Welp, someone’s done it again. The Necronomicon has resurfaced, and despite all warnings against intoning any of the words inside, passages have clearly been read that’ve raised those malevolent deadites. Yes, the Evil Dead are rising once more. Two years after Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise, the next instalment in the Sam Raimi horror saga is officially go: Evil Dead Burn, a film that, as far as we know, is unconnected (in a direct sense) to the previous entries in the series.
The film is being directed by French filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček, behind recent cult hit spider horror Infested, and Vaniček confirmed on his Instagram that cameras on Burn are officially rolling.
Details on Evil Dead Burn are relatively scarce – we have no sense of plot (beyond, well, possessions, possible chainsaw action, and gallons of gore), or whether the film will pick up on any threads from Evil Dead Rise, or Fede Alvarez’s 2013 Evil Dead, or Raimi’s original trilogy. What we do know is that Vaniček penned the screenplay for Burn alongside Florent Bernard, and his cast includes Wednesday star Hunter Doohan, Souheila Yacoub, Luciane Buchanan, and Tandi Wright. Sam Raimi is producing, as are Bruce Campbell and Lee Cronin. Evil Dead Burn is expected to hit cinemas next summer, on 24 July.
Since Evil Dead Rise turned out to be a thrillingly hardcore return to one of horror’s most beloved mythologies, here’s hoping Vaniček can conjure just as much carnage as Cronin did (he’s currently hard at work on a new take on The Mummy). Say it with us: Kandarrrrr!
