Evil Dead Burn’s "Horrible" Extended Dishwasher Scene & The Worst Scenes To Film Detailed By Cast & Director

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Souheila Yacoub's Alice looking scared with blood on her face in Evil Dead Burn

Published Jul 10, 2026, 3:00 PM EDT

Warning: Mild SPOILERS lie ahead for Evil Dead Burn!Sébastien Vaniček really put his cast through the wringer for Evil Dead Burn, with one scene, in particular, being a tricky experience.

Vaniček, coming on the heels of his acclaimed feature debut with the spider-centric horror film Infested, has reunited with Florent Bernard to co-write the latest installment in Sam Raimi's long-running franchise. Serving as a pseudo-sequel to 2023's Evil Dead Rise, the new film centers on Alice and her in-laws as they come together for the funeral of her late husband, only to become the latest targets of the Deadite curse thanks to a dark secret in the family's past.

Dune: Part Two's Souheila Yacoub leads the ensemble Evil Dead Burn cast as Alice alongside Wednesday's Hunter Doohan, Pearl's Tandi Wright, Chief of War's Luciana Buchanan and Our Flag Means Death's Erroll Shand, among others. Hitting theaters on July 10, the new film has garnered generally favorable reviews from critics, holding a 71% "Certified Fresh" approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ahead of the film's release, ScreenRant's Ash Crossan interviewed Sébastien Vaniček, Souheila Yacoub, Hunter Doohan and Luciane Buchanan to discuss Evil Dead Burn. When asked if there was any particular scene or sequence that proved too much to try and pull off, Vaniček actually pointed to the film's dishwasher scene, in which Buchanan's Thya, under Deadite possession, torments Doohan's Joseph around the dishwasher before he turns the tables on her.

As the co-writer/director explained, it proved one of the most complicated things in pulling off "Joseph destroying Thya's head with the dishwasher," with the first cut of the scene being comprised of "35 hits [with] no music" and only featuring "close-ups on [their] face[s]." Vaniček confessed the scene was "very horrible" to try and pull off, but was keen to keep its brutality for viewers:

Sébastien Vaniček: It was long, raw, cold. You were in a different universe. I kept the essence. I kept the physicality and the brutality, but I made sure the audience was able to breathe a little bit, and then I put them back inside it. So it was just a question of balance and energy. I was able to handle that.

When the mention of another brutal scene involving a razor is mentioned, Vaniček also shared that was "one of my battles" in making Evil Dead Burn, as certain members of the studio "want[ed] more blood" from his film, to which he would frequently argue about the realism of whether certain injuries draw blood and other ways to take the audience's breath away:

Sébastien Vaniček: I was like, “I don’t think it’s a question of blood.” Just cut your head with a razor, and you will see that it’s not dripping blood. It’s a scratch. And people who know, they will know, and they will be hurt. So I was really relieved yesterday when I saw people being like, “No, no, not the razor.” That was cool.

One Evil Dead Burn Star Got It The Worst During Filming

ScreenRant: Was that your first time watching it with an audience, by the way? Did you expect as much horror as laughter? What were you expecting?

Sébastien Vaniček: I had heard a lot about screenings in America, and I had heard a lot about the fans, but that was the first time I was in front of them. So as soon as I arrived in this amazing theater and saw all those people dressed up, and the music, I understood, “Oh, that’s a big thing.” When you are making a movie, you don’t know how big it is. It’s when it starts to come out and people start talking about it that you discover, “Okay, that’s a huge thing for people.” To discover the movie with them, and see how cheerful they were, how they wanted those moments to happen, and when they gasped, when they screamed, when they laughed — that’s the best thing you can experience as a director. Because when you are trapped in an editing room, that’s what you think about. You always think about the theatrical experience.

ScreenRant: This film just kind of kicks off and is brutal the entire time. I’m curious, for you, what was the scene you were building yourself up to the most, where you were like, “This one’s going to be a tough day”?

Souheila Yacoub: When I read the car scenes, I was like, “How are we going to shoot that?”

Hunter Doohan: Yeah. I think it was more like, “Do I remember all the beats?” Because we would rehearse it weeks before, and then shoot other things, and then it was just like, “Do I remember everything?” They’d be like, “Part two,” and I’m like, “Joe, what’s part two?” The backs of my scripts would literally be dash after dash of every little beat from that. They would record our rehearsals, yeah.

ScreenRant: What does that look like in the script? Because I imagine there’s a lot of choreography for these brutal moments. Is it specifically pages of action lines?

Souheila Yacoub: For example, I have this one scene where I stab someone, and I have this one scene where I drop a lot of knives on the floor. But it was very specific which knife had to fall in that exact place, because of the camera, because of the movement, because of the lighting, because of everything. So the movie was very specific. That’s an example of how everything had to be precise for us to end up safe.

ScreenRant: Who went through the most on set, physically, emotionally, or just prosthetic-wise?

Hunter Doohan: Oh, I think Maude did. Mostly, they aged her hands and everything.

Souheila Yacoub: Errol’s head situation. But George, my husband — it was very hard for him. Sometimes he needed to wake up at three in the morning and go to makeup. It was sticky, and it was long, and he didn’t like it. But he looked amazing.