[Thor Joachim Haga]

Just came back from Sébastien Vaniček’s EVIL DEAD BURN, the sixth film in the franchise. Well, it certainly ticks off the splatter boxes. But it doesn’t have any of the devilish glee of the Sam Raimi films, of course (even though Raimi and Bruce Campbell are both credited as producers). It sits more evenly with the two reboot films by Alvarez (2013) and Cronin (2023). I understand what it’s trying to do – commenting on a dismantled family after a death, a splatter realization of the traumas involved. But that comes at the cost of the playfulness that this fictional universe has established across multiple films and TV shows.

It’s okay, but it’s more traditional splatter horror and less EVIL DEAD in tone, IMO.

2.5 of 5.