“Evil Dead Rise” might not be able to vanquish the soon-to-three-peat box office champion “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” but the horror entry is still chainsawing off its own solid opening on domestic charts.
The Warner Bros. release earned $10.3 million from 3,402 locations on Friday, a figure that includes $2.5 million in previews. That’s an auspicious start for the horror entry, which now has a strong chance of outperforming its projections, which had pegged the film with a $15 million to $20 million debut heading into the weekend.
The fifth installment in the outlandish horror franchise created by Sam Raimi, “Evil Dead Rise” stars Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland as estranged sisters who try to keep their family safe from a new crop of demons. The film’s cast also includes Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols and Nell Fisher. It’s received favorable reviews, currently sitting at 85% on Rotten Tomatoes. In his Variety review, Joe Leydon called it “potently claustrophobic and gasp-inducingly shocking.”
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