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\"\"Evil Dead Burn<\/strong> (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Line\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 110 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong bloody horror violence and gore, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Sebastien Vanicek\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Sebastien Vanicek and Florent Bernard\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Double Danger\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Philip Lozano\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: July 10, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Erroll Shand, Maude Davey, George Pullar, Tapiwa Soropa, Keanu Karim, Victory Ndukwe, Greta Van Den Brink.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0How you feel about Evil Dead Burn<\/strong> depends on whether or not you saw Sam Raimi\u2019s original trilogy. If you haven\u2019t, you\u2019ll like it more than those who have. I expect a lot of young people in attendance have only seen the more recent installments, Evil Dead (2013) and Evil Dead Rise (2023). The newer movies are fine, but it\u2019s impossible to top the Raimi ones. They\u2019re in a class of their own. That being said, I did like Evil Dead Burn<\/strong>. That is to say, I liked it as long as I didn\u2019t think about the OGs.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Before I proceed, let me clear a little something up. Evil Dead Burn<\/strong> is being described as a \u201cstandalone sequel\u201d. It is to a certain degree. The main story has no connection to the previous films. However, the opening scene does. A couple of guys are out fishing on a familiar lake when they encounter the Deadite Jessica (Brink) from Rise. She proceeds to kill them before heading to a nearby road to wait for somebody.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The person Jessica is looking for turns out to be Will (Pullar, It Only Takes a Night), an aggressive type who drunkenly leaves the restaurant he owns with his French wife Alice (Yacoub, Climax) after a heated argument at his younger brother Joseph\u2019s (Doohan, Wednesday) birthday celebration. He literally runs into Jessica and is killed. Or so it seems.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Alice shows up for her late hubby\u2019s cremation service where she\u2019s not warmly received by her in-laws. His parents Susan (Wright, Pearl) and Edgar (Shand, Chief of War) blame her for the crash that killed him. The only problem is that Will isn\u2019t exactly dead. He\u2019s a Deadite now and he passes it along to his dad when he stops by the cremation room to say a final private goodbye. They all go back to the family cabin where Edgar starts to shows signs of possession. He starts by killing the family dog and it only gets worse from there.<\/p>\n

\u00a0So why did Jessica go after Will specifically? It has to do with Joseph, a writer working on a book about his late grandfather and his involvement with a group called The Circle of Wise Men. He finds among his possession a dagger that the Deadites want. It\u2019s the only thing that can kill them. They will stop at nothing to get it. Also, as if things weren\u2019t bad enough, Alice finds the Necronomicon and reads from it which only stirs things up more.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Remember when I said I enjoyed Evil Dead Burn<\/strong> as long as I didn\u2019t think of the Raimi ones? Well, director Sebastien Vanicek (Infested) makes it kind of hard not to. The French filmmaker keeps repeating the same visual beats, especially the wild camerawork. What once felt fresh and exciting now feels commonplace. I know the rapidly moving through the woods shots are trademarks of the series, but it isn\u2019t as thrilling as it was 40 years ago. Still, that\u2019s not Vanicek\u2019s biggest slip-up. Where\u2019s the humor? Raimi has a gift for injecting comedy into bloody horror. He did it brilliantly with Evil Dead 2 (1987). This one, while still extremely gory, is decidedly grim. It\u2019s weighed down by its more serious themes- i.e. spousal abuse, enabling parents and toxic family dynamics. Then there\u2019s the killing of the dog. That just bummed me out.<\/p>\n

\u00a0On the upside, Evil Dead Burn<\/strong> tells a pretty good story. If taken on its own terms, it\u2019s not bad. While it contains serious themes, it\u2019s not actually defined by them. It\u2019s not meant to be a metaphor like last month\u2019s Leviticus. It\u2019s just a bloody horror film about a heroine fighting the undead in a bloody battle for survival. The gore is plentiful which strikes me as interesting. This one managed an R rating while the makers of Obsession were forced to trim a few seconds of one scene to avoid an NC-17. The older I get, the less I understand the MPA ratings board. ANYWAY, Evil Dead Burn<\/strong> is the kind of balls-out horror flick we don\u2019t see a lot of these days.<\/p>\n

\u00a0One thing I can say in Vanicek\u2019s favor is that he relies more on old school practical effects than CGI. It has a few digital enhancements here and there, but it\u2019s mostly the work of actual makeup artists. Evil Dead Burn<\/strong> takes an extreme approach to the violence and gore. Some call it \u201cnew school French extremity\u201d much like High Tension (2003) and Martyrs (2008). Well, I like it. It\u2019s brutal, bloody and relentless.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The acting is pretty decent. By that, I mean the actors deliver the performances called for by the material. The standout is lead actress Yacoub. She\u2019s pretty bad ass and she knows her way around a power tool. Maude Davey (The Newsreader) brings a little levity as the dementia-suffering grandmother who thinks her granddaughter-in-law is a thief. She has a painful encounter with a stair lift. Shand is sufficiently hateful as the dog-killing dad. Wright, just like her character in Pearl, takes bad mom to a new level. She starts out passive-aggressive and graduates to aggressive.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Evil Dead Burn<\/strong> is damn good for a midsummer horror film not meant to be taken seriously if it takes itself that way at times. It struggles with tone, but ultimately emerges as a solid Friday or Saturday night scary movie. It still doesn\u2019t have anything on the Sam Raimi ones. Be sure to stick around for a mid-credits scene and an end credits one. The latter is totally worth it. \"\"<\/p>\n

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