The next 'Evil Dead' is titled 'Evil Dead Burn'; will premiere in 2026

Last February, it was announced that the horror franchise Evil Dead of Sam Raimigave the green light to the development of a new spinoff under the command of Sébastien Vaniček as director and co-writer.

It is precisely the filmmaker who revealed the official title of the installment through a publication on Instagram where the first page of the script can be seen. The next installment is titled Evil Dead Burn. In the same post the director announced that The film will be released in 2026.

Details of the film's plot remain under lock and key for now.

Speaking about his project with Konbini, Vaniček said:

“I told the studio that I wanted to make an unpleasant movie, a movie that hurts, from which you come away proven. “I'm going to put all the horror I have inside, it will be cathartic, and if I haven't ruined my career and I can continue making movies, I'll move on to something that's not horror!”

Vaniček will direct the script co-written with Florent Bernard.

Raimi and Robert Tapert's Ghost House Pictures will produce the spinoff.

The director's publication is available at the end of this note.

the saga Evil Dead He also has another new film underway that was announced a few months later to Vaniček's project. This other tape will be in charge of Francis Gallupi as writer and director, and will also be produced by Raimi and Tapert's Ghost House Pictures.

The next two installments arrive after the success of Evil Dead Rise (2023) by Lee Cronin.

The new direction for the franchise Evil Dead is that Raimi personally selects promising filmmakers to put his own spin on the Deadites, which has been working positively in recent installments of the saga. We have the case of the remake Evil Dead (2013) by Fede Álvarez, and last year's installment, Evil Dead Rise (2023) by Cronin, which grossed more than $147 million at the global box office.

Vaniček is a rising filmmaker, who made his feature directorial debut with Infested (Vermines) in 2023, a horror film presented for the first time as part of the side section of Critics' Week at the Venice Film Festival. Its plot centers on the residents of a dilapidated French apartment building who fight an army of deadly, rapidly reproducing spiders. Infested it won Best Picture and Best Director in its North American premiere at Fantastic Fest, and was also invited to the Sitges Film Festival, where it earned a Best Picture nomination and won a Special Jury Prize.

Prior to InfestedVarniček directed the short films Crocs, Maydayy 299 792 458 M/S.

The Evil Dead Raimi's original, was released in 1981, and focused on Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell), a combatant of various supernatural entities. That film became a trilogy, and would later create the original Starz series, Ash vs. Evil Dead.