Review – The Evil One

I came here for the premise: the evil spirit of Herman Mudgett (better known to the world as H.H. Holmes, creator of the notorious “murder castle”) haunts Englewood, his old Chicago neighborhood, now largely lower-class African American. The set-up provided all kinds of potential to explore Holmes’s psychosis or at least make some points about racial inequality. Instead, incompetence smothers any chance this picture has of doing anything other than wasting nearly two hours of the audience’s time. See if desperate