"Poltergeist-y" aftereffects haunt the places and people he has visited - even Sarchie, who is plagued by shock-cut hallucinations and whose house has become a very scary place for his young daughter. Maybe, the lapsed-Catholic cop starts to worry, the man they're hunting really is possessed.Įnjoyably, this particular case isn't limited to one spirit-controlled victim terrorizing his family and friends. Only after other crimes prove to share both tangible connections (tracing to three Marines who had a disturbing encounter during the Iraq war) and supernatural overtones does Sarchie admit there may be something to this chain-smoking, whiskey-drinking priest's claim.
Still, Sarchie is ready to write the mother off as a garden-variety psycho even when a Jesuit priest, Ramirez's Mendoza, shows up to insist on a more complicated explanation. But an incident in which a deranged mother threw her toddler into the Bronx Zoo's lion pit is juicier than usual, with a mysterious, blood-stained bystander disrupting the investigation before vanishing. Sarchie, a cop who covers the South Bronx with partner Butler (Joel McHale), is proud of an internal "radar" that steers him away from mundane radio calls and toward the juicy cases. That audience will find "Evil" very respectful of their faith, though its nods to religion are genre-appropriate and never preachy enough to alienate the average horror fan. More aesthetically coherent if less frightening than the director's 2012 hit "Sinister," the pic has a shot at surpassing that outing commercially by virtue of its appeal to devout Catholics. Though based on claims made by real-life NYPD officer-turned-paranormal investigator Ralph Sarchie (played here by Eric Bana), the picture is stolen by a fictional character - a composite religious figure played with a predictable level of smolder by "Carlos" star Edgar Ramirez.
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