Quite understandably, major studios didn’t want to schedule any new releases for the weekend between “The Odyssey” and “Spider-Man: Brand New Day.”

I had to go down past fifth place at the domestic box office to find some also-rans that I hadn’t reviewed yet.

“Evil Dead” is a horror franchise that started out low-budget and schlocky in the ’80s, and has grown to be trusted with more resources as its films take themselves more seriously.

It sounds like a welcome form of maturity, but it isn’t. The films aren’t fun anymore, and “Evil Dead Burn,” which insists on wedging a domestic violence storyline into its gross-out horror narrative, is the least fun yet.

Alice (Souheila Yacoub) was married to the abusive William Price (George Pullar) until he was killed by a Deadite, an evil entity that sometimes kills people, and sometimes turns them into........

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