We’re back at the theater for another new horror film release — our most anticipated of 2023 — “Evil Dead Rise”. Is it another franchise hit?
There is nothing we can say about our love of Evil Dead that has not already been said by Deadites around the world. So, it was a no-brainer that we were going to give Evil Dead Rise the Special Edition treatment. This is one of our most anticipated movies of the year, and we could not wait to talk about it.
No matter your personal opinion of the movies, there is little arguing that Evil Dead is one of the most consistent horror franchises out there. Through sequels, remakes, and television series, it always delivers a strong product. We had little worries that we were in for a good movie, but that does not mean we did not have some trepidation going in.
One of the things Evil Dead is known for its wacky humor. The latest installment is closer to the 1981 original than the rest of the series. While it has some moments of humor, this is a mean horror movie. We talked about how well this tonal change worked.
We also compare it to the subject of last week’s special edition. Renfield catered to horror fans, while Evil Dead Rise invited in mainstream audiences while having some fan service. The box office results demonstrate how well that worked.
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Last week, we talked about Renfield and why it was a huge success — at least to us.
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Every week AIPT Movie Editor Nathaniel Muir and his cinema partner in crime Blake Heath discuss indie and genre movies you have have never heard of, the ones you cannot hear enough about, and the ones you never want to hear about again.
Episode 270: Bruceploitation Month: ‘The Coffee Table’ (2024)/’Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave’ (1976)
A few weeks ago we talked about The First Omen and how it needed to make cuts in order to avoid an NC-17 rating. Blake brought up an interesting point. What if the movie was horrible and was relying on being over the top to garner word of mouth? And cinema history has shown that an entire film being gross just for the sake of it is not usually a good thing.
The first movie we review this week is The Coffee Table. Quotes from critics talking about how uncomfortable it will make audiences feel uncomfortable. The director has stated he wanted to make a “cruel” film. And there it definitely succeeds with both. But does that make it good? It is one thing to make people watching a feel rethink their positions on things; it is something else entirely when the goal is to just to make people feel ugly.
It can be argued that Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave is just as disgusting, though for completely different reasons. Released just three years after the death of Bruce Lee, the U.S distributors added a tasteless opening and title that have nothing to do with the actual plot. This was simply about capitalizing on someone’s death in the most crass way possible. The fact it stars Bruce K. Lea may be the most sensitive part of it all.
The actual movie has nothing to do with Lee or anything supernatural. It is a straight up action movie about a man trying to find his missing brother. It is filled with the wackiness that is expected of a martial arts movie from the 1970s. Unsurprisingly, it does not live up to anything done by Bruce Lee. The question is, should you spend an hour and a half of your life with it?
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