Evil Dead Burn final trailer features a dishwasher kill so gnarly it broke the internet. Sam Raimi’s horror franchise returns July 10.
Evil Dead Burn trailer just dropped its final cut, and I will never look at kitchen appliances the same way again. The footage, released by Warner Bros. in late June, features what is already being called the most inventive kill in franchise history: a Deadite shoving a boy onto an open dishwasher full of knives and then jumping on his chest to drive the silverware deeper. It is disgusting. It is brilliant. It is pure Evil Dead.
Sébastien Vaniček directs this sixth installment, which continues the franchise’s recent tradition of handing the reins to emerging filmmakers. Sam Raimi discovered Vaniček after his 2023 debut Infested, a spider horror film that proved the French director knows how to make small spaces feel inescapable. For Evil Dead Burn, Vaniček takes that claustrophobic energy and applies it to a single-family home—the first time the franchise has abandoned cabins and apartments for something more domestic and therefore more disturbing.
The trailer opens with a mother unloading a dishwasher full of sharp silverware, which is already suspicious because no horror movie shows domestic tranquility without immediately destroying it. She answers the door to find an undead corpse with chopped-off fingers and a car headrest through her skull. The corpse pulls out the headrest, drops it on the floor, and the carnage begins. A flashback reveals a gnarly car accident and a door slamming shut on a girl’s fingers, severing them. By the time the dishwasher kill arrives, you’ve already seen enough to know this film is not messing around.
Why the Evil Dead Burn Trailer Hits Different
Evil Dead Burn trailer works because it understands what makes this franchise special. The Deadites aren’t just zombies—they’re possessed loved ones who retain memories and use them against you. They mock you in the voices of your family. They know your weaknesses because they literally wear your mother’s face. The trailer shows Alice (Souheila Yacoub) crawling through her in-laws’ destroyed home as attacks rage around her, and the deadites’ faces remain in shadow, making them somehow scarier than full reveal.
The cast brings serious genre credibility. Souheila Yacoub leads after her Dune: Part Two breakthrough. Hunter Doohan, fresh from Wednesday and Daredevil: Born Again, plays her brother-in-law. Tandi Wright, who made Pearl unforgettable, joins the family reunion from hell. And Luciane Buchanan from The Night Agent adds international appeal. These actors know exactly what kind of movie they’re in, and they commit to the madness with the kind of sincerity that makes horror work.
Sam Raimi produces alongside Rob Tapert through Ghost House Pictures, with Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin serving as executive producers. This is the franchise’s secret weapon—every new director gets the blessing of the creators while being given freedom to innovate. Vaniček’s French sensibility brings a different rhythm to the scares, more atmospheric and less slapstick than Raimi’s original trilogy but equally committed to practical gore.
Evil Dead Burn trailer ends with Alice discovering that “the vows she took in life live on even in death,” which is either romantic or deeply ominous depending on whether your husband comes back as a Deadite. The film opens July 10, and based on this footage, it’s going to be the reason I start washing dishes by hand.
Watch Evil Dead Burn in theaters July 10, but maybe skip the kitchen scene if you’re squeamish.
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