Kieran Battams

I do think this slightly suffers from "identity crisis" if you will by having a concept so good that the execution doesn't quite live up to that promise, but it is a good spy thriller with a nice gimmick that keeps it interesting where others would maybe feel a bit generic regardless of that fact.

The concept on it's own is straight fire sci-fi and the questions of morality around that concept are really interesting to see get explored. One thing I feel not enough people talk about though is how silly it lets itself go at times, Tom Cruise chasing his own eyeballs around as they roll down a drain is comedy gold and to me that just adds an extra layer of enjoyment to an already very solid film that could have and maybe even should have tonally derailed it. Perhaps one of Spielberg's more underrated pictures?

Cruel, sadistic, overwhelmingly gory. Exactly what an Evil dead film should be but also a little bit more because with no exaggeration this is hands down the most deliciously evil the deadites have ever been. Makes Evil Dead Rise look like a Disney film in comparison and I'm saying that as someone who loved how far that film already pushed itself as a mainstream horror blockbuster. Give me *Wrath* immediately please. (Also I just want to flex about the fact Mark Kermode was sat on the row directly behind me at my press screening for this. Admittedly I was too scared to disturb him and say hi, but I finally feel like I'm in the big leagues as a critic now 😎) Full review at Voice Magazine: [www.voicemag.uk/review/16678/film-review-evil-dead-burn](https://www.voicemag.uk/review/16678/film-review-evil-dead-burn)

Couldn't do an Evil Dead binge and not revisit this one because a possessed goat calling someone a whore alone is enough to earn itself the title of honorary sequel to the greatest horror trilogy of all time.