Evil Dead Rise is an American supernatural horror film written and directed by Lee Cronin. It has been produced by Robert Tapert with Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell serving as executive producers. As you might know, Sam Raimi served as the director of the first three Evil Dead films and is basically the creator of this franchise. With him producing Evil Dead Rise, a sequel to Evil Dead (2013), there were high hopes from this film. Judging from the early reviews, the critics are been fairly impressed by this film which as of now is the highest rated in the franchise with an IMDB score of 7.5 and 89% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is being praised for its ultra-realistic and horrifying gore alongside well placed lore and an engaging plot. This article consists of the plot summary of the film but before we get into that we’ll answer one of the burning questions movie-goers might have.
Does Evil Dead Rise Have A Post Credit Scene?
The concept of post credit scenes have been popularized by the superhero genre of films but it is now being widely used in a lot of genres. However, horror is one genre which has been using post-credits sequences since a long time. Whether it’s one last attempt to scare viewers, a means to deliver a resolution, or a setup for a sequel, many horror films like Dawn of the Dead, Annabelle: Creation, Insidious, Conjuring 3, etc use post-credit scenes.
But Evil Dead franchise has never incorporated them and Evil Dead Rise follows the suit. So yeah, in short, Evil Dead Rise doesn’t have a post credit scene and hence, if you are in a hurry, you do not need to stay back through the credits. From this point on major spoilers follow below, so turn back if you don’t want to get spoiled right now.
ED: Rise Full Plot Summary and Spoilers
The film begins as friends Teresa, Caleb and Jessica are vacationing at a lakeside cabin when an ill Jessica supposedly succumbs to a demonic entity, scalps Teresa with her bare hands, and decapitates Caleb using a drone before levitating in the air while a bleeding Teresa watches on. One day earlier, Beth, a worker in the music industry, visits her sister, single mother Ellie in her apartment complex, along with her children Danny, Bridget and Kassie. When the three children run to get pizza, an earthquake suddenly hits the building and creates a massive hole in the parking lot. Danny investigates the hole, and discovers multiple religious artefacts, along with a vinyl and a strange book that he takes up to his room.
Recordings on the vinyl reveal the book to be the Book of the Dead, formerly researched by priests who were turned down by the church for doing so. As the priests read the incantations within the book, a demonic entity is unleashed, cutting the power to the entire building, and Ellie is viciously attacked in the elevator. Ellie returns to the apartment where she excessively vomits and collapses in front of Beth and the children. Assuming her to be dead, Beth, alongside neighbours Gabriel and Mr. Fonda, lay Ellie to rest in her bedroom. She soon awakens, and now possessed by the demon, attacks the family. Beth and the children are able to lock her out of the apartment when she leaves to brutally murder their neighbors in the hallway, including Gabriel and Mr. Fonda.
Evil Dead Rise continues as Ellie attempts to trick Kassie in to letting her back into the apartment. She attacks her, and Danny takes Kassie to her room as Beth locks the demon back out. Black liquid soon begins oozing out of Bridget’s orifices, and Beth finds a possessed Bridget chewing glass in the kitchen before attacking her with a cheese grater. When she goes to attack Danny and Kassie, Kassie supposedly kills her, with Danny tying her body to the bed. Danny informs Beth about the Book of the Dead, and she listens to the vinyl recordings as Bridget awakens and attacks Danny and Kassie. Bridget overpowers Danny, stabbing him in the chest, but not before Danny lights her on fire, supposedly killing her. Ellie escapes from the hallway through the vents, and attacks Beth in the bedroom as she listens to the recordings.
Kassie throws Beth a pair of scissors which she uses to subdue Ellie, before taking Kassie out into the hallway in an attempt to escape the building. Ellie arrives, along with the now possessed bodies of Danny and Bridget, proclaiming that everyone in the building will be “dead by dawn”. The possessed corpses of the neighbours suddenly awaken, and combine with Ellie, Danny and Bridget to create a spider-like creature, while Beth and Kassie escape through the elevator which overflows with blood, resulting in the elevator falling to ground level and allowing them to escape into the parking lot. Beth and Kassie attempt to escape, but Kassie is abducted by the creature before they can do so.
The creature attempts to kill Kassie with a chainsaw but is interrupted by a returning Beth, who uses the chainsaw to force the creature into a massive wood chipper. When Ellie’s decapitated head taunts Beth, she accepts that her sister is gone, kicking her head into the wood chipper, finally killing the creature, and escaping the building with Kassie. The next day, Jessica, revealed to have been living in the building, leaves for vacation, but discovers the bloodied wood chipper as an unseen demon moves rapidly through the parking lot, and attacks her as she screams in terror. This is where the film ends!
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