Sébastien Vaniček literally unleashes the hounds in the first teaser of Evil Dead Burn, the highly anticipated new entry in Sam Raimi’s saga.
Since its grand return in 2013, the Evil Dead franchise has been thriving at the box office. The remake by Fede Álvarez had easily recouped its $17 million budget. As for Evil Dead Rise, it had performed even better with $147 million in receipts. Sam Raimi, who created the saga in the 1980s, and his co-producer Rob Tapert had no reason to close the Book of the Dead. They even take obvious pleasure in entrusting it to up-and-coming genre filmmakers.
The upcoming installment is titled Evil Dead Burn and is directed by Sébastien Vaniček, the French filmmaker behind the spider-themed Vermines. The trailer and the promos had already promised some pretty grim visual ideas, and the first excerpt drives that point home. In a figurative sense this time.
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How do you announce a bloodbath without restricting access to the video? Proof with this clip that pairs a close-up of hot wax being poured, a fight and a tumble down the stairs ending in an anatomically questionable position… without spilling a single drop of blood. The first trailer, shot in a ground-level single take, was already a technical showcase, and this sequence once again spotlights a fluid direction, following the characters’ misadventures with a long aerial tracking shot.
Among those present, we can spot Thya (Luciane Buchanan), the thirsty deadite, Susan (Tandi Wright), whom she pounces on, Joseph (Hunter Doohan), Edgar (Erroll Shand), the deadite patient, and Alice (Souheila Yacoub), whose husband has died. It is after his funeral that she visited her in-laws’ house in his honor, but based on these images, they didn’t just have a drink. Also notable is the final appearance of a threatening dog. The director is no stranger to working with animals, as his best-known short, the charming Crocs, explored canine combat and its victims.
To see what comes next, you’ll have to wait until July 8, 2026, the film’s release date in France. And there’s more to come: the next installment, Evil Dead Wrath, has just wrapped shooting under the direction of Francis Galluppi. Release is planned for April 5, 2028.
