Review | “Evil Dead Burn” is bleak, banal and bad

‘Evil Dead Burn’ movie review: Sébastien Vaniček’s splattercraft is dragged into the grave by a necrotic screenplay

Every inventive mutilation pulls ‘Evil Dead Burn’ closer to reinvention, yet somewhere between French Extremity and the world’s worst in-laws, it strands one of the franchise’s most tantalising almost-great films

Review | “Evil Dead Burn” is bleak, banal and bad

“Evil Dead Burn” is the sixth film in the long-running “Evil Dead” franchise.  Directed by Sébastien Vaniček, the film follows a family after they suffer a death. While grieving, the family transforms, one by one, into the “Evil Dead” demons, deadites. What is immediately present in this film is a very common theme in horror movies these days.  This entire movie is all about trauma; it is such a recycled theme in horror now that it is instantly …

Evil Dead Burn - a New French Extremity-inspired entry to a series that will (hopefully) never die! - ScullyVision

Nobody on the planet was cooking as hard as Sam Raimi was when he unleashed The Evil Dead into the universe back in 1981. Made with no money and a handful of friends, this brutal, psychotic shocker effectively changed the game, ensuring that the young filmmaker would have a career for decades to come. And now, 45 years later, the franchise has spawned four sequels, one remake (that I personally choose to view as a sequel), a television series, m…

A Gloomy Affair: ‘Evil Dead Burn’ Is Missing Laughs, Fun and a Cohesive Narrative

Evil Dead Burn continues along the route of the previous installment in the franchise, Evil Dead Rise. That’s not a good thing. Unlike the hilarious mayhem that distinguished the Sam Raimi films and the hilarious Ash vs. Evil Dead TV series, Evil Dead Rise is a mostly gloomy affair. It isn’t any fun. This just feels like the prior movie all over again; the franchise doesn’t go anywhere new. There are sporadic moments that are creepy and unnervin…

Evil Dead Burn Review: The Path is Set for the End Game

Evil Dead fans have long been used to waiting between films. Sam Raimi‘s original trilogy took place over the course of a few days, but still made fans wait six years between each title. There were twenty years between Army of Darkness and the semi-reboot Evil Dead, and then another decade before Evil Dead Rise. But Evil Dead Burn, the newest title from director Sébastien Vaniček and writers Vaniček and Florent Bernard, comes just three years af…