The Book of the Dead has been reopened, and this time Universal barely gave us time to catch our breath before announcing the house.
Evil Dead Burn is coming to Halloween Horror Nights 35 as a haunted house based on the newest chapter of the legendary Evil Dead franchise, and it’s notable for just how fast this one came together.
The Evil Dead Burn house is located in Soundstage 23A at Universal Studios Florida. Halloween Horror Nights 35 runs select nights from August 28 through November 1, 2026.
This house was announced on July 21, 2026, making it one of the later haunted house reveals for HHN 35. It’s also featured at Universal Studios Hollywood, opening there on September 3.
A Remarkably Fast Turnaround
Here’s what makes this house genuinely unusual: Evil Dead Burn, the sixth film in the Evil Dead franchise, opened in U.S. theaters on July 10, 2026, and the haunted house announcement came less than two weeks later. That’s a dramatically fast turnaround compared to the franchise’s previous HHN appearances. HHN debuted a house based on Fede Álvarez’s 2013 Evil Dead remake that same year, and in 2017 the park built a house around the Ash vs. Evil Dead Starz television series, but neither of those houses was built around a film that was still actively in theaters at the time of the announcement. This year’s house also marks the franchise’s first movie-based haunted house in 13 years, since that original 2013 house.
About the Film
Evil Dead Burn is directed and co-written by French filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček, and it serves as a sequel to 2023’s Evil Dead Rise. The film continues the franchise’s long-running mythology around the Necronomicon, also known as the Book of the Dead, an ancient text that unleashes supernatural parasitic demons capable of possessing and twisting victims into “Deadites.”
In the film, a woman named Alice seeks comfort with her in-laws at their secluded family home after losing her husband, only to watch her new family become possessed one by one after the Necronomicon’s demons are unleashed.
The Official Premise
Universal’s description for the house picks up right where the film’s premise leaves off: once the Book of the Dead is reopened, an infernal force takes hold of a family home and it’s hungry for its next victim. Guests are tasked with dodging soul-sucking Deadites hell-bent on bloodshed as they make their way through the Price family’s secluded vacation home in the woods. As the nightmare grows more intense with every turn, guests are promised an increasingly ferocious wave of Deadites — culminating in a moment where guests themselves are meant to “succumb” to the evil forces around them.
Universal Studios Hollywood’s version of the tagline sums it up with a dark bit of wordplay: the Book of the Dead has been reopened, and now an infernal force consumes a family home…guests won’t just encounter the root of evil, but the whole family tree!
Built Alongside the Filmmakers
According to Lora Sauls, part of HHN’s creative team, this house had an unusually close relationship with the film’s production. The creative team was reportedly working alongside Warner Bros. even before the movie started filming, getting early access to the script and using it directly to help design the house’s layout. Original assets from the production were also provided directly to HHN’s creative team by Warner Bros., a level of access that isn’t typical for a movie-based house turned around this quickly.
A Signature Scare
One specific detail has already gotten fans talking: according to Sauls, the house opens with an animatronic Deadite Jessica head, which moves as it talks and delivers the franchise’s signature “Evil Dead curse” — a moment designed to set an ominous tone that follows guests deeper into the rest of the house.
Behind the Scenes
Ramon Paradoa served as show director and writer for the house. Internally, its development codename was “Car,” continuing HHN’s tradition of vehicle-themed codenames for its haunted houses during production.
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