'Evil Dead Burn' Sets a Family Reunion on Fire This July
The Necronomicon is back, and this time it crashes a grieving family's reunion. New Line Cinema has dropped the first full trailer and official poster for Evil Dead Burn, the next entry in one of horror's most relentless franchises — and the early word is that it might be the goriest one yet. It hits theaters July 10.
A Reunion From Hell
Evil Dead Burn follows Alice, a widow who retreats to her late husband's isolated family home in search of comfort after his death. What she finds instead is the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis — and once those pages are read aloud, the gathering curdles into what the studio is openly calling "a family reunion from hell." One by one, the relatives surrounding her begin transforming into Deadites, and the warm refuge becomes a locked-room slaughterhouse.
The official poster leans hard into the franchise's brand of intimate terror: a screaming, blood-streaked face clutched by a clawed Deadite hand, with the tagline "Every family has its demons." It's a fitting promise for a series that has always been at its best when the monsters are the people you love.
New Faces, Familiar Blood
Stepping behind the camera is Sébastien Vaniček, the French filmmaker who made waves with the creature-feature thriller Infested. He co-wrote the script with Florent Bernard, and the cast is led by Souheila Yacoub as Alice, alongside Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Erroll Shand, Maude Davey, George Pullar, and Greta Van Den Brink.
Crucially, the franchise's guardians are still steering the ship. Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert produce through Ghost House Pictures, with original Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin serving as executive producers. That continuity matters — it's the same creative DNA that has kept this series feeling dangerous across more than four decades.
Why This One Matters
Evil Dead Burn arrives as the sixth installment overall and the third standalone chapter following the 2013 reboot and 2023's Evil Dead Rise. That last entry was a genuine success, pulling in roughly $147 million worldwide and proving there's a hungry audience for new takes that abandon the cabin-in-the-woods template in favor of fresh, claustrophobic settings.
Early trailer reactions have zeroed in on the practical, grotesque carnage — the kind of relentless, in-your-face horror that built this franchise's reputation in the first place. Handing the reins to a director like Vaniček, who understands how to wring dread out of confined spaces, suggests Burn is aiming to be more than a brand-name retread.
And the Evil Dead engine isn't slowing down. A separate entry, Evil Dead Wrath from director Francis Galluppi, is also in the works, signaling that the studio sees this as a series with plenty of road left.
The Verdict
If the trailer delivers on its promise, Evil Dead Burn could be the summer's nastiest theatrical scare — a tight, grief-soaked nightmare that turns the comfort of family into a curse. Mark July 10 on the calendar, and maybe skip the family get-together that weekend.
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