It’s been 42 years since the initial release of Sam Raimi’s “The Evil Dead,” and audiences are still craving deadite pandemonium, delivered in sequels, video games, comic books, and a television series. Horror returns once again with “Evil Dead Rise,” which isn’t explicitly connected to the 2013 “Evil Dead” remake, but retains the same ruthless spirit of genre engagement, this time taking an outbreak of malevolence to a California apartment building, which, in a way, remains a suitable cabin-in-the-woods replacement. Writer/director Lee Cronin made a strong impression with 2019’s “The Hole in the Ground,” and he sustains promise with this spin-off/remake/thingee, which does some proper “Evil Dead” damage to characters and property, winding the saga up for another satisfying bloodbath with fierce demons and panicky acts of survival. “Evil Dead Rise” is perhaps the darkest chapter of the series, quite literally at times, but Cronin takes the moviemaking challenge seriously, nailing tone and bodily harm with this gore zone event. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com