’s Third Book of the Dead

John Squires

As you may recall, Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness introduced the idea that there are actually (at least) THREE Necronomicons (aka the “Book of the Dead”) out there in the world, and Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin is playing with that tidbit in this year’s brand new movie.

Cronin recently told SFX Magazine, “There’s direct connectivity between what happens in this story and the others. They’re in the same world – this is not a parallel universe in any way. It’s happening after Fede’s movie, and after Sam’s, but in a world where those stories have taken place.”

“The book that’s in this story is connected back to the past,” he continues. “If we look at Army of Darkness, and at the fact that there’s three books: Sam used one, Fede used one, and I said, ‘Y’know what, give me the third one, and let me go tell an Evil Dead story in that context.”

Unwrap that third “Book of the Dead” in a Cineworld Exclusive first-look clip below…

Director Lee Cronin’s (The Hole in the Ground) Evil Dead Rise is coming exclusively to theaters on April 21, 2023. Gabrielle Echols (Reminiscence), Morgan Davies (The End) and Nell Fisher (Splendid Isolation) star 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.

Ash encounters all three books in ‘Army of Darkness’

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