| Warner Bros. | Release Date: July 10, 2026 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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15
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Critic Reviews
Jul 10, 2026
If you’re only looking for bloody, wet horror with bodies broken and bent unnaturally and traumatizing set pieces, you’ll find a few visceral thrills in Evil Dead Burn. But if you need horror to emotionally earn its nastiness when dealing with a theme as important as domestic violence, you’ll find it as soulless as the Deadites that Alice must destroy to claw her way toward an uneasy survival.
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Jul 10, 2026
Jul 9, 2026
Against Lee Cronin’s finely calibrated joyride, Vanicek’s version, for all the tricks up its sleeve, never feels in control of its chaos. Individual face-offs in which the violence is contained in cramped quarters — such as the inside of a car and a bathroom — stand out, whereas more sprawling set pieces often feel like we’re in a haunted house playing Whac-a-Mole.
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IndieWireJul 8, 2026
Vaniček doesn’t reinvent Evil Dead, but he does reinvent how an Evil Dead movie can feel. Whether or not that ultimately works for you, it’s the rare legacy sequel that expands the possibilities of its own franchise — and leaves you genuinely excited to see who will push themselves to the point of exhaustion next.
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Jul 8, 2026
This latest instalment of the long-running franchise makes less of an impact than its predecessors. Nevertheless, this tale of a troubled family battling a demonic infestation has some inventively schlocky setpieces and a strong central performance from Souheila Yacoub, and will undoubtedly prove a winner with horror fans looking for a fun time.
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Jul 8, 2026
Radio TimesJul 8, 2026
Though Vaniček directs the gruesome shenanigans with plenty of panache, displaying a similar command of inventive, hyperactive camerawork as franchise originator Raimi, the constant barrage of all-out horror can have a numbing effect that might have been avoided with more considered pacing – especially given the film runs longer than any previous entry in the Evil Dead canon.
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Jul 8, 2026
Those hoping for a return to the “splatstick” of the possessed hand in Evil Dead 2 or the cartoon medieval capering of Army of Darkness will be disappointed. Instead, Evil Dead Burn brings a convincing new-French-extremity energy to the Deadites. Regrettably, that’s not really who they are. Where did the groovy go?
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ColliderJul 8, 2026
The GuardianJul 8, 2026
While much of the horror action proceeds at more of a dutiful march than a Raimi-esque sprint, Vaniček and cinematographer Philip Lozano pull off some clever technical moves, whether pivoting with the characters until they’re on the ceiling or pulling back for unbroken shots that invert Raimi’s pinballing-camera technique to observe knock-down, drag-out fights from a limited location, emphasizing the scope of mayhem.
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SlashfilmJul 8, 2026
Three films in, I think it's fair to say the modern "Evil Dead" movies have found the right formula. While nothing will ever quite compare to what Raimi originally created (how could it?), I've grown quite fond of this new approach of handing each movie to a different director and letting them run wild.
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Screen RantJul 8, 2026
Evil Dead Burn’s set pieces are so inspired and engrossing that the pacing impressively never wavers. The speed with which the film travels through the Deadite attacks easily could have become monotonous and draining in other hands, but not Vaniček’s. His direction is so energized that a nearly two-hour movie feels more like the franchise’s typical 90-minute fare.
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