Evil Dead Burn (2026) Trailer Releases the Necronomicon

It's book week (yay)... well at least it's book week for people into demonic tomes that raise the dead, twist time and possess the living. I'm of course talking about the brand new Evil Dead film that is now popping it's ugly head from behind a doorway. 

 And boy have we been spoiled for choice last week: a teaser, a full trailer and a red‑band trailer for Evil Dead: Burn (2026) have all landed within days... and yes, someone actually reads from the Necronomicon Ex‑Mortis on purpose, in order to raise the dead! 

The new footage leans hard into both the franchise’s kinetic camerawork and a fresh dose of emotional weight. Directed by Sébastien Vaniček (who co‑wrote with Florent Bernard), the trailers open on a devastating car crash and a family funeral. Souheila Yacoub’s Alice, newly widowed, retreats to her in‑laws’ house and, improbably, finds the Necronomicon in a garbage bag. Driven by grief and the hope of bringing her husband back, she deliberately reads aloud. That conscious, grieving choice to summon the dead is a marked shift for the series.

Historically, the Necronomicon’s influence came via accidental discovery, playback tapes, or characters’ reckless curiosity. Here, grief is the catalyst, a more character‑driven motivation than the franchise usually serves. The trailers still deliver the expected gore and grotesque setpieces: Deadite possession, bloodied faces, and a chilling sequence of a headrest‑masked attacker stalking people through a family home. There’s dark humour too, and yes, an unforgettable dishwasher lesson in proper loading technique (people do insist on sticking the sharp bits up).

The tonal change mirrors recent entries like Evil Dead Rise (2023) in aiming for “elevated” stakes, this time through grief and family trauma, while keeping the Kandarian menace front and center. If Vaniček and Bernard can sustain the franchise’s brutal inventiveness while giving us layered characters who actually drive the story, Evil Dead: Burn could be a genuinely interesting addition to Sam Raimi’s legacy rather than just another anthology entry.

Prepared to get BURNED : 10th July 2026.

Check out the three trailers below. 

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