Watching Evil Dead Burn is the cinematic equivalent of a cardio workout. It’s an intense, gory, brutal movie that all but begs you to stay in your seat and take a breather when it’s over. Thankfully, director Sébastien Vaniček rewards fans who stick around with not one, but two end credits scenes, one of which teases something much bigger happening in the Evil Dead universe. Let’s discuss but beware, major spoilers follow. In the first scene, located in the middle of the credits, we see that Grandma Polly’s (Maude Davey) Deadite form has survived. Yes, Alice (Souheila Yacoub) left her for dead in the burning house, but, unlike some other Price family members, we didn’t see her head brutally smashed to oblivion. So it makes sense she got out. Deadite Polly is crawling on the street when a young woman pulls her car over to help her. The young woman sees an elderly, one-legged woman on the street and feels pity. Polly just sees a new body with two legs and, we assume, kills her, passing along the Deadite curse. The Price family lives on.
Then, at the very end of the credits, we get the even more consequential scene, one that Warner Bros. didn’t include in some early screenings. We’re back at the funeral home where the Price family held Will’s funeral, the event that basically started this whole thing. Well, the undertaker there is with her young daughter, and they’re placing urns on a shelf. The undertaker explains that these are remains that families never picked up, which is quite sad. So she holds onto them for a while just in case someone does come for them eventually.
