‘You can’t run from a nightmare’
The Evil Within is a 2016 American horror film written and directed by the late Andrew Getty (1967–2015), grandson of billionaire Jean Paul Getty. It has no connection with the 2014 survival video game of the same name.
Co-producer Michael Luceri told press:
‘After Andrew died, I made it my mission to see that his film was completed. I have been on this project from the beginning. Andrew was such a perfectionist, each and every shot had to be perfect before he would move on. When he was young, Andrew told me that he would have these really powerful, twisted dreams, so scary that he didn’t want to believe they came from inside him, so he had this idea that it was this ’storyteller’ who created the dreams, and that became the genesis of the film’s story.’
Main cast:
Frederick Koehler (American Horror Story; Dexter; Death Race and sequels), Sean Patrick Flanery (Howlers; Saw 3D: The Final Chapter), Dina Meyer (Saw; Starship Troopers), Michael Berryman, Kim Darby (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers; Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, 1973), Francis Guinan, Brianna Brown, Tim Bagley, Greyson Turner, De Anna Joy Brooks, Nicole Brandon, David Light, David Banks, Sebastien Stella, Kevin Lee.
The Supernova LLC and Writers Studio movie is being distributed worldwide by Vision Films.
Official synopsis:
Dennis Peterson (Koehler) is a mentally challenged teen who lives with his older brother John (Flanery). While John struggles between caring for Dennis and maintaining a relationship with his increasingly impatient girlfriend Lydia (Meyer), Dennis finds a friend in his own reflection in an antique mirror. But in reality, the reflection is soon revealed to be an Evil Entity (Berryman) who is more charming, smarter and stronger than Dennis, and instructs him to do horrific things in order to ‘fix’ his brain. Tortured and confused, Dennis embarks on a murderous rampage, collecting the bodies in his basement. A police investigation, helmed by a determined social worker (Darby), targets the Peterson’s in an attempt to uncover the truth behind the murders. With the walls rapidly closing in, Dennis makes his final play… with dire results.
Filming locations:
El Mirage Dry Lake, California, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
