EVIL DEAD BURN

(director/writer: Sébastien Vaniček; screenwriter: Florent Bernard; cinematographer: Philip Lozano; editor: Maxime Caro; music: Double Danger; cast: Souheila Yacoub (Alice, Swiss actress), Tandi Wright (Susan), Hunter Doohan (Joseph), Luciane Buchanan (Thya), Erroll Shand (Edgar Price), Maude Davey (Polly), George Pullar (William Price), Tapiwa Soropa (Mike), Keanu Karim (Jarad), Greta Van Den Brink (deliverer of death) ; Runtime: 110; MPAA Rating: R; producer: Sam Raimi; New Line Cinema/Screen Gems/Warner Bros.; 2026-New Zealand/USA/Canada)

“A ridiculous supernatural horror film.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
 
The 6th Evil Dead (directed in its 1981 start by Sam Raimi) is a ridiculous supernatural horror film by French director Sébastien Vaniček (“Infested”). Vaniček co-writes it with Florent Bernard.

After William Price (George Pullar), the control-freak husband of Alice (Souheila Yacoub, Swiss actress), dies in a car accident, the French widow visits her in-laws lakefront home. The couple own a restaurant and were locked in a toxic marriage, and his family can’t stand her.

Alice’s in-laws include her hubby’s mother Susan (Tandi Wright), father Edgar (Erroll Shand), grandmother Polly (Maude Davey), brother Joseph (Hunter Doohan) and girlfriend Thya (Luciane Buchanan).

After the funeral, Will’s body, when prepped for cremation, bursts out of the coffin, and an evil spirit (called Dendites) enters Edgar (Erroll Shand), the family patriarch, while the widow and her in-laws gather in their run-down woodland second home.

The Deadites are in the in-laws attic looking for a cure to their demonic possession, while Alice gets hold of a magical dagger, supposedly the only way of killing them.

It’s filled with over-the-top-gore, and is the kind of mindless entertainment that doesn’t need a dagger to kill me.

REVIEWED ON 7/13/2026  GRADE: C+
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