Vibrant and colourful visuals, amazing and distinct set design, an interesting premise with a little girl hiring a hitman to kill the monster under her bed and Mads Mikkelson as the Hitman. It’s an incredibly imaginative, quirky, creative and playful film. It’s brought down by an unfortunately poor pacing and a real lack of action set pieces. For a film on hitmen, it really needed a bit more action to really sell the film and world itself. Still worth watching for how surreal the film is.
Evil Dead Burn still retains the enjoyable deadite action, gore and violence. However, it is without a doubt the weakest of the entire franchise. It lacks a charming main character that you can root for like Ash in the original Evil Dead trilogy. It lacks an entertaining performance like Jane Levy in Evil 2013 and Alyssa Sutherland in Evil Dead Rise. Furthermore, it is just so overly grim with its exploration of family trauma and domestic abuse. Couldn’t care less about any of the characters in this film. These modern Evil Dead films are starting to lack the fun comedic elements of what made the original so entertaining. I hope they bring this element back for the next entry!