New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures have officially announced Evil Dead Wrath.
Francis Gallupi is in the director’s chair for this immediate follow-up to 2026’s Evil Dead Burn from Sébastien Vaniček.
Film News Blitz’s RC Stacey celebrates the surprising but very welcome news.
‘Evil Dead Wrath’ hot on the heels of 2026’s ‘Evil Dead Burn’
Horror fans rejoice, Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead franchise is in good hands.
24 July 2026 brings Evil Dead Burn from Vaniček, whose arachnaphobia-enducing Infested (2023) saw him headhunted by Raimi himself to helm the follow-up to Evil Dead Rise (2023).
If that wasn’t good enough for fans of the demonic splatter horror sensation, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. have announced that Evil Dead Wrath has entered active production.
Helmed by Gallupi, who crafted the excellently tense The Last Stop in Yuma County (2023) on a budget of just $1 Million, Evil Dead Burn has no slated release date, but we can hope for Summer 2027.
The history of ‘The Evil Dead’ franchise
Beginning in 1981 with The Evil Dead, a masterclass in low-budget horror, Raimi carved a name for himself as the maestro of practical gore and chilling scares.
Not one to rest on his laurels, Raimi has gone on to direct the beloved Tobey Maguire-starring Spider-Man trilogy of the noughties, as well as many other excellent thrillers/horrors, such as Send Help, which reminded the box office of the power of original IP earlier this year.
The Evil Dead franchise was last seen on screens in the excellent Evil Dead Rise (2023).
Raimi and the producing team have promised a continuation of the series in its classic vein, with an interest in blood-soaked demons and bone-crunching violence.
Most interestingly, they are cherry-picking exciting, up-and-coming horror filmmakers to helm the IP who can work ingenuity with “small” budgets, just as Raimi did back in 1981.
The franchise has generated over $300 Million at the box office, against a reported cumulative total budget of just over $46 Million, but is perhaps most renowned for being one of the leading ‘video nasties’.
‘Video nasties’ was the tabloid name given to shocking horror films that were sold to children throughout the United States and England, owing to a lack of age certification on the VHS releases.
After national scandals, including links to real-life violence enacted by children, Mary Whitehouse and the Daily Mail pressured the UK government into creating the Video Recordings Act 1984, which mandated that all home releases of films required an age certification.
The original The Evil Dead was so dreaded by pressure groups that it received an X rating from the BBFC for its release (with parts cut from the film), which was practically unheard of at the time.
However, upon a more lenient view in 2002, the uncut version was finally released with a more appropriate 18 certificate.
To find out more about ‘video nasties’, please take a look at Prano Bailey-Bond’s excellent debut horror film Censor (2021). Or, give it a Google. It’s fascinating stuff.
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