Mal Nosso

Our evil is a very low budget movie that could be described as Drama, with some horrific moments/flavor. Depending on your taste, this will be exactly what you are looking for or you will dismiss it from the outright. If the latter, it's not a bad thing, on the opposite you will save yourself quite some time and nerves.

So if you stay and do like to watch a movie that is slow paced, that you could also put into the Horror genre, that does not shy away from showing violence but also has some sequences that feel unreal (as in dream like and yes intended). So it is grounded in reality in parts but feels also supernatural in others. For the latter it has been compared with a classic which I think is a bit unfair. While you could say there are elements of it in this movie, the comparison is not the right way to go. And I'm not mentioning the classic movie because I also think it's a bit of a spoiler to do so. So watch and take it in, as the slow painful ride goes on ...

Brazilian horror Our Evil was repeatedly recommended to me by someone on TikTok; when someone is THAT insistent that a film is worth my time, I have to give it a go - and they were absolutely right: Our Evil delivers tension, scenes of extreme brutality, some genuine pathos, and expertly crafted scares, with one scene in particular delivering a one-two punch that had me jumping out of my seat.

Ademir Esteves plays Arthur, who, in the film's opening, scours the dark web to find an assassin to carry out a hit. The man he contacts is Charles (Ricardo Casella), a psychopath who enjoys his work a little too much, the man killing innocent women for kicks in his spare time.

After Charles has fulfilled his latest contract, the film jumps back in time to show Arthur as a young man, who - as in The Sixth Sense - can see dead people, and who is so disturbed by his horrific visitations from the mutilated and decaying that he tries to take his own life. However, the spirit of a dead circus clown prevents him from doing so, telling Arthur that he must use his gift to save good souls from torment and to condemn the bad. And to say any more about the plot would be to spoil the film.

Along the way, we are treated to a woman being scalped and then shot in the head, two women being murdered by Charles after he procures them for sex, a couple of grisly female ghosts, and the sight of a woman tormented by a demon eating her own arm: sucks to be a woman in this film.

Our Evil does end on a happy note for Arthur and his adoptive daughter Michele, but Charles gets what he deserves (the credits roll before we see what happens to him, but we know it ain't gonna be nice!).

From what I saw in the trailer, the movie looked like a terror, like many others. But the script surprised me, there was a reason for things to happen and most of the film is a drama. A choice that can change lives and save people. There are parts of the movie that are kind of gore, but I can only remember two or three extremely violent scenes. I liked the script.

This is one of the most violent movies I have ever watched. Then, if you are unpleased with vile gore, do no watch it. That does not mean I did not like the film. Indeed, if you deal well with exploitation footage and like horror genre, you will notice that this Brazilian independent film is a gem. With at least four different segments, which complement the previous either as a sequence or as a flashback, the movie transits through various horror subgenres, always with skillful technical outcomes. The first is the most brutal and hard to watch: it is the realistic and gory, in the mondo cane style, but obviously being a slasher. Then, the film becomes quite different, with many supernatural elements, sometimes oneiric ones. Both plot twists do surpise, but prepare espectator in opposite ways. The psychopath sadist killer is one of the most evil characters I have seen in cinema, but he is just a human. At least two others are archetypal figures, and they guide the main character in his quest... in mysterious ways...

This movie had me on the edge of my seat! ( for the first 45 mins). Then it took a dive for the worse. It completely falls apart and becomes another movie. I didnt like the second half at all and I believe this could have been way better. Once again i don't write spoilers so i wont get into the aspect of the movie. I recommend this film without a doubt, But if you make a horror movie stick to horror dont jump all over the place with drama. I wont watch this again.