Two Evil Dead announcements. One week. The franchise is absolutely unhinged right now and we are here for it.
First: Evil Dead Burn hits theaters July 10.
Director Sebastien Vanicek, the guy Sam Raimi personally handpicked after seeing his spider-horror debut Infested, has been very clear about what he made- “A nasty film, a film that hurts, from which you come away tested.” Even Raimi himself reportedly said he doesn’t fully understand it. That is either terrifying or the greatest endorsement in horror history. Probably both.
The story follows Alice (Souheila Yacoub, Dune: Part Two) a grieving widow who retreats to her in-laws secluded home after losing her husband – only for them to be possessed one by one by Deadites.
Family reunion from hell. Literally. The cast includes Hunter Doohan (Wednesday), Luciane Buchanan (The Night Agent), and Tandi Wright (Pearl). It’s the sixth Evil Dead film, a standalone sequel to Evil Dead (2013) and Evil Dead Rise (2023), distributed by Warner Bros.
Now: Evil Dead Wrath is a 1972 prequel – and it sounds completely different.
Producer Rob Tapert dropped this bombshell at Michigan State University- Evil Dead Wrath, directed by Francis Galluppi and already wrapped, is set in 1972 – predating Sam Raimi’s original 1981 film by nearly a decade. It follows a French woman trapped in a bad marriage in America, dismissed by her abusive husband’s family.
Tapert says it will visually replicate Ektachrome 100 film stock, “very warm, very tungsten”, and introduces coming-of-age elements the franchise has never explored. The cast includes Charlotte Hope, Jessica McNamee, and Zach Gilford. Release date- April 7, 2028.
Evil Dead Burn opens July 10. Evil Dead Wrath arrives April 2028. The deadites aren’t going anywhere.
