‘Evil Dead Wrath’ Producer Reveals Movie Is A Prequel: “Yet Another Great Departure”

With the latest take on the Evil Dead franchise hitting theaters next month, Robert Tapert recently teased what’s in the franchise’s future… so to speak.

The franchise producer revealed that the upcoming Francis Galluppi-helmed installment , which is scheduled to premiere April 7, 2028 in theaters, is a prequel set in 1972 and featuring “the in-laws from hell.”

“This is yet another great departure,” he told Dread Central of the next entry into Sam Raimi’s franchise. “It predates everything. It takes place in 1972.”

Tapert added of the 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 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 Sébastien Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn, premiering July 10 in US theaters.