‘Evil Dead Wrath’ Producer Reveals Movie Is A Prequel: “Yet Another Great Departure”
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- Robert Tapert told Dread Central that Evil Dead Wrath is a prequel set in 1972 that "predates everything," calling it "yet another great departure" for Sam Raimi's franchise
- Francis Galluppi is directing Evil Dead Wrath, which is scheduled to premiere in theaters on April 7, 2028
- Tapert described the film's premise as "the story of a French woman in a bad marriage in America" with "the in-laws from hell" — a family that did not believe her account of an abusive husband
- Sébastien Vaniček is directing the adjacent installment Evil Dead Burn, which premieres in US theaters July 10, keeping two Evil Dead entries on the studio's active slate
- The franchise's prior pivot, Lee Cronin's Evil Dead Rise (2023), earned $147M globally and steered the series in a darker direction before the Galluppi and Vaniček entries
- Tapert's 1972 setting predates Raimi's original trilogy — The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead II (1987) and Army of Darkness (1993) — as well as Fede Álvarez's 2013 reboot
Why it matters: Evil Dead Wrath's 1972 prequel framing gives the franchise its first chronological origin story rather than another cabin-in-the-woods reboot, and with Evil Dead Burn already dated for July 2025, the April 2028 release keeps two installments simultaneously active on the slate — an unusual pipeline density for a horror series.
