Directed by Sébastien Vaniček — Screenplay by Sébastien Vaniček and Florent Bernard.
It has been fascinating to watch how the Evil Dead film series has evolved from being the genre-fluid horror brainchild of auteur Sam Raimi to now being a franchise that essentially offers an opportunity to on-the-rise filmmakers to play around with Raimi’s creations. In 2013, it was Fede Álvarez who made his feature directorial debut with the reboot simply titled Evil Dead, and he has since gone on to make films such as Don’t Breathe and Alien: Romulus. Ten years later, it was The Hole in the Ground director Lee Cronin who got to tell his story with Evil Dead Rise, and earlier this year, Cronin released a The Mummy film that is, essentially, an Evil Dead film in everything but name. Now, in 2026, it is French filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček who has taken hold of the reins of the series of films. The fact that he was attached to the franchise was something that made me quite excited, because I was a big fan of his Arachnophobia-meets-Attack-the-Block spider-horror flick Infested (also titled Vermins). Like Cronin and Álvarez before him, Vaniček has made an entertaining and brutal horror flick. Although it’s not a perfectly smooth ride, Evil Dead Burn is yet another solid entry in the beloved series of films, which is still going strong.
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