This Grisly ‘Evil Dead Burn’ Image Appears to Bring Back an ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Victim!

Yesterday, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema released a brand new batch of images from Evil Dead Burn. While most of them offered another look at the film’s blood-soaked nightmare, one photo immediately jumped out at me.

At first glance, it looks like nothing more than another gruesome Evil Dead image. Look a little closer, though, and you’ll notice something much more interesting.

Suspended above the water on a fishing line is what appears to be a decapitated, partially scalped head. And unless I’m seeing things, it looks an awful lot like Teresa from Evil Dead Rise!

If that’s the case, Warner Bros. may have quietly revealed our biggest connection yet between the last film and Evil Dead Burn.

Fans will remember that Evil Dead Rise opens at a remote lakeside cabin where cousins Jessica (Anna-Maree Thomas), Teresa (Mirabai Pease), and Caleb spend what quickly becomes one of the franchise’s most brutal opening sequences. After becoming possessed, Jessica smashes a broken wine bottle into Teresa’s scalp, ripping away much of her scalp before killing her. She then turns her attention to Caleb, who is gruesomely decapitated by his own drone, before Jessica rises above the lake as a fully possessed Deadite, creating one of the series’ most unforgettable closing images before the story flashes back one day earlier.

That opening has already become surprisingly important to .