Evil Dead Burn

Impressively, Vaniček — with co-writer Florent Bernard — manages to shake up the formula a little. How the Kandarian nasties get involved is different to any other film in the series. And for the first time, the Deadites have a purpose beyond simply swallowing souls — they’re on the backfoot, and they’re pissed. That makes them even deadlier for Alice (a hard-as-nails Souheila Yacoub), trying to tough out an emotional afternoon with the in-laws, hiding from them that their recently deceased son Will — her husband — was an angry, violent man; a dramatically rich dynamic for the demons to mine once they start infecting the family one by one.