‘Evil Dead Burn’ Director Had To “Trim” A Scene To Avoid NC-17 Rating: “Still Intense And Pretty Brutal”

As fans of the franchise will be pleased to hear, Evil Dead Burn did not hold back on the gore until absolutely necessary.

Co-writer and director Sébastien Vaniček recently revealed there was one scene he had to “trim a little bit” in order to avoid an NC-17 rating for the Warner Bros. horror movie, which is now playing in theaters.

“There was a particular scene where I had to trim a little bit,” he told SlashFilm. “The scene is still here. The scene is still intense and pretty brutal.”

Vaniček added, “But yeah, my version was, I would say, it’s not more brutal, but it’s colder. It’s more raw. So that was more difficult for an audience to bear that and to breathe a little bit. So I changed some little things, but the scene is not 100% different. And that allowed the movie to be R-rated and not NC-17.”

Producer Robert Tapert previously said of ‘s synopsis, “It’s the story of a French woman in a bad marriage in America, and … what we will discover along the ride – was probably an abusive husband, whose family did not believe her – and so they were basically the in-laws from hell.”

Following Sam Raimi’s original trilogy, which included The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead II (1987) and Army of Darkness (1993), the franchise was rebooted with Fede Álvarez’s Evil Dead in 2013.

With Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise (2023) steering the movies in a new darker direction, to the tune of $147M globally, the horror is set to continue with Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn, premiering July 10 in U.S. theaters. Next up is Francis Galluppi’s Evil Dead Wrath, hitting theaters on April 7, 2028.