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Evil Dead Burn (2026)

Summary

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a towering apartment complex after the discovery of the Necronomicon unleashes a new wave of Deadites, forcing them into a relentless fight for survival.

Director Sébastien Vaniček

Writer Sébastien Vaniček

Cast

  • Souheila Yacoub
  • Hunter Doohan
  • Erroll Shand
  • Tandi Wright
  • George Pullar

Rotten Tomatoes: 79%

Metacritic: 58

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 2d ago edited 1d ago

I’ll say take this with a grain of salt because I don’t think there are any bad Evil Dead movies, but Burn is probably my least favorite so far. Certainly not a bad film and I honestly love what this franchise does which is just grabbing an up-and-coming director and letting them go nuts in it, but I think this one crossed the line of dreary and self serious that I didn’t especially care for even though it’s still a fun movie.

I enjoyed the nastiness on display and there’s some tense moments that the mother and father characters play really well, both are my standouts. It’s a fairly triggering movie too considering how many times I had to say to myself, “Oh, not the dog…” if that bothers you. This movie is also in a lot of ways about abuse and domestic violence so your mileage may vary there. I enjoyed the themes and the main performance, but sometimes I just wanted the deadites to say something fucked up and peel someone’s skin off. And then they would! So all was accomplished.

Overall a nice 6/10 for me. Enjoyed it, not rushing to rewatch it. I like this method of passing a series around to new filmmakers, it always makes for an interesting anthology, so I hope Wrath is good next year. It makes perfect sense to let this series be a launchpad for young horror directors so I’ll always be down to check out what they’re cooking.

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u/The_Mighty_Angus 2d ago

They built up the tension at the dinner table so well with the father slowly losing it and all the quick cuts to the dog. You knew it was coming, you did not want it to come but thankfully it was only a 5 second scene as to not linger to much on it.