5 Must-Watch Horror Movies If You Loved Evil Dead Burn

The six films in the Evil Dead franchise all leave audiences feeling pleasantly battered. In roughly 90 minutes, each one unleashes a relentless mix of gruesome deaths, sharp scares and outrageous thrills. For many viewers, Sébastien Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn continues that tradition. The French filmmaker’s entry centers on Alice Price (Souheila Yacoub), who attends the funeral of her abusive husband, William (George Pullar), only to face open hostility from his family.

The family gathering becomes even more dangerous when the Deadites emerge and begin taking over human bodies, including William’s corpse and those of his parents. With the people around her transformed into violent undead weapons, Alice is forced into a desperate fight for survival while searching for a way to destroy the organisms. Her ordeal is packed with fire, bloodshed and flying body parts. Anyone who finishes Evil Dead Burn eager for more savage, high-energy horror will find plenty of worthy follow-up viewing outside the franchise itself.

Five films in particular make excellent companions to Vaniček’s horror sequel. Whether you are chasing the gore, the dark comedy or the sheer chaos, each of these movies should satisfy viewers still recovering from Evil Dead Burn.

Before taking on the Evil Dead universe, Sébastien Vaniček built his reputation through several acclaimed short films and then made his feature debut with 2023’s Infested, a wildly inventive entry in the giant-insect horror tradition. The story follows Kaleb (Théo Christine), whose decision to bring home a venomous spider puts his entire apartment building at risk. As the creature multiplies and begins killing residents, Kaleb and his neighbors must confront an infestation that rapidly spirals out of control. Anyone with severe arachnophobia should approach this one with caution.

Infested earned strong reviews for its imaginative deaths and effective use of claustrophobic settings—qualities that would later prove valuable in Vaniček’s work on Evil Dead Burn. The film was also co-written by Vaniček and Florent Bernard, who later co-wrote Burn. Still, Infested stands on its own rather than feeling like a practice run for another franchise. Think of it as Eight Legged Freaks pushed into far more frantic and vicious territory. For Evil Dead Burn fans, it offers a fresh creature feature instead of a simple replay of the same bloody formula.

The spider movie may have served as a proving ground for Vaniček’s later franchise assignment, but the acclaim surrounding Infested confirms that it has earned a strong identity of its own.

Horror is no longer confined to the final weeks of August. For more than a decade, films such as The Conjuring and Nope have shown that scary movies can dominate the summer box office and command major release dates. That made Evil Dead Burn one of several high-profile horror films released between the first weekend of May and Labor Day in 2026. Among the season’s notable fright films was the Adam Scott-led Hokum.

Scott plays Ohm Bauman, an irritable author who travels to Ireland to scatter his parents’ ashes. During his stay at an inn, he becomes caught in a disturbing conspiracy connected to a sealed-off section of the building. Like Evil Dead Burn, Hokum uses fire, dangerous architecture and characters haunted by painful histories to build suspense. Both films also turn their settings into sources of escalating danger.

Most importantly, each movie delivers the kind of jolts that can make sleep difficult afterward. Hokum has particular fun questioning what is real, drawing audiences into the story through an abrasive central character and unleashing jump scares involving a sinister figure wearing a rabbit mask.

New Line Cinema, now part of Warner Bros. after being absorbed by the company in 2008, has played a major role in film history. Its catalog stretches from John Waters’ movies to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but the studio remains especially associated with horror. The nickname “the house that Freddy built” reflects its connection to the It films, the Conjuring universe, Weapons and, in North America, 2026’s Evil Dead Burn.

Another major horror property linked to New Line is the Final Destination series. Like Evil Dead, the franchise returned with a mid-2020s continuation in Final Destination Bloodlines. The film follows a family facing the consequences of an ancestor who escaped death decades earlier. Reviving a familiar horror brand after so many installments is difficult, but Bloodlines succeeds through a blend of morbid humor, inventive kills and grisly imagination that gives it a personality of its own.

Its expertly constructed opening sequence, staged high above the ground, immediately establishes the film’s command of tension and sound. The suspense does not fade once the prologue ends, either. Final Destination Bloodlines continues to deliver elaborate set pieces and shocking deaths, proving that some horror franchises remain creatively resilient even after repeatedly attempting to cheat death.

Every Evil Dead installment carries the influence of Sam Raimi, who directed the original trilogy. Although Raimi has not made an Evil Dead feature in decades, his taste for manic violence, dark comedy and oversized cinematic energy remains visible in films such as Evil Dead Burn. For viewers craving another dose of Raimi-style mayhem, his latest movie, Send Help, is an obvious choice. His long-awaited return to R-rated filmmaking makes the project even more enticing.

Send Help follows Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams), an ordinary office worker stranded on a deserted island with her cruel boss, Bradley Preston (Dylan O’Brien). In their former office environment, Preston controlled Linda’s life. On the island, however, the balance of power shifts dramatically as Linda’s survival skills become essential. The film finds plenty of darkly entertaining ways to reverse their relationship, including giving Linda the opportunity to take some genuinely ruthless action.

McAdams anchors the film with a performance that is both committed and thoroughly entertaining. Known for serious dramas including Spotlight and Disobedience, she throws herself into Raimi’s increasingly absurd chaos without hesitation. Raimi, meanwhile, remains a master of suspenseful staging. Together, they make Send Help a gleefully twisted showcase for the kind of outrageous genre filmmaking most closely associated with the Evil Dead creator.

Viewers searching for more women-led horror about trauma, revenge and extreme violence should put Aimee Kuge’s Cannibal Mukbang on their list. The story begins when Mark (Nate Wise) meets Ash (April Consalo), a woman he considers his dream partner and who works as a mukbang performer. Ash also hunts and eats sexual predators. After experiencing abuse as children, she and her sister dedicate themselves to eliminating the men who prey on women. As Ash and Mark grow closer, romance becomes entangled with vigilantism and cannibalism.

Horror has long given women performers room to break away from restrictive character types and embrace larger, stranger roles. April Consalo does exactly that as Ash, delivering one of the film’s biggest strengths. She moves effortlessly between charming romantic-comedy energy and deeply unsettling unpredictability, sometimes within the same scene. The result is a fearless lead performance that captures the unusual spirit behind Cannibal Mukbang.

Kuge also makes an impressive directorial debut, maintaining control over the movie’s difficult tonal shifts. The film’s most outrageous images land with equal parts shock and purpose. In that sense, Cannibal Mukbang represents the best kind of gross-out independent horror—the same unruly cinematic territory where The Evil Dead first made its mark.

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