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Hammer Films Acquires Black List Writer’s ‘Wake’
While we’re still unsure if it’s going to be a horror project, it is coming from Hammer Films. It was announced today that Hammer picked up Wake, a spec script by Chris Borrelli, with Kasper Barfoed attached to direct. The project has franchise aspirations and has been a described as a Transporter-style story. Borrelli is a “Black List” writer who first popped up with the supernatural thriller spec Whisper, produced by Universal/Gold Circle in 2007. Last summer his spec The Vatican Tapes sold in a bidding war to Lionsgate and Lakeshore. Barfoed is a Danish filmmaker best known for 2008’s Kandidaten (The Candidate), which is getting remade as a Sam Worthington vehicle.
The perfect family is brutally eviscerated in the upcoming franchise installment Evil Dead Burn, and a brand new clip from the grueling experience has been unleashed this week.
Watch the gnarly new clip from Evil Dead Burn below!
Evil Dead Burn releases in theaters nationwide July 10, 2026.
The upcoming installment unleashes the franchise’s most savage and terrifying ride to date, blazing onto big screens with an all-new chapter of carnage and demonic mayhem.
After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites—turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell—she comes to discover that the vows she took in life… live on even in death.
Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, and Hunter Doohan star.
Evil Dead Wrath, meanwhile, just wrapped production. Expect that one in 2028.