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Evil Dead Burn reviews praise brutal new Evil Dead entry

moviesJul 8, 202632524

Sébastien Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn opens as a bleak, brutally violent new entry in the franchise that critics call its meanest outing yet. Daily Dead says the film is a full-sprint horror flick that pushes violence and rage to the forefront and compares Vaniček’s approach to the 2013 Evil Dead remake. The story centers on Souheila Yacoub as widowed Alice at a tense family reunion with Joseph (Hunter Doohan), Susan (Tandi Wright), Edgar (Erroll Shand) and Polly (Maude Davey), where revealed domestic abuse and a Necronomicon-related possession ignite carnage. Reviewers praise Vaniček’s kinetic camerawork, practical fire effects and extreme gore while noting the script’s cavalier structure that sacrifices some character grounding. Multiple reviews, including Whitlock&Pope’s three-and-a-half-star take, single out the film’s near-total abandonment of franchise humor, with Polly’s xenophobic remarks the main comic note. Early coverage on Rotten Tomatoes shows a 92 percent Tomatometer from 25 reviews, and several critics call Souheila Yacoub a standout performance and credit the film with delivering one of the franchise’s most ruthless Deadite massacres. Two end-credits tags are reported to appear after the film’s close.

Alan Cerny
@alancerny.bsky.social

I’m down for EVIL DEAD BURN, but this franchise has its roots in physical comedy and silliness (if EVIL DEAD 2 and ARMY OF DARKNESS count as “roots”). I’d really, really like to see it return to that. It doesn’t need Bruce Campbell to do that.

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