Evil Dead Rise Completes Filming, Used 6,500 Liters Of Fake Blood

Evil Dead Rise, the latest film in the Evil Dead series, has completed filming after a process drawn out by COVID, and is ready to head into post-production. As you might expect from an Evil Dead production, the movie used a lot of blood, according to a tweet from director Lee Cronin. Like, a lot.

"8 months, 1 COVID lockdown, 6,500 litres of blood, and more memories than my brain can even process," Cronin wrote in a tweet. "That is a wrap on #EvilDeadRise. Thank you New Zealand, it's been a blast."

Information about Evil Dead Rise is light. Bruce Campbell, who has been the face of all Evil Dead material with the exception of the 2013 film, does not appear in the film, and the story is set in the city rather than the cabin that most of the other Evil Dead movies have used as a setting. Here's the official synopsis for the film:

"In Evil Dead Rise, a road-weary Beth pays an overdue visit to her older sister Ellie, who is raising three kids on her own in a cramped L.A apartment. The sisters’ reunion is cut short by the discovery of a mysterious book deep in the bowels of Ellie’s building, giving rise to flesh-possessing demons, and thrusting Beth into a primal battle for survival as she is faced with the most nightmarish version of motherhood imaginable."

The film will star Lily Sullivan as Beth and Alyssa Sutherland as Ellie. Lee Cronin both wrote and directed the film, and Sam Raimi is producing the movie alongside Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell.

Like the upcoming Batgirl film, Evil Dead Rise is headed exclusively to HBO Max with an expected release sometime in 2022. A multiplayer game based on Evil Dead is also headed for PC sometime in 2022.