Warner Bros. has unveiled the first trailer for Evil Dead Burn, the latest entry in its classic New Line horror franchise, The Evil Dead, and family reunions can be bloody scary.
While the film’s plot has been kept under wraps up until this point, a trailer unveiled today, exclusively for those at the studio’s CinemaCon panel in Las Vegas if full of living dead, chainsaws, plenty of blood, fingers hacked off. A “My sweet boy, I would give anything for us to be together again. And a sarcastic, “Cheers to you perfect family.”
WB host for the presentation, Patton Oswalt, stressed this was “a very early look at the trailer with unfinished and rough shots, and the filmmakers added an “extra disturbing” too it.”
Slated for release on July 24, Evil Dead Burn is directed by Sébastien Vaniček, who came to the project after helming the buzzy Cannes-premiering spider horror Infested. The cast includes Souheila Yacoub, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, and more.
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Pic comes on the heels of Evil Dead Rise, an installment directed by Lee Cronin, which was originally intended for release on HBO Max, but pivoted to a theatrical release in 2023, and wound up grossing around $147 million worldwide. New Line Cinema and Sony Pictures co-financed the sequel, with longtime franchise producer Rob Tapert and series creator Sam Raimi producing. Exec producers included Romel Adam, Jose Cańas, and Cronin, as well as Bruce Campbell, who originated the role of Ash in the series.
Warner Bros. is handling Evil Dead Burn‘s North American distribution, with StudioCanal distributing in the UK, Metropolitan distributing in France, and Sony handling other international territories.
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The Evil Dead is of course the horror comedy franchise created by Raimi, going back to 1981’s same-name film starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, a combatant of various supernatural entities. That pic grew into a trilogy, also spurring the creation of Starz TV series Ash vs. Evil Dead, and a number of other projects over the years.
Evil Dead Burn is one of two Evil Dead films coming up, the other being Evil Dead Wrath from Francis Galluppi, which stars Charlotte Hope, Jessica McNamee, Zach Gilford, Josh Helman, Ella Newton, Australian newcomer Ella Oliphant, and Elizabeth Cullen. We were first to report on both projects.
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