By Anna Menta Published July 9, 2026, 1:30 p.m. ET Those evil deadites just won’t die, will they? The sixth film in the horror movie franchise, Evil Dead Burn, opens in movie theaters this weekend. And this time, the dead get evil-er. More evil. Whatever! Evil Dead Burn is a sequel to the previous reboot films, 2013’s Evil Dead and 2023’s Evil Dead Rise. Like those two films before it, Evil Dead Burn is a “standalone sequel,” meaning you don’t need to have seen any of the other movies in order to have your pants scared off by this film. It’s all based on Sam Raimi’s original independent horror cult classic from 1981, The Evil Dead. Raimi, who produced the reboot films, hired French director Sébastien Vaniček to helm this sixth film, after he was impressed by Vaniček’s 2023 directorial debu