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‘Evil Dead Wrath’ – Release Date, Cast, First Looks & Everything We Know
The Evil Dead franchise is chainsawing its way back into our lives with brand new franchise installment Evil Dead Burn this year, but that’s not the only new Evil Dead movie on the way.
While we wait for the official Evil Dead Burn trailer, filming is currently underway on Evil Dead Wrath, the upcoming seventh installment in the bloody-as-hell horror film franchise.
That’s right, TWO NEW EVIL DEAD MOVIES are coming soon!
Here’s EVERYTHING we know about Evil Dead Wrath.
What’s the release date for Evil Dead Wrath?
We do not yet have a release date for Evil Dead Wrath, but its franchise predecessor Evil Dead Burn will be released in theaters on July 24, 2026 from New Line and Warner Bros.
With just three years between Evil Dead Rise and Evil Dead Burn, that’s the shortest stretch of time we’ve ever spent waiting for a new Evil Dead movie. But we expect the wait between Evil Dead Burn and Evil Dead Wrath will be much shorter, with Evil Dead Wrath likely to release sometime in 2027 or 2028 at the latest. Stay tuned for release date updates as we learn more.
Who is directing Evil Dead Wrath?
Writer-director Francis Galluppi is in charge of Evil Dead Wrath, a gig he landed after impressing Sam Raimi and company with his debut feature, The Last Stop in Yuma County.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence. He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut,” producer Sam Raimi told Deadline in an official statement.
The Last Stop in Yuma County followed in the wake of several short films from Francis Galluppi, including Palm Drive, High Desert Hell, and The Gemini Project.
The filmmaker’s IMDb bio notes, “High Desert Hell went on to win several awards, including the Wes Craven Award at the Catalina Film Festival in 2019.”
IMDb’s bio continues, “The Gemini Project, Galluppi’s follow-up film, won Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Short Film at the Burbank International Film Festival in 2020.”
You can watch High Desert Hell below. In the short, “Four young adults venture to a remote location in the high desert of California and are mysteriously preyed upon.”
Mac Fisken (Last Stop in Yuma County) is the cinematographer for Evil Dead Wrath.
Who is starring in Evil Dead Wrath?
The cast for Evil Dead Wrath includes…
- Charlotte Hope (The Nun)
- Jessica McNamee (Mortal Kombat)
- Zach Gilford (“Midnight Mass”)
- Josh Helman (Mad Max: Fury Road)
- Ella Newton (Dangerous Animals)
- Elizabeth Cullen (Diabolic)
- Ella Oliphant
What is the plot of Evil Dead Wrath?
We know nothing about the approach for Evil Dead Wrath at this time.
We expect that much like Evil Dead Rise, Evil Dead Wrath will tell a brand new story of a new group of characters being terrorized by the savage horrors within the Book of the Dead.
Deadline had reported when Evil Dead Wrath was first announced, “The project is described as an original story that Galluppi developed and brought to Raimi and team.”
Is Bruce Campbell involved in Evil Dead Wrath?
Evil Dead creator Sam Raimi and franchise producer Rob Tapert will produce via their Ghost House Pictures. Horror icon Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead Rise filmmaker Lee Cronin executive produce alongside Romel Adam and Jose Canas, both of whom worked on Evil Dead Rise.
In a recent chat with Forbes, however, Bruce Campbell noted that his direct involvement in the Evil Dead movies has become less and less as the years have gone on.
Campbell told Forbes, “We had a meeting a couple of years ago and the French director [Sébastien Vanicek] of Evil Dead Burn was there to experience his first script development meeting. He turned in a 10-page treatment to say, ‘Here’s my rough idea. Here’s what I’m thinking, A to Z’ and I think he got 20 pages of notes back.
“That’s when I said to myself. ‘You guys got this. I think you guys got this.’ I got tired of arguing points with someone who’s 26 years old about story and structure, and all that sort of stuff, and what matters and what doesn’t. So, I just found out it’s way better to just step back.
“I’m partners with the guys. Nothing else has changed. I just told them, ‘Guys. I’m actually doing my own thing now, and it takes a lot of time and attention. If I can get fewer emails for approvals not clogging my timeline, that’s good for me at this point’.”
Has the trailer for Evil Dead Wrath been released?
The trailer for Evil Dead Wrath has not been released at this time. Stay tuned.
Evil Dead Wrath – Your First Look
Evil Dead Wrath is currently filming in Auckland, New Zealand, and the official logo was revealed in an official Instagram post announcing the start of production. Check that out below.
Additionally, behind the scenes photos have begun to make their way online. Scroll through star Jessica McNamee’s Instagram post down below to see the first on-set photos.
Stay tuned for much more on Evil Dead Burn and Evil Dead Wrath.
Behind the scenes of “EVIL DEAD WRATH” 🩸 pic.twitter.com/eJE0vKRHpv
— Sam Raimi Updates (@SamRaimiUpdates) April 3, 2026
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Judging from the unprecedented box office success of Kane Parsons’ Backrooms adaptation, you’ve likely already seen the liminal horror hit that managed to make audiences afraid of empty hallways and bad wallpaper. And now that so many of us have already entered the yellow labyrinth (some of us more than once), the time has come to discuss the spoiler-filled details that make the movie so fascinating in the first place.
And if there’s one element here that makes the Backrooms movie stand out from any previous lore/mythology, it has to be the genius addition of the Still Life entities. Warped recreations of real people that somehow wandered into the Complex, these misremembered creatures are responsible for some of the most disturbing imagery of 2026 – as well as laugh-out-loud memes created by one of the film’s very own concept artists.
However, true to Parsons’ word that the movie would rely heavily on practical effects, each of these distorted monsters was brought to life by real actors under heavy layers of makeup and prosthetics (with the occasional splash of CGI enhancements). While Anora and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You actress Ivy Wolk wasn’t among these performers, despite what Letterboxd might have you believe, the creature cast did benefit from veteran players with plenty of genre experience.
For starters, Alien: Romulus alumni Robert Bobroczkyi (who previously brought that film’s horrific Offspring to life during its most memorable sequence) plays the flick’s main antagonist, the Still Life version of Captain Clark. And though there was some obvious CGI involved in making the character’s peg-leg and nightmarish face more believable, Bobroczkyi’s monstrous performance and his natural 7’7″ frame helped to make that final chase sequence a clear highlight among this year’s genre offerings.
The film’s Texas-Chain-Saw-inspired “dinner” scene also features a freaky collection of less-aggressive Still Life creatures in the form of the Bearded Man, the Red-Headed Woman and, strangest of them all, the cheekily named “Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life” (who earned this title among fans and crewmembers as a reference to his apparent affinity for lamps).
While this was the first major horror outing for both Patrick Baynham (The Bearded Man) and Dana Mahmood (Archibald), Rhiannon Roberts has worked as a stunt performer in everything from Yellowjackets to HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation – which is probably why The Red-Headed Woman is the most active out of Clark’s impromptu “family.” That being said, the Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life is my personal favorite of the bunch simply because his anachronistic outfit suggests that the Backrooms phenomenon might be a lot older than the Async Foundation. I also love how hard he tries to be helpful with that little light of his!
That might be it for the Still Life entities, but I think horror fans will also be pleased to hear that the film’s Found Footage prologue stars none other than Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City star Avan Jogia as Naren Warne – and American Mary herself Katharine Isabelle also shows up in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo at Mary’s house party towards the middle of the story (though I have a feeling that she originally had a bigger part that was likely cut for time).
At the end of the day, Parsons’ Backrooms may have been an auteur-driven project motivated by the young director’s unique take on the classic creepypasta, but film has always been a collective artform, so it’s fun to see just how many talented performers it takes to bring this kind of supernatural nightmare to life in a way that connects with so many people.
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