{"id":22162,"date":"2016-08-30T11:41:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22162"},"modified":"2016-08-30T11:41:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:41:30","slug":"the-evil-in-us-2015-frightfest-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/30\/the-evil-in-us-2015-frightfest-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evil in Us (2015) [FrightFest 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheEvilinUs\"<\/a>A group of students heads to the island cabin one of the girl\u2019s parents just bought.\u00a0 Once there, they party like they used to, drinking and partaking in recreational drugs.\u00a0 Meanwhile, in a medical facility that looks more like a prison, tests are bring run on unwilling participants.\u00a0 Soon it becomes clear that not all is at is seems when the students start attacking each other.<\/p>\n

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The Evil in Us is written and directed by Jason William Lee who creates a movie that starts with a strong, bloody bang and builds an interesting take on the young people in a cabin story.\u00a0 He uses some of the usual tropes but replaces teenagers with twenties to mid-twenties young adults so some of the issues change as well.\u00a0 The way they handle the situation is also different a bit.\u00a0 Surprisingly, more than one of the characters were likable to this reviewer and the ordeal they go through was made more interesting because of that.\u00a0 Of course, a few stupid things are said and done along the way, but those are forgivable given that the film is fun and has some originality to it.<\/p>\n

The cast does well with their parts and feel like a group of friends that have grown apart through going their separate ways.\u00a0 They have a past in common and still care about one another, but they are more different than they used to be.\u00a0 The two cast members that come across as the best of the bunch as Behtash Fazlali as Bash and Debs Howard as Brie, both give good nuanced performances of flawed characters.\u00a0 As those in the group who admit, or somewhat admit, to their flaws, they get a bigger range to work with.\u00a0 In the leads, everyone pulls their weight, no one gives a bad performance but a few are a bit uneven.\u00a0 Fazlali and Howard\u2019s performances make up for this.<\/p>\n

As this is a horror film with gore, effects are important.\u00a0 The special effects by Michelle Clarke-Brown and Jon Funk are decent and really bloody, but one of the main pieces, near the end, looks grotesque and doesn\u2019t really work in full light.\u00a0 Supporting these special effects are the visual effects supervised by Ben Pickles.\u00a0 The effects are all a big part of the beautiful and bloody opening sequence as well as the first few scenes of the film that set the pace for the rest of the work (besides the aforementioned grotesque piece).<\/p>\n

The Evil in Us takes the youth at a cabin tropes and mixes them with a few lesser done angles and has decent characters do.\u00a0 The film takes an idea that could have been very generic and makes it fun.\u00a0 It does have its issues like the unnecessary subplot that serves very little purpose except to add clues and the epilogue that feels tacked on, but it\u2019s entertaining, has some good blood and interesting sequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of students heads to the island cabin one of the girl\u2019s parents just bought.\u00a0 Once there, they party like they used to, drinking and partaking in recreational drugs.\u00a0 Meanwhile, in a medical facility that looks more like a prison, tests are bring run on unwilling participants.\u00a0 Soon it becomes clear that not all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[174,310,477,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-22162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-cannibals","tag-e","tag-horror","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22164,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162\/revisions\/22164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}