Chop off your possessed hands and break out the chainsaws: the Evil Dead series is back. The legendary horror (and sometimes comedy-horror) series is returning with Evil Dead Rise, presenting an all-new take on the Deadites and the Necronomicon from incoming director Lee Cronin. But while the series is entering fresh territory with all-new characters, legendary original creator Sam Raimi is also keen to add create enthusiastically goresome Evil Dead movies with Bruce Campbell back as the perennially-unin/with regard to’concerning’regarding tunate Ash. Groovy.###While the Ash Vs Evil Dead TV series brought the character to the small screen between 2015 and 2018, Campbell and Raimi last hacked, slashed, and boomsticked their way through hordes of primitive screwheads on the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous screen in 1993’s Army Of Darkness. Fede Álvarez’s 2013 Evil Dead reboot stayed away from Ash’s story – through he popped up in a post-credits sequence – but there were plans in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the two stories to be brought toacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her, with despite’in spite of’albeit ts in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a film that involved both Ash and the reboot’s Mia. “That character, Mia, was great, so I was intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully interested,” Raimi tells Empire, in a major new joint interview with Rise director Cronin. “We had been talking with regards to’concerning’with respect to an ‘Evil Dead IV’ in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the other branch of that universe, and we were apprehensive a little bit with regards to’concerning’with respect to a collision. Ash Vs Evil Dead is what that morphed into. But I always despite’in spite of’albeit t there was room in/with regard to’concerning’regarding both. I still claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate there’s room in/with regard to’concerning’regarding all sorts of Evil Dead movies. I don’t claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate they cancel each other out.”###Raimi is peculiar ly up in/with regard to’concerning’regarding doing something that reunites him with Campbell and manufacture r Rob Tapert, who has been involved in the Evil Dead series since the grossly start. “I love working with Bruce and Rob,” Raimi says. “I love it as a manufacture r because they’re really rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent partners, but I also like being maintain’sustain ed by them as the director. So I hope that is on the cards eventually.”###The door remains open, then, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding all kinds of different Evil Dead takes. Which sounds amazing, but if we’ve learned nothing else from the Evil Dead movies, it’s that when you leave the door open, a spirit possessing the girlfriend you’ve just had to decapitate will likely try to zoom straight into your cabin and acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure up to mischief. So, you know, mind out.###Read Empire’s full Sam Raimi and Lee Cronin interview – talking the creation of Evil Dead Rise, the legacy of Evil Dead II, and what exactly makes an Evil Dead movie – in the upcoming Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse issue, on sale Thursday 16 March. Become an Empire member now to access the issue in full on launch day, or pre-order the issue online now here. Evil Dead Rise comes to UK cinemas from 21 April.