It’s been fascinating watching the Evil Dead franchise mutate over the past decade-and-change, transforming from Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell’s goofball exploration of their personal horror mythology—an idea that got put through its paces pretty thoroughly via the Ash Vs. Evil Dead TV show—into a more loose incubator for Raimi to cultivate horror talent. Fede Álvarez and Lee Cronin both came up in part through directing standalone Evil Dead movies (in 2013, and then with Evil Dead Rise in 2023), while Infested director Sébastien Vaniček is next up on the block with this summer’s Evil Dead Burn. Now, Warner Bros. has confirmed that the horror machine is going to just keep on rolling, releasing a tiny video today confirming that another Evil Dead movie, titled Evil Dead Wrath, has just entered production.
Given that we still don’t have any clue what Burn—out on July 24, 2026—is about, it’s not entirely surprising to note that we have even less idea of a premise for Wrath. (Undead monsters and ill-advised tape recordings will presumably feature.) What it does have is another director hand-picked by Raimi, in this case Francis Galluppi, who got strong reviews for his crime thriller debut The Last Stop In Yuma County. And, honestly, there’s something genuinely charming about seeing Raimi—who famously dragged himself into Hollywood by running Campbell over repeatedly in the Tennessee woods while they and their buddies were making their own movies together in their youths—using the franchise as a way to get up-and-coming genre directors like he once was in front of much bigger audiences. (Meanwhile, the simple fact that Galluppi has been making his name in various flavors of neo-Westerns raises a lot of interesting questions about what direction this latest film might be pointed in.)
Per Bloody Disgusting, Raimi, Campbell, Cronin, Rob Tapert, Romel Adam and Jose Canas are set to produce Wrath, while Charlotte Hope, Jessica McNamee, Zach Gilford, Josh Helman, Ella Newton, Elizabeth Cullen, and Ella Oliphant—none of whom, it’s worth noting, are on the cast list for Evil Dead Burn, seeming to confirm that the series is settling into its anthology model—are set to star.