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How Evil Dead Burn was received
2026 · Sébastien Vaniček · Evil Dead Burn on Sightlines
What’s debated
Days into release, critics are already split — a 'nastiest chapter yet' fresh-ish Rotten Tomatoes score against a middling 54 on Metacritic — with fans debating whether Vaniček's French-extremity brutality is exactly what Evil Dead needed or grimness at the expense of the series' fun.
Where it stands
Too new to have a place in memory yet — it's the just-released sixth Evil Dead film, arriving with 'goriest entry in the franchise' billing.
Did you know? Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert handed the franchise to Vaniček on the strength of his debut — the French spider-horror hit Infested (Vermines) — making him the first French director of an Evil Dead film; fittingly, Burn opened in France two days before the US.
Named by the director
- Green Room (2015) — Vaniček said Saulnier's build-up-to-violence intensity 'stayed with me when I wrote the script and when I started to develop the artistic direction.'