Family can be complicated, but with Evil Dead Burn, it’s more than that. Following the release of an earlier teaser, Warner Bros. has dropped the full-length trailer for Sébastien Vaniček’s forthcoming horror film, alongside the wicked tagline, ‘Family is the root of all evil.’
The 2.5-minute clip opens with a mother sorting out kitchenware, before checking on her daughter in the living room. Almost immediately, his panicking son comes rushing in from the outside, and knocks are heard at the door, revealing an unexpected guest: an undead corpse with severed fingers and a car headrest piercing through her skull. After the revelation of the circumstances behind the accident, the scene cuts back to the Deadite zombie drinking burning candle wax, and a grisly encounter with a knife-filled dishwasher (hello there, Chekhov’s dishwasher) that serves as a clever callback to the nasty use of a cheese grater in 2023’s Evil Dead Rise.
The newly revealed synopsis reads, “After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites — turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell — she comes to discover that the vows she took in life live on… even in death.”
Souheila Yacoub (Dune: Part Two), Hunter Doohan (Wednesday), Lucianne Buchanan (The Night Agent), Tandi Wright (Pearl), and George Pullar (It Only Takes a Night) star in Evil Dead Burn, which is the third standalone entry in the horror universe started by Sam Raimi in 1981. Vaniček wrote the script with Florent Bernand, while franchise veteran and original actor Bruce Campbell, Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin, and Jose Canas serve as executive producers.
The original film followed five friends in a cabin in the woods as they accidentally released horrifying demons, and would later spawn two sequels — 1987’s Evil Dead II and 1992’s Army of Darkness. Evil Dead Burn will ignite the silver screen on 10 July, with a sequel, Evil Dead Wrath, already in development for 2028.
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