The Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ franchise has teed up its next installment with Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Burn, set for release July 24, 2026.
Details on next year’s sixth entry in the Sam Raimi-created splatter-horror movie series are being kept under wraps, but a teaser trailer was just released to mark the end of shooting (via Bloody Disgusting/X).
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The clip begins on a sH๏τ of a slate with Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Burn emblazoned on it in the series’ familiar font. A voice off-camera says action and the slate clicks.
The viewer is next treated to a sH๏τ of a traumatized character howling maniacally and smashing away at an unseen foe with a large, blood-smeared metal object. The image then goes to black, but the character’s shrieks and whimpers can still be heard, along with the relentless sound of their battering away at whatever it is they’re trying to kill.
Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Burn will hit screens three years after the last franchise entry, Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Rise, released to a big box office take of $147 million worldwide (on a budget of $15-19 million). Critics also approved of the horror sequel, which currently sits at 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Rise director Lee Cronin exited the franchise after spearheading 2023’s highly successful entry. He’s replaced by Sébastien Vaniček, a French filmmaker best known for 2023’s Infested. Vaniček also co-wrote the new Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ script along with Florent Bernard.
Speaking last year to Bloody Disgusting, Vaniček teased an Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ movie so “nasty,” he will likely retire from horror altogether when it’s finished, having spent up all the darkness within him:
“I told the studio that I wanted to make a nasty film, a film that hurts, from which you come away tested. I’m going to put all the horror I have inside, it will be cathartic, and if I haven’t ruined my career and I can continue to make films behind it, I will move on to something other than horror!”
Vaniček revealed in a 2024 interview with Konbini that he secured 100% creative freedom on Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Burn after he and co-writer Bernard showed franchise creator Raimi and other producers a 15-page treatment including drawings. The film is a standalone that does not directly connect to the rest of the Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ franchise, the director also revealed.
Long-time Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ franchise star and main cheerleader Bruce Campbell talked last month about his own involvement in the next installment, indicating that he will be too busy promoting his own work to chip in much (via The Horror Zine):
I was very involved in 2013 and Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Rise. Currently, I’m on a multi-year odyssey to complete and sell my next flick Ernie & Emma around the world, so I won’t be as involved in the next two that come down the pike.
The Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Burn cast includes Souheila Yacoub (Dune: Part Two) along with Hunter Doohan (Your Honor), Luciane Buchanan (The Night Agent), and Tandi Wright (Pearl).
The Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ franchise was disgorged from the bowels of hell with Raimi’s ultra-low-budget original, and has grossed a worldwide total of $303 million. The series took a 20-year hiatus after Raimi’s Army of Darkness wrapped the original trilogy, roaring back to life in 2013 with the reboot Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ, which grossed $99 million worldwide.
If Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Burn repeats the performance of Evil ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Rise, the seventh franchise entry will take much less than 20 years to arrive.
