Evil Dead Burn Filming Locations and Cast Details

Evil Dead Burn does not need a sprawling map of locations to make its world frightening. Like the best entries in Sam Raimi’s horror franchise, Sébastien Vaniček’s film understands the value of trapping people somewhere they cannot easily escape. The sixth Evil Dead movie centers on Alice (Souheila Yacoub), who joins the troubled Price family following the death of her husband, Will. Their gathering takes place at an old, isolated family home, where grief, longstanding resentment and the family’s connection to the Book of the Dead quickly become something far more dangerous.

Although the story is presented as taking place in the United States, Evil Dead Burn was filmed in New Zealand. Production was concentrated in and around Auckland, or Tāmaki Makaurau, continuing a remarkably long relationship between the Evil Dead franchise and New Zealand’s screen industry. The filmmakers also found a particularly interesting real property for the Price family home, one that already had both Hollywood and Evil Dead history before Vaniček arrived.

Where was “Evil Dead Burn” Filmed?

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland served as the production center for Evil Dead Burn. The New Zealand Cinematographers Society reported before filming that the production would work in Tāmaki Makaurau from July through October 2025, while IMDb’s completed location records identify Auckland as the film’s principal shooting location.

That does not mean viewers should expect recognizable Auckland skyscrapers or tourist landmarks. Vaniček’s story is deliberately cut off from metropolitan life. Auckland instead gave the production access to rural properties around the city, experienced horror crews, effects specialists and facilities capable of supporting technically demanding interiors.

This is an important distinction when discussing the film’s locations. No reliable production record currently identifies central Auckland landmarks as places seen in the movie. The region was the filmmaking base, but Burn uses it to manufacture an anonymous, deteriorating corner of America rather than advertise New Zealand on screen.

Coatesville Becomes the Price Family Home

The most important Evil Dead Burn location is the Price family’s decaying house. Production designer Nick Bassett has been credited with suggesting the same Auckland-area property previously used in Ash vs Evil Dead. Dread Central reported Bassett’s confirmation that the production intentionally returned to the real house for Vaniček’s film.

The property is the historic Plumley House, also known as Seamer House. It now stands at 162 Sunnyside Road in Coatesville, north of central Auckland. Remuera Heritage records that the house was originally built around 1915 on Remuera Road before being sold for removal in the 1990s and transported to its current rural site.

That relocation explains why the house works so convincingly as an isolated family estate. Instead of sitting on its original suburban lot, the large timber residence now occupies rolling countryside, giving cinematographer Philip Lozano room to frame it as a place removed from neighbors and immediate help.

The property is privately owned, so it should not be treated as a conventional visitor attraction simply because it appears in the movie.

A House With Its Own Screen History

Plumley House has had an unusually busy life in front of cameras. Long before Deadites moved in, the property was used for the 2009 family science-fiction comedy Aliens in the Attic. Remuera Heritage reports that filmmakers spent heavily restoring the property before that production.

More significantly for horror fans, the same physical house appeared in Ash vs Evil Dead. That immediately sparked speculation that Burn was secretly returning to an established location within the series’ mythology. Bassett’s involvement strengthened the connection because he previously worked as production designer on Ash vs Evil Dead and Evil Dead Rise.

The reuse should not automatically be interpreted to mean the Price residence and Ruby’s home are literally the same house within the story. The finished film does not establish that simply through geography. What is certain is more interesting from a filming perspective: the Evil Dead production family deliberately returned to a property it already knew and transformed it again for a different branch of the franchise.

The House Drives the Horror

The residence is not merely an exterior establishing shot. Much of Evil Dead Burn unfolds inside the Price family’s deteriorating home, including the tense family dinner, the attic material and the escalating Deadite attacks. Hunter Doohan, who plays Joseph, described spending three days filming the dinner sequence alone.

Whether every interior room viewers see was photographed inside Plumley House has not been publicly documented. Productions of this scale commonly combine a practical exterior with rebuilt interiors when walls need to move, effects rigs must be concealed or cameras require space unavailable inside a real property. No dependable source has yet identified the specific Auckland soundstage or warehouse used for Burn, so naming Kumeū Film Studios, Auckland Film Studios or another facility as the movie’s studio would currently be speculation.

What is clear from the finished film and cast accounts is how extensively the house was engineered around the action. Rooms cease to behave like ordinary domestic spaces once the carnage starts. Stairways, the dining area, attic and everyday household objects become part of the physical choreography.

Practical Effects Shaped the Sets

New Zealand’s experienced practical-effects workforce was particularly useful for a movie where actors had to interact directly with gore rather than perform everything against digital markers. Local horror coverage identified New Zealand special-effects supervisor Brendon Durey among the crew working on Burn. The film also employed numerous New Zealand performers, including Tandi Wright, Luciane Buchanan, Erroll Shand and Maude Davey.

Doohan’s stories from production underline how physical the shoot became. For one notorious head-smashing sequence, effects artists created a limited supply of breakable replicas. Doohan pushed to perform the action himself, and the fake heads were packed with material including banana pieces to simulate their contents.

That tactile approach is especially important in an Evil Dead movie. The locations have to survive being sprayed, struck, broken and reset repeatedly. A picturesque house by itself would not be enough.

The Car Sequence Took Days

Not every major sequence was confined to the Price house. One of the film’s most complicated scenes unfolds inside a car, and Doohan revealed that filming the sequence took four or five days, separate from rehearsals with the stunt team.

The performers largely worked through the sequence in story order because injuries and physical damage accumulate as the scene progresses. Shooting inside a vehicle also created the familiar logistical nightmare of squeezing actors, cameras, stunt performers and equipment into an extremely limited space.

The precise road or Auckland property used for the exterior component has not been publicly identified. Until production records provide one, it is safer to list the sequence as part of the Auckland shoot rather than attach an unsupported road name.

When Was Evil Dead Burn Filmed?

Principal photography officially began on July 22, 2025, when Vaniček marked his first shooting day from New Zealand. Production continued for nearly three months and wrapped on October 17, 2025. Industry reporting before cameras rolled had already placed the project in Auckland from July through October.

The dates line up neatly with New Zealand’s winter and early spring, useful conditions for a story that benefits from wet ground, subdued light and an inhospitable rural atmosphere.

Evil Dead Burn Was Not Filmed as Evil Dead Wrath

There is one production detail worth correcting because the two projects are easy to confuse. Evil Dead Wrath was not the working title of Evil Dead Burn. Vaniček was publicly using the Evil Dead Burn title when filming began in July 2025.

Evil Dead Wrath is a separate seventh Evil Dead movie directed by Francis Galluppi. The Screen Guild of New Zealand reported in October 2025 that Wrath was following Burn into Auckland production, and filming on that project subsequently began in 2026.

The confusion is understandable because both movies were developed close together and both chose Auckland, but they are distinct productions with different filmmakers and stories.

Evil Dead Burn Cast

Souheila Yacoub leads Evil Dead Burn as Alice, the grieving widow whose attempt to find comfort with her late husband’s family puts her at the center of the Deadite nightmare. Yacoub is best known internationally for playing Shishakli in Dune: Part Two and for her performance in Gaspar Noé’s Climax. Hunter Doohan, recognizable as Tyler Galpin from Netflix’s Wednesday and from Your Honor and Daredevil: Born Again, plays Joseph, one of the Price family members caught in the escalating horror. Luciane Buchanan, who starred as Rose Larkin in The Night Agent, appears as Thya, while New Zealand actress Tandi Wright, whose credits include Pearl, portrays Susan. The supporting cast includes Erroll Shand as Edgar Price, Maude Davey as Polly, and George Pullar as Will, Alice’s late husband, with Greta Van Den Brink also appearing in the ensemble. Together, the cast forms the troubled extended family around which Sébastien Vaniček builds the film’s increasingly brutal possession story.

New Zealand’s Evil Dead Connection

For Auckland, Burn is less a new visitor than the latest chapter in an established horror relationship. Fede Álvarez’s 2013 Evil Dead was made in New Zealand, Ash vs Evil Dead extensively used Auckland, and Lee Cronin returned to the region for Evil Dead Rise. Local horror coverage has noted that the modern franchise has become closely tied to New Zealand crews and locations.

Evil Dead Burn takes that connection one step further by recycling part of the franchise’s physical history. Plumley House had already been moved across Auckland, restored for another Hollywood movie and used by an earlier Evil Dead production before becoming the Price residence.

That makes the location unusually appropriate. The Price house is supposed to feel as though it has accumulated years of neglect, family history and things better left undisturbed. In reality, the building has been accumulating stories for more than a century. Vaniček simply gave it another particularly bloody one.