Evil Dead Burn

French director Sébastien Vaniček, who caught Sam Raimi's attention with his spider horror Infested, takes the Evil Dead franchise back to its rural roots. This sixth installment follows a young widow named Alice (Souheila Yacoub) as she visits her in-laws' isolated estate, only to have a family member's desperate act unleash the Necronomicon's demonic forces. Co-written by Vaniček, Florent Bernard, and Sam Raimi, the film was shot in New Zealand on a $15 million budget and released on July 10, 2026.

What sets Evil Dead Burn apart from its predecessors is its focus on grief and family secrets as the catalyst for horror. The tagline "Every family has its demons" works on two levels: the literal deadites and the buried resentments within the Price family. Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, and Luciane Buchanan round out the cast alongside Erroll Shand as the patriarch Edgar. The film is rated R for strong bloody horror violence and gore, and language. [edit]

Alice, a young widow still raw from her husband's sudden death, accepts an invitation from her in-laws to spend time at their sprawling countryside estate. The Price family home sits deep in the woods, miles from the nearest town, surrounded by overgrown fields and a thick canopy of trees that block out most of the moonlight. Alice's sister-in-law Thya and brother-in-law Joseph are there too, both carrying their own guilt and anger over the loss. The family matriarch Susan tries to keep everyone together, while her husband Edgar, the stern patriarch, seems more concerned with the family's reputation than their emotional state.

Other relatives arrive for what was supposed to be a quiet gathering: Polly, William, Jessica, Jared, and Mike, along with Alice's own father, played by Alain Chabat. Tensions simmer beneath polite conversation. Old arguments resurface over dinner. Alice feels like an outsider, the widow who doesn't quite belong. She spends her nights wandering the house, unable to sleep, haunted by memories of her husband.

On the second night, Joseph discovers a hidden basement beneath the wine cellar. Inside a sealed room, he finds the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, bound in human flesh and dripping with occult symbols. Alongside it are candles, ritual knives, and a journal written in a language no one can read. But Joseph knows exactly what he's looking for. He's been researching ways to contact the dead ever since his brother died. That night, while the others sleep, he reads from the book aloud, hoping to speak with his brother one last time.

The demonic force that answers doesn't come for conversation. It seeps into the house like a fog, twisting the air and turning familiar rooms into traps. The first possession happens quietly: William starts speaking in tongues during breakfast, his eyes rolling back before his body contorts into unnatural shapes. The family panics. Edgar locks William in a pantry, but the deadite inside him laughs and taunts them through the door. By nightfall, the house has become a slaughterhouse. The possessed hunt the uninfected, using their intimate knowledge of the house and each other's weaknesses to corner their prey. Alice realizes that the only way out is through the basement, where the book still sits on its pedestal, pulsing with malevolent energy.[edit]