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Evil Dead Burn

Name: Evil Dead Burn
Genre: Horror
Released: 2026
Cast: Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Erroll Shand

Evil Dead Burn drops a grieving widow into her late husband's family compound, where a bloodline obsessed with demonic research turns her mourning into carnage. It's the franchise's trademark chainsaw-and-viscera glee married to real grief — feral transformations, practical gore, and a marriage vow twisted into something monstrous. For splatter fans who want emotional stakes tangled up with their dismemberment.

TMDb rating

7.7

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