If you thought you saw a sick new horror trailer last week with the release of our first look at Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil, you’d be dead right. If you thought you’d get another, far gnarlier and nastier new horror trailer this week though, then you’d also be dead right — or Deadite, perhaps. Yes, following that astonishing one-shot first Evil Dead Burn teaser drop a fortnight ago, the full trailer for Infested director Sébastien Vaniček’s first foray into the Evil Dead universe is now here. It’s not for the faint of heart, but you can check it out below if you dare;
‘Family is the root of all evil’ reads the wicked tagline for Evil Dead Burn, and it certainly looks to be the case in this first trailer for French filmmaker Vaniček’s upcoming horror thrill-ride. Three years on from 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, which took a cheese grater to the flesh of Sam Raimi’s cinematic baby in the best way, Vaniček is serving up some kitchen-based nastiness of his own here. In a trailer that sees carseat headrest impalement, severed fingers, smashing heads (we’ll be playing that mirror-shot on repeat for a long time at Empire HQ!), and ill-advised molten-wax-into-mouth pouring, it’s the sight of a poor sod falling victim to Chekhov’s dishwasher that has us feeling real queasy. At the top of the teaser we see said dishwasher innocuously being loaded before an undead arrival interrupts proceedings; by the end of it we’re watching a dude fall back onto all the sharp objects before being pushed down into them by a ravenous Deadite. It’s cruel. It’s grim. It’s very Evil Dead!
The official synopsis for Evil Dead Burn — whose cast includes Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, and Luciane Buchanan — reads: “After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites—turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell—she comes to discover that the vows she took in life… live on even in death.”
Executive produced by franchise talisman Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead Rise mastermind Lee Cronin, with Sam Raimi himself producing, all the seals of approval you could want are already stamped on Sébastien Vaniček’s film. We’ll find out just how groovy Evil Dead Burn proves to be when we crack open the Necronomicon once more on 10 July. All together now — Kanda, estrata, kandos. Turus, indoctus. Skarindus, kanda, amantos, kanda.