The release of Sébastien Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn is just around the corner. But the hype train for the franchise’s even newer entry, Francis Galluppi’s Evil Dead Wrath, is already gaining steam. During a speech given at Michigan State University in April, producer Rob Tapert spilled the beans on Wrath’s setting.
“Evil Dead Wrath. This is yet another great departure. It predates everything. It takes place in 1972,” Tapert said.
Sam Raimi’s first Evil Dead film didn’t come out until 1981. That means that Wrath will be a prequel set before Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) ever set foot in the cabin. This is huge for the franchise since we obviously know the cabin and the Necronomicon long predate the events of the first film. We got to explore the backstory of the book, some in Army of Darkness, when Ash goes back to the Middle Ages. Wrath, however, could give us the origin story for the cabin.
The Look
“It will feel like a 1972 movie because the director and his DP want to imitate the film’s look and feel of something that’s called Ektachrome 100, which was a film stock. Still available, but a film stock,” explains Tapert. “A lot of movies [were] shot on that then. And so it’s very warm, very tungsten.”
He then compared Galluppi’s, known for films like The Last Stop in Yuma County, work to Vaniček’s, who is known for films like Infested. This is also part of the joy of the expanded Evil Dead universe. It allows very different styles of filmmakers to all work within the same sandbox.
“So, but once again, now, two entirely different filmmakers, one that shoots everything on a 110-millimeter lens handheld, always moving, always shaking, and the other one is very Tarantino-esque, very deliberate. He made a movie, not a horror movie, that I liked a great deal called Last Stop in Yuma County. It’s worth looking up.”
Evil Dead Wrath is currently set to hit theaters on April 7, 2028. Burn will open on July 10th. You can check out the trailer below:
