Review: Deadite Mommie Dearest is a scream in ‘Evil Dead Rise’

Not many horror franchises can keep the red stuff spurting without getting dusty and stale as a pile of bones, but Sam Raimi’s rollicking “Evil Dead” series has spent the last 42 years reanimating itself with persistent aplomb. (See: 1981’s seminal “Evil Dead,” 1987’s campier “Evil Dead II,” 1992’s horror-fantasy “Army of the Dead,” the grimly serious 2013 reboot and Starz’s giddily unserious “Ash vs. Evil Dead.”) Even in its scalp-ripping scream of an opener, the new “Evil Dead Rise” makes a cheeky feint toward the familiar, so you’d be forgiven for expecting more of the same from the fright franchise that’s inspired countless imitators.

A swift change of scenery, however, smartly trades the original’s cabin in the woods setting, now an overdone genre staple, for