Evil Dead Burn was released in theaters on July 10, 2026.
Evil Dead Burn brings the blood and guts… but forgets the heart
Tthis is the biggest problem with Evil Burn that’s not the case Really A Evil death movie. Rather, it is a combination of Demons And August Osage Countybut if a studio has high-profile pre-existing intellectual property in its assets, it might as well use them.
Director Sébastien Vanicek is obviously more influenced by the French bloodbaths of the beginning of the millennium like Martyrs And High voltage that he is Sam Raimi. Which makes sense since Vanicek East a French filmmaker and everything. Evil Burn is only his second feature film (after 2023 Infested) and his vision of the Deadite formula is… unorthodoxthat’s the least we can say.
Now I will officially declare that I was not fan of 2013 Evil death redo/restart. And honestly, I can’t even remember all about Rise of the Evil Dead (and it only came out a few years ago.) Spiritually, Evil Burn is much, MUCH closer in tone to those not directed by Raimi Evil death films than the OG trilogy. And it will be your singular indicator of the subjective quality of this film. If you liked the last two Evil death theatrical releases, you’ll probably like this one. But if you liked The evil deaths films with Bruce Campbell? Yeah, maybe it’s not your thing at all.
It is a film which try tell a family drama in the myth of Bad guys dead. But the film commits a gargantuan misstep by virtually each character in the film — even the heroine! – quite unlikable, even downright detestable. There’s no one to cheer for, no one to cheer for, no one to root for hope escapes all the carnage. And when you’re in a total state of mind, paint the walls red, extravagance of bloodshed, lack of any identifiable and/or likeable characters really doom the whole thing tonally. There’s no one who really connects as the self-insert character, the character you are supposed to experience the film vicariously. And when you just don’t care whether the characters are disemboweled or not, the carnage that ensues is little more than seasonal haunted house attraction kitsch. These are just special effects, and the viewer is without risk far from everything.
Evil Burn is a bloody film but not really visceral. You don’t do it feel the terror or pain or paranoia of its characters; in fact, the only a truly human emotion this movie makes you feel exhausted. By the end, I felt like I was taking a two-hour tour of a slaughterhouse. And even exposed intestines and spinal impalements start to feel old after a while.
The film begins with two cannon fodder characters brutally eviscerated in a lake (uh, spoiler, I guess?). He does a very good job of establishing the tempo for the rest of the film; people are introduced, they are boiled alive and their skin is torn off by sensitive hooks, then it’s time to quickly rush to the following lunch meat set coming soon.
Souheila Yacoub, who you may remember from the Gaspar Noé restaurant Climax (2018), plays our obvious final girl, Alice. I don’t want to say that it’s a uninspired performance, but it is obviously not a inspired one either. She just kinda goes through the motions, watching everyone in her family slowly turn into bloodthirsty ghouls and champing at the bit to do them all with various forms of power tools. The filmmakers can I’ve gone for a sort of Tolstoyian “every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” analogy here, but that doesn’t hit the mark at all. The problem with making a family drama is that for the drama to make sense, you kind of have to care on the family. Instead, you KNOW that almost everyone in this house is dead meat and the only real question you want to ask is “how long before these people eat the business side of a chainsaw?”
The gore quotient is roughly the reason watch the movie and I’m sure the filmmakers and studio recognized that pretty early on. There is no way around this problem, Evil Burn is a real gore-a-thon, with lots of stabbings, immolations, decapitations and people getting their throats cut with those little pointy things on the end of the headrests. If this isn’t the bloodiest mainstream film released in theaters in 2026, it must mean Living dead is going to get an anniversary reissue or something.
But then again, crudeness can only take a film so far. This is why total bloodbaths like Sadness, green hell Or The night comes for us are almost forgotten while drier films like From beyond, the Changeling And Reflective skin are all hailed today as classics. Almost all the carnage Evil Burn These are things we’ve seen before, to some extent. Sorry, but it’s 2026 and watching two characters share a damn French kiss just isn’t it’s shocking more. Surprisingly, Evil Burn marks the SECOND major horror film of 2026 to involve a scene in which very crude things are done to an elderly woman’s dentures; I guess Lee Cronin is really was not joke about The Mummy taking place in the Evil death the universe after all. Oh, and one last tip for contemporary horror directors: if you want to show a character drinking hot candle wax, remember, it will just make the audience think. this episode of The Simpsons where Homer goes to make chili.
Another problem with Evil Burn? Cinematography. It’s a super dark movie, and I don’t mean that thematically, I mean it literally. It’s a little hard to understand what’s supposed to be happening on screen sometimes and I don’t even understand begin about the poor quality of the CGI in the third act. Without spoiling the movie, let’s just say that some of the footage looks like something from the first movie. resident Evil game on Playstation1. It’s not convincing at alland a little embarrassing at times.
Yes, Raimi’s Evil death the films were bloody, but the gore was never without an element of camp. The gruesome violence in these films actually seemed heavy-handed and you had a central character. you wanted see the forces of evil triumph. The films were often brutal, but they never seemed cruel Or nihilistic or abjectly desperate. There was always a few humor, a few lightness, a few feeling of optimism. Evil Burnhowever, it’s like watching a barrel of road kill catch fire. There is a few morbid fascination at first, but this putrid smell is Of course to reach you sooner or later.
Some people might enjoy this movie. And these people probably have a family member or ex-spouse they want to kill in real life, for whatever reason. But I’m afraid there won’t be much real fun Or the terror is found in Evil Burn. He has all the courage and blood, but he lacks the A something that made Raimi’s films so legendary — the heart.
GIVE A WATCH IF YOU LIKE: Bad Death (2013), Evil Dead Rise (2023)dishwasher accidents
DIRECTOR: Sébastien Vanicek
WITH : Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan
WRITER(S): Sébastien Vanicek and Florent Bernard
STUDIO: New Line Cinema/Screen Gems/Ghost House Photos
DISTRIBUTER: Warner Brothers
RUNNING DURATION: 109 minutes
LANGUAGE: English
RELEASE DATE: July 10, 2026
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