Sébastien Vaniček aims to burn it all in Evil Dead Burn, as the first French poster makes abundantly clear, fire and flames everywhere.
Sometimes miracles happen in Hollywood, and franchises that propelled artists to fame tend to stay, more or less, under their control. It’s the case with the Evil Dead saga, which in the 1980s launched Sam Raimi, who now shepherds it as a producer through Renaissance Pictures and Ghost House Pictures. The setup has turned the franchise into a sandbox for emerging horror filmmakers, such as Fede Álvarez (the remake, then Don’t Breathe, Alien: Romulus…) and Lee Cronin (Evil Dead Rise, then The Mummy Awakens).
And that’s not the end, because two more films are still slated to hit our screens. The first, Evil Dead Burn, is imminent: its promo kicked off with an intense trailer and now an official French poster. In the director’s chair this time is Sébastien Vaniček, who had won over fans of big monsters on both sides of the Atlantic with his fun Vermines.
Evil Dead Burn everything
After the trailer, the poster follows. The distributors aren’t exactly pushing originality with this death-cry, those glowing embers, and a hand gripping a throat. The tagline is of the same vein: “Every family has its demons.” A family that we glimpse in the distance on an alternate poster revealed on May 5. That imagery at least doubles the pyrotechnic promises, hoping the film will burn as hot as advertised (hello Scream 7).
The family in question belongs to Alice, who has just lost her husband in a car accident. After the funeral, she heads to her in-laws, who will soon undergo a few transformations. The young widow will be played by Souheila Yacoub, seen in Climax, In Body, The Balcony Women and Dune: Part Two. Her would-be assailants are portrayed by Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, and Erroll Shand.
Co-written once again by Florent Bernard, who also handled Vermines, this new installment, unsurprisingly billed as particularly brutal, will hit theaters in the United States on July 8, 2026. As for Evil Dead Wrath, directed by Francis Galluppi, it will arrive on April 5, 2028.
