Stephen King-Approved Horror Masterpiece Is Leaving Netflix This November

Long gone are the days when the most popular author of our time ruthlessly tore apart horror movies, including his own adaptations. And Stephen King himself has become a teddy bear.

Rarely does a modern horror movie escape his scrutiny, and almost every one is praised. However, there are films that have earned special honor and recognition from the King of Horror.

Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy, like most cult franchises, has been hit by a rollercoaster of reboots. The director of last year's hit film, Evil Dead Rise, is Lee Cronin, author of the Sundance hit The Hole in the Ground.

What Is Evil Dead Rise About?

The events of Evil Dead Rise do not take place in a cabin in the woods, as in the original, but in an ordinary high-rise building. Ellie, her three children, and her sister Beth are trapped in an apartment building. After an earthquake, the stairs to the lower floors collapsed and the elevator broke down.

Worse, Ellie's son Denny has opened the Book of the Dead, the Necronomicon, and brought demons back into our world. Now the isolated family must battle the bloodthirsty undead, who will stop at nothing, even small children.

Evil Dead Rise Is a Successful Reinvention of the Familiar Franchise

Not everyone was happy with the new version of Evil Dead, despite Cronin's best efforts to make a more trashy version of the original. But Stephen King, for example, was delighted. The author called the movie scary and bloody, and he especially liked the chainsaw scene.

The creators of Evil Dead Rise tried to rethink the franchise: the action takes place not in a cabin in the woods, but in a huge Los Angeles, and instead of Ash, the viewer got a whole family of defenseless and broken characters as protagonists.

The authors kept the almost sadistic level of violence and added an interesting subtext to the plot: now it is a story about how a woman goes through nine circles of hell preparing to become a mother.

Evil Dead Rise Is Leaving Netflix

Overall, Evil Dead Rise looks like a grunge work, frankly uncomfortable, shot almost like a perfect music video for alt-rock performers. In a way, Cronin's film was meant to be an alternative, instead of going to theaters, going to streaming services (originally, Evil Dead Rise was planned for release on HBO Max), but the film was given a chance to enter the big theater arena.

But if you haven't watched Evil Dead Rise on streaming yet, you'd better hurry – the horror movie is leaving Netflix on November 23.