10 Exact Moments Recent Horror Movies Won Us Over
7. The Deadites Take Control Of Ellie - Evil Dead Rise
Cult classic Evil Dead is one of the most beloved horror franchises of all time. Accordingly, the pressure riding on the franchise's latest installment - 2023's Evil Dead Rise - was considerable. Focusing on a single-parent family in a Los Angeles apartment complex, Rise's early goings gave cause for concern, in that they weren't...very good?
The introductory lake scene was Evil Dead at its ungodly best, but the subsequent sequences fleshing out the family's backstory felt like they had been taken from a completely different film. Furthermore, the Naturom Demonto's discovery felt exceedingly hokey. The book is discovered in a hidden vault in the building's basement, conveniently revealed after an earthquake cracks the foundations.
This didn't feel like a true Evil Dead effort until the moment that Alyssa Sutherland's Ellie takes the reins. The first subject possessed by the Deadites, Ellie's sister and children are confronted with the ghastly visual of her cooking a pan full of broken eggshells in the darkness. Staring blankly ahead with blinking, Ellie whispers softly to her family:
"It was a perfect day and all I could think about was how much I wanted to cut you all open and climb inside your bodies so that we could stay one happy family."
That's before she even gets started with the demonic crawling and industrial quantities of white bile - the exact moment Evil Dead truly announced its return.