Evil Dead Rise | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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What is the rotten tomato score for Evil Dead Rise? ›

Evil Dead Rise currently sports a 96 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, the best score of the entire Evil Dead franchise. The original The Evil Dead (1981) has an 85 percent, Evil Dead II (1987) has an 88 percent, Army of Darkness (1992) has a 69 percent, and Evil Dead (2013) has a 63 percent.

To date, Leave No Trace holds the site's record, with a rating of 100% and 252 positive reviews.

Evil Dead Rise, the fifth film in the franchise, is now streaming on Max and arrives on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. The critically acclaimed New York-set supernatural horror has grossed $146.3 million against a budget of between $15 million and $19 million.

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On the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, films that have exclusively positive reviews and have been reviewed by at least five critics have a 100% approval rating.

When less than 60% of reviews for a movie or TV show are positive, a green splat is displayed to indicate its Rotten status. When there is no Tomatometer® score available, which could be because the Title hasn't released yet or there are not enough ratings to generate a score.

Citizen Kane (1941), starring and directed by Orson Welles, has topped several international polls, including five consecutive decades at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound decennial poll of critics.

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The Evil Dead movies always had simple stories, but this one feels like there is even less going on than usual. A family gets trapped in a building and deadites stalk them. Nothing really creative or memorable happens. I didn't even feel any tension, let alone actual fear.

How much blood is in Evil Dead Rise? ›

Lee Cronin is very particular about blood. Cronin, the Irish writer and director of “Evil Dead Rise,” the fifth feature installment in the cult horror series, lights up when discussing gore on set. “We used 6,500 liters [1,717 gallons] of blood on the movie,” he said. “That is real, sticky, cooked movie blood.

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Other recent series with multiple seasons in the 100% club: The Good Place, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, One Day at a Time, Veep, Fleabag, Jane the Virgin, and Feel Good. Only Murders in the Building season 1 has the most reviews on its perfect 100% score.

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As the reviews of a given film accumulate, the Rotten Tomatoes score measures the percentage that are more positive than negative, and assigns an overall fresh or rotten rating to the movie. Scores of over 60 percent are considered fresh, and scores of 59 percent and under are rotten.

A high rating on Rotten Tomatoes is good. The scores range from 0% to 100%, one hundred being the best and zero being the worst. If a movie's score is equal to or above 60%, the movie is considered “fresh”, while if it is below 60% it is considered “rotten”.

Because it's “relatively” easy to get a 100% score after that first handful of reviews (five is the minimum count for a movie to get its Tomatometer), every film listed here has at least crossed the Certified Fresh threshold. Then we sorted them by movies with more reviews featured higher up.