Francis Galluppi‘s Evil Dead Wrath will take place in 1972, a decade before Sam Raimi‘s original The Evil Dead. The film features the warm, grainy look of Ektachrome film stock from that era. Producer Robert Tapert says Evil Dead Wrath may push the R rating further than any previous installment.
In a recent interview with Dread Central, Francis Galluppi confirmed that Evil Dead Wrath is a prequel set decades before the previous films.
Galluppi said, “This is yet another great departure. It predates everything. It takes place in 1972.” He added, “It’s the story of a French woman in a bad marriage in America, and what we discover along the way is that she probably has an abusive husband whose family doesn’t believe her. They are basically the in-laws from hell.”
Galluppi revealed that he and his cinematographer want Evil Dead Wrath to look as though it was actually filmed in 1972, using the warm, tungsten-rich appearance of Ektachrome 100 as inspiration.
“It will feel like a 1972 movie because the director and his DP want to imitate the look and feel of something that’s called Ektachrome 100, which was a film stock… [it’s] a film stock a lot of movies [were] shot on back then. And so it’s very warm, very tungsten.”
According to Tapert, the film’s 1972 setting helped shape its visual identity, with Evil Dead Wrath adopting a warm, textured look inspired by Ektachrome film stock and the horror classics of the early ’70s.
Directed by Francis Galluppi and produced by Rob Tapert and series creator Sam Raimi, Evil Dead Wrath serves as the seventh installment in the franchise and a prequel to 1981’s The Evil Dead.
The film stars Charlotte Hope, Jessica McNamee, Zach Gilford, Josh Helman, Ella Newton, Ella Oliphant, and Elizabeth Cullen.
Evil Dead Wrath will be released theatrically on April 7, 2028, by Warner Bros. Pictures in North America and Sony Pictures Releasing internationally.
