5 Movies To Watch If You Like Evil Dead Burn

All six Evil Dead movies leave viewers with the right kind of exhaustion. After 90-ish minutes, these features have delivered a barrage of gnarly kills, surprising scares, and assorted thrills that ensure you get lots of bang for your buck. For many moviegoers, "Evil Dead Burn," which hailed from French horror filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček, lived up to that legacy. This installment followed Alice Price (Souheila Yacoub) attending the funeral of her abusive husband, William (George Pullar), while his direct family looks upon her with contempt. 

The already toxic situation gets even worse once the Deadites are unleashed and begin possessing people, including William's corpse and his parents. As more and more of the people around her become undead vehicles for violence, Alice must struggle to survive and figure out a way to defeat these organisms. Her journey is one rife with flames, blood, and severed limbs. For those who leave "Evil Dead Burn" singing its praises, they're bound to yearn for further movies of a similar vein to watch. Luckily, there's plenty out there, even beyond the Evil Dead saga, to satisfy those urges.

In fact, there's five especially perfect movies to watch that make ideal accompanying viewing with this Vaniček directorial effort. Whatever the reasons why, these horror movies should work their magic on even the most exhausted "Evil Dead Burn" viewers.

"Evil Dead Burn" director Sebastien Vanicek didn't kick off his filmmaking career with that particular "Evil Dead" sequel. Instead, he directed multiple acclaimed shorts before establishing his voice as a feature length director with an entry into the canon of bizarre big bug horror movies, 2023's "Infested." This production follows Kaleb (Théo Christine), who inadvertently dooms his apartment complex when he brings home a venomous spider. This unusual animal devotee and his neighbors must quickly contend with an arachnid that's reproducing and taking out people. Folks suffering from arachnophobia beware, this very much isn't for you.

Elsewhere, "Infected" has garnered generally positive reviews for delivering on several qualities that would serve Vanicek well on "Evil Dead Burn," including its creative deaths and making the most of confined locations. To boot, "Infested" came to life via Vaniček co-writing the script with Florent Bernard, the co-writer of "Burn." Thankfully, "Infested" isn't just a total shadow of that franchise entry. It's more of an unhinged creature feature, "Eight Legged Freaks" on steroids and other stimulants. Thus, "Evil Dead Burn" fans can be rest assured that watching "Infested" won't feel like sitting through a blood-soaked rerun.

This spider-oriented horror film was basically a training ground for the filmmaker to later take on the Evil Dead franchise, though the praise "Infested" has received makes it clear it's secured a positive reputation in its own right.

The days of the horror moviegoing season only making room for films in the final weeks of August are long gone. For over a decade now, titles like "The Conjuring" and "Nope" have normalized not only horror fare debuting in the hottest months of the year, but also that these motion pictures could thrive in such high-profile release dates. Naturally, then, "Evil Dead Burn" wasn't the only horror title scaring audiences during summer 2026. On the contrary, several of the best horror movies of 2026 so far bowed in between the first weekend of May and Labor Day weekend. One frightfest debuting in that corridor was the Adam Scott star vehicle "Hokum."

Here, Scott plays the most cantankerous author alive, Ohm Bauman, who travels to Ireland to say goodbye to his parents' ashes. While staying at an inn here, Bauman finds himself ensnared in a larger terrifying conspiracy involving a wing of the hotel that's kept off-limits. "Hokum" and "Evil Dead Burn" weren't just summer 2026 horror comrades. They're also both horror films getting a lot of tension-based mileage out of seeing buildings go up in flames and lead characters grappling with their traumatic past. 

More importantly, they both give audiences sizable jolts and difficulties sleeping. "Hokum" specifically has plenty of dark fun playing with audience expectations over what is real, getting viewers hooked into an unlikeable protagonist, and centering jump scares around a man in an eerie rabbit mask. 

Among the most important Warner Bros. movies of all time are several titles hailing from New Line Cinema, a studio that was folded into Warner Bros. in 2008. New Line Cinema has housed all kinds of films ranging from John Waters directorial efforts to the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. However, it's especially well known for its forays into the horror field. There's a reason New Line is known as "the house that Freddy [Kreuger] built" given that this outfit has been connected to the "It" movies, the "Conjuring" universe, "Weapons," and, in North America, 2026's "Evil Dead Burn."

Another big horror saga attached to the New Line Cinema logo is "Final Destination." Like "Evil Dead," this franchise received a mid-2020s sequel. This particular follow-up materialized as "Final Destination Bloodlines," in which a family reckons with the long-term consequences of an ancestor evading death's grasp decades later. It's not easy to make familiar horror brand names feel fresh after decades of exploits. Like the best "Evil Dead" sequels, though, "Bloodlines" has enough grim wit and gory zest to carve out its own identity. 

Its deliciously well timed prologue set high off the ground is a marvel of tension and sound design. Even after that sequence, though, "Final Destination Bloodlines" keeps the gasp-inducing spectacle and slays coming. "Bloodlines" proves some horror franchises really are as creatively unstoppable as the most unkillable slashers.

Every Evil Dead movie owes a debt to the director of the franchise's original three installments, Sam Raimi. Though he hasn't helmed an Evil Dead feature in decades, the grim humor and maximalism coursing through every Sam Raimi movie is still apparent in titles like "Evil Dead Burn." If this particular horror sequel has you hankering for even more diabolical and gory mayhem, then Raimi's latest work, "Send Help," will hit the spot. This being his long-awaited return to the domain of R-rated cinema only sweetens the pot and further ensured some unforgettable madness.

"Send Help" focuses on everyday office worker Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams), who ends up stuck on an abandoned island with her monstrous boss Bradley Preston (Dylan O'Brien). When the duo are surrounded by cubicles and copying machines, Preston holds Liddle's life in his hands. Now? Liddle is the one with the survival know-how. Flipping the script on their previous dynamic and committing to Liddle engaging in truly devious actions are just some of the inspired moves "Send Help" makes. 

This whole production is also aided by McAdams delivering exquisitely entertaining work in the lead role. Though now a veteran of weighty dramas like "Spotlight" and "Disobedience," McAdams unblinkingly commits to all the chaos. To boot, Raimi's chops executing suspenseful sequences are also in rare form here. "Send Help" delightfully encapsulates what sort of sicko cinema only the "Evil Dead" mastermind can deliver.

If "Evil Dead Burn" has you starving for more violent women-led horror movies about coping with past abuses, then Aimee Kuge's "Cannibal Mukbang" will satisfy your hunger. This movie begins with Mark (Nate Wise) encountering Ash (April Consalo), the lady of his dreams who makes her living as a mukbang performer. Also occupying her time is her dedication to hunting down and devouring sexual predators. After she and her sister experienced sexual abuse as children, Ash becomes determined to rid the world of monsters tormenting women. All the while, she and Mark grow closer with the powers of vigilantism and cannibalism bonding them.

While most other genres offer suffocatingly rigid roles for women, horror can be a perfect place for women-identifying performers to let loose and leave a maximalist footprint. Just look at the work of the best final girls in horror movie history. April Consalo lives up to that esteemed legacy and then some with her extraordinary work as Ash. Deftly portraying both a rom-com archetype and something darker, Consalo switches from endearingly cutesy to unnervingly unpredictable in the blink of an eye. It's a wondrous lead turn encapsulating the unique artistry and creativity fueling "Cannibal Mukbang."

Likewise, Aimee Kuge demonstrates outstanding skill in her directorial debut, particularly with nailing a tricky tonal balance. The most outlandish visual elements are similarly impactful. In other words, "Cannibal Mukbang" is gross-out indie horror (the domain "The Evil Dead" started in) at its finest.

If you or anyone you know has been a victim of sexual assault, help is available. Visit the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network website or contact RAINN's National Helpline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).