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I want to discuss accessibility because it is the most important thing for making websites. Other A List Apart articles give you innovation and insight. This article will give you homework. These are just my personal views, but they’re pretty good.

I want to start off with a couple of statements, and you will agree:

1. Designers are good people. I have never heard a designer say, “I don’t care if somebody can’t read this text”, “Not my fault if somebody can’t use this device”, or “Who cares if this is confusing?”
2. Some designs exclude people. You have seen people unable to read the text on a website or app that somebody designed. You’ve seen people unable to use a physical device that somebody has designed. You’ve seen people utterly bamboozled while trying to use a service that somebody designed.

So what?

The first question is, “Is this life-or-death stuff?” The answer is, “Yes.” In my favorite essay, This Is All There Is, Aral Balkan makes the point that pretty much everything that we design can affect life events and death events. Aral gives the example of how even a straightforward bus timetable app can affect life and death events, if we design it badly:

• somebody might miss a life event, such as their daughter’s fifth birthday party; or
• somebody might miss a death event, such as the chance to say goodbye to a dying grandmother.

The next—and frustrating—question is, “Why do some designs still exclude people?” After all, we know that:

• not everybody can see perfectly;
• not everybody can hear perfectly;
• not everybody thinks the same way; and
• not everybody moves the same way.

I think the answer is that there’s too much to recall. Consider, if you will, the wide variety of topics that A List Apart articles cover. Designers are expected to remember all of that guidance, plus all of the accessibility guidance, plus so much more. It is too much.

Recognizing accessibility issues while designing

I’d like to point toward one possible solution, starting from Jakob Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design. These are from the mid-1990s, and—although there’s a good chance that you, gentle reader, are a lot younger than that—please bear with me. 

Seeing as the problem is that there’s too much to recall, I want to look at heuristic № 6, “Recognition rather than Recall.” Jakob Nielsen said that for users, information required to use the design should be visible or easily retrievable when needed. I suggest we tweak that to make life easier for designers. Let’s say that the information required to produce the design should be visible or easily retrievable when needed. In other words, let’s make it easier to recognise accessibility issues while we’re designing.

How are we going to do that? I really like the book A Web for Everyone—Designing Accessible User Experiences by Sarah Horton and Whitney Quesenbery. I really like this book not only because it includes a quote from me—actually two quotes, but I don’t like to boast—but because it includes personas that are perfect for helping us to recognise accessibility issues. That’s the good news. The even better news is that these personas are available now for free on the companion website to the book What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility, again by Sarah Horton, with David Sloan this time.

Meet your users

I’m going to introduce you to these personas now:

• Vishnu, an engineer and global citizen with low vision says, “I want to be on the same level as everyone else”, “If I can adjust my screen, I can read comfortably”, and, “Translating in my head is easier with simpler sentences.”
• Trevor, a high school student with autism, says, “I like consistent, familiar places on the web”, “When I can learn the pattern, I can find my way”, and, “Reading is hard for me”.
• Steven, a deaf graphic artist and American Sign Language speaker, says, “My only disability is that everyone doesn’t sign”, and, “Without captions, it’s meaningless to me”.
• Maria, a bilingual community health worker, says, “I love this. It’s all here … when I can find it”, “When a site is confusing, I just leave”—fair enough, Maria!—and, “When I hear and see it, health information makes more sense”.
• Lea, an editor living with fatigue and pain, says, “No one gets that this really is a disability”, “Don’t make me work so hard”—please do not bombard this lady with drop-down lists—and, “Links at the top of the page make navigation easier for me”.
• Jacob, a blind paralegal and a bit of a geek, says, “The right technology lets me do anything”, and “This makes it possible to do my job”.
• Emily, who has cerebral palsy and is living independently, says, “I want to do everything for myself”, “Simpler screens are easier screens”—hell yeah, Emily!—and, “Tell me what I need in advance”.
• Carol, a grandmother with macular degeneration which affects her sight, says, “My grandkids are dragging me into the world of technology”, “I don’t understand what the screen is saying”, and, “Why can’t the text be just a little bit larger?”

I want to throw one more persona at you now, because, well, A List Apart readers are overachievers. One of my favorite authors, Cennydd Bowles—who literally wrote the book on Future Ethics—says to create Personas Non Grata. In other words, every time we design something, we have to think about what a bad guy could do with that thing, and whom that might affect.

To actually use these personas while designing, I like what Eric Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher in Design for Real Life call the Designated Dissenter: for each project that you work on, one of your teams should be responsible for asking, “Will this work for Vishnu?”, “How’s Trevor going to get on with this?”, and so on. 

Then, once you’ve used the personas to recognise the accessibility issues, you can look up the guidelines for whichever platforms you’re designing for: 

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2
• Accessibility designing — Material Design 3
• Accessibility — Windows apps
• Accessibility | Apple Developer Documentation
• Check your interface for accessibility (Ubuntu)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it

I told you in the introduction of this article that I would give you homework. You thought I was joking. So, here’s your homework: I want you to grab the personas from the Know About Accessibility website, and use them throughout every design project to help you recognise accessibility issues while you work—and reclaim design for everyone.

NOTE: This article is based on “Recognise,” my five-minute presentation from Interaction Design Association (IxDA) Dublin’s Defuse (Design for Use) event in 2025.

Throughout movie history, certain releases have been pulled from theaters immediately or after only a brief run because of controversy, legal trouble, tragedy, audience backlash, or disastrous box office results. In some cases, the withdrawal made the movie more famous than the release itself. Here are fifteen movies that were immediately pulled from theaters after release.

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Evil Dead Burn is going to swallow Sam Raimi‘s soul. Okay, okay, that’s going too far. But the latest trailer for the next entry in the horror franchise features both the audacious camera movements that have been the director’s calling card since he made The Evil Dead in 1981, but it also inserts something new for the series: a plot.

The trailer has lots of nastiness, as someone with a car seat headrest in their face chases a couple into a family home. But it also sets up some character stakes, with the loss of a family member driving a person to read from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, the Book of the Dead, on purpose. Intentionally. Not by accident.

That’s a pretty huge change from previous Evil Dead movies. From the first two films and Army of Darkness, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, to the 2013 remake and 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, reading from the Necronomicon draws the attention of Deadites that possess the living.

However, no one in those movies does it on purpose, at least not to raise the dead. In the first two Evil Deads and Evil Dead Rise, the reading comes via recordings. In Army of Darkness and the 2013 remake, characters intentionally read from the book, but the former because it will allow him to time travel back to the present and the latter because the guy is a curious dummy.

Directed by Sébastien Vaniček, who co-wrote the script with Florent Bernard, Evil Dead Burn raises the emotional stakes of the story by giving someone reason to read the Book of the Dead. Souheila Yacoub plays Alice, a recent widow who retreats to her in-law’s home to share in the grieving. Somehow, she discovers the Necronomicon in a garbage bag, which apparently belonged to the husband’s grandfather. Even though the shot in the trailer shows a bloodied Hunter Doohan (Muse from Daredevil: Born Again) saying that his grandfather believed the book would summon the devil, it’s clear that Alice sees it as a way to possibly reunite with her beloved husband.

That’s a little more plot and character than we usually get in an Evil Dead movie. Sure, Evil Dead II gives Ash time to lament the death of his girlfriend, the 2013 movie has a drug addiction plot to explain why the protagonists have gone to a secluded cabin, and there’s some sibling tension in Evil Dead Rise. But character dynamics rarely drive the plots, which are mostly about Deadites doing terrible things.

To be clear, the Evil Dead Burn trailer has a lot of terrible stuff being done by Deadites. Lots of nastiness occurs in the clip, including a good object lesson for anyone who needs to teach young children how to properly load a dishwasher.

If they can maintain the level of intense brutality we expect while delivering well-rounded character, then Vaniček and Bernard could add an interesting new chapter to the story that Raimi started.

Evil Dead Burn arrives on July 10, 2026.

The post Evil Dead Burn Trailer Features a Major Twist on the Usual Formula appeared first on Den of Geek.

While many performers commit completely to a role, that’s their job after all, not every experience turns out the way they might expect. Difficult productions, creative conflicts, or extreme preparation demands can leave an actor feeling like they put in more than they got out. In some cases, actors later expressed disappointment, second thoughts, or regret about how a role impacted their career or personal experience. Here are fifteen actors who went on to regret their commitment to a role.

The post 15 Actors Who Went on to Regret Their Commitment to a Role appeared first on Den of Geek.

Evil Dead Burn is going to swallow Sam Raimi‘s soul. Okay, okay, that’s going too far. But the latest trailer for the next entry in the horror franchise features both the audacious camera movements that have been the director’s calling card since he made The Evil Dead in 1981, but it also inserts something new for the series: a plot.

The trailer has lots of nastiness, as someone with a car seat headrest in their face chases a couple into a family home. But it also sets up some character stakes, with the loss of a family member driving a person to read from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, the Book of the Dead, on purpose. Intentionally. Not by accident.

That’s a pretty huge change from previous Evil Dead movies. From the first two films and Army of Darkness, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, to the 2013 remake and 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, reading from the Necronomicon draws the attention of Deadites that possess the living.

However, no one in those movies does it on purpose, at least not to raise the dead. In the first two Evil Deads and Evil Dead Rise, the reading comes via recordings. In Army of Darkness and the 2013 remake, characters intentionally read from the book, but the former because it will allow him to time travel back to the present and the latter because the guy is a curious dummy.

Directed by Sébastien Vaniček, who co-wrote the script with Florent Bernard, Evil Dead Burn raises the emotional stakes of the story by giving someone reason to read the Book of the Dead. Souheila Yacoub plays Alice, a recent widow who retreats to her in-law’s home to share in the grieving. Somehow, she discovers the Necronomicon in a garbage bag, which apparently belonged to the husband’s grandfather. Even though the shot in the trailer shows a bloodied Hunter Doohan (Muse from Daredevil: Born Again) saying that his grandfather believed the book would summon the devil, it’s clear that Alice sees it as a way to possibly reunite with her beloved husband.

That’s a little more plot and character than we usually get in an Evil Dead movie. Sure, Evil Dead II gives Ash time to lament the death of his girlfriend, the 2013 movie has a drug addiction plot to explain why the protagonists have gone to a secluded cabin, and there’s some sibling tension in Evil Dead Rise. But character dynamics rarely drive the plots, which are mostly about Deadites doing terrible things.

To be clear, the Evil Dead Burn trailer has a lot of terrible stuff being done by Deadites. Lots of nastiness occurs in the clip, including a good object lesson for anyone who needs to teach young children how to properly load a dishwasher.

If they can maintain the level of intense brutality we expect while delivering well-rounded character, then Vaniček and Bernard could add an interesting new chapter to the story that Raimi started.

Evil Dead Burn arrives on July 10, 2026.

The post Evil Dead Burn Trailer Features a Major Twist on the Usual Formula appeared first on Den of Geek.

Olivia Newton-John built her career across music and film, becoming one of the most recognizable figures of the 1970s and 1980s. From her early musical success to her transformation into a worldwide film icon, she remained unmistakably Olivia Newton-John. Here are fifteen photos remembering her undeniable star.

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Evil Dead Burn is going to swallow Sam Raimi‘s soul. Okay, okay, that’s going too far. But the latest trailer for the next entry in the horror franchise features both the audacious camera movements that have been the director’s calling card since he made The Evil Dead in 1981, but it also inserts something new for the series: a plot.

The trailer has lots of nastiness, as someone with a car seat headrest in their face chases a couple into a family home. But it also sets up some character stakes, with the loss of a family member driving a person to read from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, the Book of the Dead, on purpose. Intentionally. Not by accident.

That’s a pretty huge change from previous Evil Dead movies. From the first two films and Army of Darkness, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, to the 2013 remake and 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, reading from the Necronomicon draws the attention of Deadites that possess the living.

However, no one in those movies does it on purpose, at least not to raise the dead. In the first two Evil Deads and Evil Dead Rise, the reading comes via recordings. In Army of Darkness and the 2013 remake, characters intentionally read from the book, but the former because it will allow him to time travel back to the present and the latter because the guy is a curious dummy.

Directed by Sébastien Vaniček, who co-wrote the script with Florent Bernard, Evil Dead Burn raises the emotional stakes of the story by giving someone reason to read the Book of the Dead. Souheila Yacoub plays Alice, a recent widow who retreats to her in-law’s home to share in the grieving. Somehow, she discovers the Necronomicon in a garbage bag, which apparently belonged to the husband’s grandfather. Even though the shot in the trailer shows a bloodied Hunter Doohan (Muse from Daredevil: Born Again) saying that his grandfather believed the book would summon the devil, it’s clear that Alice sees it as a way to possibly reunite with her beloved husband.

That’s a little more plot and character than we usually get in an Evil Dead movie. Sure, Evil Dead II gives Ash time to lament the death of his girlfriend, the 2013 movie has a drug addiction plot to explain why the protagonists have gone to a secluded cabin, and there’s some sibling tension in Evil Dead Rise. But character dynamics rarely drive the plots, which are mostly about Deadites doing terrible things.

To be clear, the Evil Dead Burn trailer has a lot of terrible stuff being done by Deadites. Lots of nastiness occurs in the clip, including a good object lesson for anyone who needs to teach young children how to properly load a dishwasher.

If they can maintain the level of intense brutality we expect while delivering well-rounded character, then Vaniček and Bernard could add an interesting new chapter to the story that Raimi started.

Evil Dead Burn arrives on July 10, 2026.

The post Evil Dead Burn Trailer Features a Major Twist on the Usual Formula appeared first on Den of Geek.

This The Terror: The Devil in Silver review is Spoiler-Free. When the first season of AMC’s The Terror premiered in 2018, it seemed an odd choice for a franchise, likely because it wasn’t supposed to be one. An adaptation of Dan Simmons’ novel of the same name, the critically-acclaimed limited series dramatized the real-life story […]

The post The Terror: Devil in Silver Review – Dan Stevens Battles Monsters Both Human and Horrific appeared first on Den of Geek.

Evil Dead Burn is going to swallow Sam Raimi‘s soul. Okay, okay, that’s going too far. But the latest trailer for the next entry in the horror franchise features both the audacious camera movements that have been the director’s calling card since he made The Evil Dead in 1981, but it also inserts something new for the series: a plot.

The trailer has lots of nastiness, as someone with a car seat headrest in their face chases a couple into a family home. But it also sets up some character stakes, with the loss of a family member driving a person to read from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, the Book of the Dead, on purpose. Intentionally. Not by accident.

That’s a pretty huge change from previous Evil Dead movies. From the first two films and Army of Darkness, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, to the 2013 remake and 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, reading from the Necronomicon draws the attention of Deadites that possess the living.

However, no one in those movies does it on purpose, at least not to raise the dead. In the first two Evil Deads and Evil Dead Rise, the reading comes via recordings. In Army of Darkness and the 2013 remake, characters intentionally read from the book, but the former because it will allow him to time travel back to the present and the latter because the guy is a curious dummy.

Directed by Sébastien Vaniček, who co-wrote the script with Florent Bernard, Evil Dead Burn raises the emotional stakes of the story by giving someone reason to read the Book of the Dead. Souheila Yacoub plays Alice, a recent widow who retreats to her in-law’s home to share in the grieving. Somehow, she discovers the Necronomicon in a garbage bag, which apparently belonged to the husband’s grandfather. Even though the shot in the trailer shows a bloodied Hunter Doohan (Muse from Daredevil: Born Again) saying that his grandfather believed the book would summon the devil, it’s clear that Alice sees it as a way to possibly reunite with her beloved husband.

That’s a little more plot and character than we usually get in an Evil Dead movie. Sure, Evil Dead II gives Ash time to lament the death of his girlfriend, the 2013 movie has a drug addiction plot to explain why the protagonists have gone to a secluded cabin, and there’s some sibling tension in Evil Dead Rise. But character dynamics rarely drive the plots, which are mostly about Deadites doing terrible things.

To be clear, the Evil Dead Burn trailer has a lot of terrible stuff being done by Deadites. Lots of nastiness occurs in the clip, including a good object lesson for anyone who needs to teach young children how to properly load a dishwasher.

If they can maintain the level of intense brutality we expect while delivering well-rounded character, then Vaniček and Bernard could add an interesting new chapter to the story that Raimi started.

Evil Dead Burn arrives on July 10, 2026.

The post Evil Dead Burn Trailer Features a Major Twist on the Usual Formula appeared first on Den of Geek.

It’s become cliché in modern pop culture discourse to lament they couldn’t make The Lord of the Rings today like they did at the turn of the century. When Peter Jackson came down from the proverbial Mountains of Moria, he and an army of craftspeople brought with them a set of movies that combined a […]

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Evil Dead Burn is going to swallow Sam Raimi‘s soul. Okay, okay, that’s going too far. But the latest trailer for the next entry in the horror franchise features both the audacious camera movements that have been the director’s calling card since he made The Evil Dead in 1981, but it also inserts something new for the series: a plot.

The trailer has lots of nastiness, as someone with a car seat headrest in their face chases a couple into a family home. But it also sets up some character stakes, with the loss of a family member driving a person to read from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, the Book of the Dead, on purpose. Intentionally. Not by accident.

That’s a pretty huge change from previous Evil Dead movies. From the first two films and Army of Darkness, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, to the 2013 remake and 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, reading from the Necronomicon draws the attention of Deadites that possess the living.

However, no one in those movies does it on purpose, at least not to raise the dead. In the first two Evil Deads and Evil Dead Rise, the reading comes via recordings. In Army of Darkness and the 2013 remake, characters intentionally read from the book, but the former because it will allow him to time travel back to the present and the latter because the guy is a curious dummy.

Directed by Sébastien Vaniček, who co-wrote the script with Florent Bernard, Evil Dead Burn raises the emotional stakes of the story by giving someone reason to read the Book of the Dead. Souheila Yacoub plays Alice, a recent widow who retreats to her in-law’s home to share in the grieving. Somehow, she discovers the Necronomicon in a garbage bag, which apparently belonged to the husband’s grandfather. Even though the shot in the trailer shows a bloodied Hunter Doohan (Muse from Daredevil: Born Again) saying that his grandfather believed the book would summon the devil, it’s clear that Alice sees it as a way to possibly reunite with her beloved husband.

That’s a little more plot and character than we usually get in an Evil Dead movie. Sure, Evil Dead II gives Ash time to lament the death of his girlfriend, the 2013 movie has a drug addiction plot to explain why the protagonists have gone to a secluded cabin, and there’s some sibling tension in Evil Dead Rise. But character dynamics rarely drive the plots, which are mostly about Deadites doing terrible things.

To be clear, the Evil Dead Burn trailer has a lot of terrible stuff being done by Deadites. Lots of nastiness occurs in the clip, including a good object lesson for anyone who needs to teach young children how to properly load a dishwasher.

If they can maintain the level of intense brutality we expect while delivering well-rounded character, then Vaniček and Bernard could add an interesting new chapter to the story that Raimi started.

Evil Dead Burn arrives on July 10, 2026.

The post Evil Dead Burn Trailer Features a Major Twist on the Usual Formula appeared first on Den of Geek.

“Tell me what you remember,” says a voice at the start of the new trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey. For some watching, that’s a loaded question. The Odyssey is obviously one of the most important works of Western literature, a foundational epic that has influenced centuries of myths and stories. The Odyssey is also […]

The post The Odyssey Trailer Breakdown: Trojan Horse, Robert Pattinson, Cyclops, and More appeared first on Den of Geek.

Evil Dead Burn is going to swallow Sam Raimi‘s soul. Okay, okay, that’s going too far. But the latest trailer for the next entry in the horror franchise features both the audacious camera movements that have been the director’s calling card since he made The Evil Dead in 1981, but it also inserts something new for the series: a plot.

The trailer has lots of nastiness, as someone with a car seat headrest in their face chases a couple into a family home. But it also sets up some character stakes, with the loss of a family member driving a person to read from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, the Book of the Dead, on purpose. Intentionally. Not by accident.

That’s a pretty huge change from previous Evil Dead movies. From the first two films and Army of Darkness, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, to the 2013 remake and 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, reading from the Necronomicon draws the attention of Deadites that possess the living.

However, no one in those movies does it on purpose, at least not to raise the dead. In the first two Evil Deads and Evil Dead Rise, the reading comes via recordings. In Army of Darkness and the 2013 remake, characters intentionally read from the book, but the former because it will allow him to time travel back to the present and the latter because the guy is a curious dummy.

Directed by Sébastien Vaniček, who co-wrote the script with Florent Bernard, Evil Dead Burn raises the emotional stakes of the story by giving someone reason to read the Book of the Dead. Souheila Yacoub plays Alice, a recent widow who retreats to her in-law’s home to share in the grieving. Somehow, she discovers the Necronomicon in a garbage bag, which apparently belonged to the husband’s grandfather. Even though the shot in the trailer shows a bloodied Hunter Doohan (Muse from Daredevil: Born Again) saying that his grandfather believed the book would summon the devil, it’s clear that Alice sees it as a way to possibly reunite with her beloved husband.

That’s a little more plot and character than we usually get in an Evil Dead movie. Sure, Evil Dead II gives Ash time to lament the death of his girlfriend, the 2013 movie has a drug addiction plot to explain why the protagonists have gone to a secluded cabin, and there’s some sibling tension in Evil Dead Rise. But character dynamics rarely drive the plots, which are mostly about Deadites doing terrible things.

To be clear, the Evil Dead Burn trailer has a lot of terrible stuff being done by Deadites. Lots of nastiness occurs in the clip, including a good object lesson for anyone who needs to teach young children how to properly load a dishwasher.

If they can maintain the level of intense brutality we expect while delivering well-rounded character, then Vaniček and Bernard could add an interesting new chapter to the story that Raimi started.

Evil Dead Burn arrives on July 10, 2026.

The post Evil Dead Burn Trailer Features a Major Twist on the Usual Formula appeared first on Den of Geek.

They say you can’t go home again. But what if sometimes — at least in the movies — you can? That’s basically the premise behind Chasing Summer, an indie comedy about going back where you came from to find yourself once more. This is, of course, fairly well-trod ground thematically speaking — there’s basically an […]

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Evil Dead Burn is going to swallow Sam Raimi‘s soul. Okay, okay, that’s going too far. But the latest trailer for the next entry in the horror franchise features both the audacious camera movements that have been the director’s calling card since he made The Evil Dead in 1981, but it also inserts something new for the series: a plot.

The trailer has lots of nastiness, as someone with a car seat headrest in their face chases a couple into a family home. But it also sets up some character stakes, with the loss of a family member driving a person to read from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, the Book of the Dead, on purpose. Intentionally. Not by accident.

That’s a pretty huge change from previous Evil Dead movies. From the first two films and Army of Darkness, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, to the 2013 remake and 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, reading from the Necronomicon draws the attention of Deadites that possess the living.

However, no one in those movies does it on purpose, at least not to raise the dead. In the first two Evil Deads and Evil Dead Rise, the reading comes via recordings. In Army of Darkness and the 2013 remake, characters intentionally read from the book, but the former because it will allow him to time travel back to the present and the latter because the guy is a curious dummy.

Directed by Sébastien Vaniček, who co-wrote the script with Florent Bernard, Evil Dead Burn raises the emotional stakes of the story by giving someone reason to read the Book of the Dead. Souheila Yacoub plays Alice, a recent widow who retreats to her in-law’s home to share in the grieving. Somehow, she discovers the Necronomicon in a garbage bag, which apparently belonged to the husband’s grandfather. Even though the shot in the trailer shows a bloodied Hunter Doohan (Muse from Daredevil: Born Again) saying that his grandfather believed the book would summon the devil, it’s clear that Alice sees it as a way to possibly reunite with her beloved husband.

That’s a little more plot and character than we usually get in an Evil Dead movie. Sure, Evil Dead II gives Ash time to lament the death of his girlfriend, the 2013 movie has a drug addiction plot to explain why the protagonists have gone to a secluded cabin, and there’s some sibling tension in Evil Dead Rise. But character dynamics rarely drive the plots, which are mostly about Deadites doing terrible things.

To be clear, the Evil Dead Burn trailer has a lot of terrible stuff being done by Deadites. Lots of nastiness occurs in the clip, including a good object lesson for anyone who needs to teach young children how to properly load a dishwasher.

If they can maintain the level of intense brutality we expect while delivering well-rounded character, then Vaniček and Bernard could add an interesting new chapter to the story that Raimi started.

Evil Dead Burn arrives on July 10, 2026.

The post Evil Dead Burn Trailer Features a Major Twist on the Usual Formula appeared first on Den of Geek.

As the booming success of Michael reminds us, biopics might be the most rigid and uncomplicated of film genres. Portray the subject as a morally-upright genius, hit a couple of big points from Wikipedia, and include lots of stuff that people love to reward the audience for their very good taste. Throw it all on […]

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Evil Dead Burn is going to swallow Sam Raimi‘s soul. Okay, okay, that’s going too far. But the latest trailer for the next entry in the horror franchise features both the audacious camera movements that have been the director’s calling card since he made The Evil Dead in 1981, but it also inserts something new for the series: a plot.

The trailer has lots of nastiness, as someone with a car seat headrest in their face chases a couple into a family home. But it also sets up some character stakes, with the loss of a family member driving a person to read from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, the Book of the Dead, on purpose. Intentionally. Not by accident.

That’s a pretty huge change from previous Evil Dead movies. From the first two films and Army of Darkness, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, to the 2013 remake and 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, reading from the Necronomicon draws the attention of Deadites that possess the living.

However, no one in those movies does it on purpose, at least not to raise the dead. In the first two Evil Deads and Evil Dead Rise, the reading comes via recordings. In Army of Darkness and the 2013 remake, characters intentionally read from the book, but the former because it will allow him to time travel back to the present and the latter because the guy is a curious dummy.

Directed by Sébastien Vaniček, who co-wrote the script with Florent Bernard, Evil Dead Burn raises the emotional stakes of the story by giving someone reason to read the Book of the Dead. Souheila Yacoub plays Alice, a recent widow who retreats to her in-law’s home to share in the grieving. Somehow, she discovers the Necronomicon in a garbage bag, which apparently belonged to the husband’s grandfather. Even though the shot in the trailer shows a bloodied Hunter Doohan (Muse from Daredevil: Born Again) saying that his grandfather believed the book would summon the devil, it’s clear that Alice sees it as a way to possibly reunite with her beloved husband.

That’s a little more plot and character than we usually get in an Evil Dead movie. Sure, Evil Dead II gives Ash time to lament the death of his girlfriend, the 2013 movie has a drug addiction plot to explain why the protagonists have gone to a secluded cabin, and there’s some sibling tension in Evil Dead Rise. But character dynamics rarely drive the plots, which are mostly about Deadites doing terrible things.

To be clear, the Evil Dead Burn trailer has a lot of terrible stuff being done by Deadites. Lots of nastiness occurs in the clip, including a good object lesson for anyone who needs to teach young children how to properly load a dishwasher.

If they can maintain the level of intense brutality we expect while delivering well-rounded character, then Vaniček and Bernard could add an interesting new chapter to the story that Raimi started.

Evil Dead Burn arrives on July 10, 2026.

The post Evil Dead Burn Trailer Features a Major Twist on the Usual Formula appeared first on Den of Geek.

Evil Dead Burn is going to swallow Sam Raimi‘s soul. Okay, okay, that’s going too far. But the latest trailer for the next entry in the horror franchise features both the audacious camera movements that have been the director’s calling card since he made The Evil Dead in 1981, but it also inserts something new […]

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Evil Dead Burn is going to swallow Sam Raimi‘s soul. Okay, okay, that’s going too far. But the latest trailer for the next entry in the horror franchise features both the audacious camera movements that have been the director’s calling card since he made The Evil Dead in 1981, but it also inserts something new for the series: a plot.

The trailer has lots of nastiness, as someone with a car seat headrest in their face chases a couple into a family home. But it also sets up some character stakes, with the loss of a family member driving a person to read from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, the Book of the Dead, on purpose. Intentionally. Not by accident.

That’s a pretty huge change from previous Evil Dead movies. From the first two films and Army of Darkness, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, to the 2013 remake and 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, reading from the Necronomicon draws the attention of Deadites that possess the living.

However, no one in those movies does it on purpose, at least not to raise the dead. In the first two Evil Deads and Evil Dead Rise, the reading comes via recordings. In Army of Darkness and the 2013 remake, characters intentionally read from the book, but the former because it will allow him to time travel back to the present and the latter because the guy is a curious dummy.

Directed by Sébastien Vaniček, who co-wrote the script with Florent Bernard, Evil Dead Burn raises the emotional stakes of the story by giving someone reason to read the Book of the Dead. Souheila Yacoub plays Alice, a recent widow who retreats to her in-law’s home to share in the grieving. Somehow, she discovers the Necronomicon in a garbage bag, which apparently belonged to the husband’s grandfather. Even though the shot in the trailer shows a bloodied Hunter Doohan (Muse from Daredevil: Born Again) saying that his grandfather believed the book would summon the devil, it’s clear that Alice sees it as a way to possibly reunite with her beloved husband.

That’s a little more plot and character than we usually get in an Evil Dead movie. Sure, Evil Dead II gives Ash time to lament the death of his girlfriend, the 2013 movie has a drug addiction plot to explain why the protagonists have gone to a secluded cabin, and there’s some sibling tension in Evil Dead Rise. But character dynamics rarely drive the plots, which are mostly about Deadites doing terrible things.

To be clear, the Evil Dead Burn trailer has a lot of terrible stuff being done by Deadites. Lots of nastiness occurs in the clip, including a good object lesson for anyone who needs to teach young children how to properly load a dishwasher.

If they can maintain the level of intense brutality we expect while delivering well-rounded character, then Vaniček and Bernard could add an interesting new chapter to the story that Raimi started.

Evil Dead Burn arrives on July 10, 2026.

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