The first in 40 years: a French participant in one of the greatest horror sagas of all time

It’s a young French director on the rise who’s on the rise… Sébastien Wanicek, who is credited with the horror film Vermines, the first French feature film with spiders, will direct the next film in the Evil Dead saga, which has been produced. By Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.

Nominated in two César categories: Best First Film and Best Visual Effects, Vermines is the filmmaker’s first feature film and has already opened to 259,269 audiences in French cinemas.

Ahead of its release, the feature film, which depicts a spider invasion of a building on the outskirts of Paris, toured festivals and notably had its world premiere at the end of critics’ week at the Venice Film Festival. This allowed Sebastien Vanicek’s first feature film to be reviewed in the international press.

The young director quickly signed a contract with the American agency CAA and recently won his first contract in the United States, as announced on the site. Deadline. He will write and direct a new spin-off for the Evil Dead franchise Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert, Ghost House Pictures. The plot details of the film are not yet known.

Similarities between Vermin and Evil Dead Rise

The film follows Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise, which hit theaters last April. Bruce CampbellSam Raimi’s Ash franchise translator and producer of the latest installment alongside Raimi told The AV Club in April that the studio was planning to expand the universe of the saga that began in 1981 and continue the plan.

“Now everything revolves around books” He previously announced that he and Sam Raimi are currently thinking about a series of anthology films. We will try to make films every two or three years, not every ten years. he added.

And so it isSebastian Vanicek which will feature a new spin-off of the successful horror franchise. Vermin and Evil Dead Rise also share similarities, as both movies have the group trapped in a building with a demon/spiders.

The release date has not been announced yet. Is waiting, pest It’s still in theaters and could make an event at the Cesar Awards on February 23rd.