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Nine Inch Nails Rock Second ‘Red Riding Hood’ Trailer
I was hit up by a few Twitter followers (who attended a confirmed test screening) that report to me Warners forthcoming Red Riding Hood is absolutely “terrible”. It burns me to the core to see Catherine Hardwicke fall so hard after directing such compelling teen-themed dramas as Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown. It’s been a downhill roll since then. If March 11 comes around and I too am disappointed with this “Little Red Riding Hood” adaptation, I’m crossing her off my gift list for next Christmas (like I really have one). Even with the bad buzz, it’s hard to ignore awesome trailers that rock badass Nine Inch Nails tunes; check out the second inside.
“Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Max Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie’s older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon’s arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast–one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect…and bait.”
We already know that this year’s Evil Dead Burn is directly connected to Evil Dead Rise, but will the brand new movie have any connection to the franchise’s more distant past?
According to Evil Dead Burn star Hunter Doohan, there are indeed connections between the new movie and director Sam Raimi’s original trilogy of Evil Dead tales!
Doohan explains in a fresh new chat with Out Magazine that he’s playing a character named Joseph in Evil Dead Burn, who is “researching the lore in the story.”
“Joseph is working on a book about his grandfather’s research,” Doohan reveals in his chat with Out Magazine. “His grandfather knew Professor Knowby.”
Doohan continues, “I loved how this script not only ties back a little bit to Evil Dead Rise — but this movie connects the lore through the whole franchise, which I found really exciting.”
Professor Raymond Knowby is at the very center of the original Evil Dead trilogy, heard on the infamous tape recorder in the original classic and later featured in Raimi’s Evil Dead II.
Professor Knowby found the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis in the ruins of Castle Kandar, bringing the book and its Deadite curse to the cabin in the woods that Ash and friends end up at.
Needless to say, Knowby is one of the most important characters in the mythology of the Evil Dead saga. And it sounds like Evil Dead Burn is bringing it all full circle this Summer.
Sébastien Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn releases in theaters July 10, 2026.
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.
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