Evil Has Many Faces

"I need something stronger!"

The other night my roommate and I decided to watch a movie on NetFlix.  After searching forever we came across the 1993 movie "The Good Son" starring Elijah Wood and Macaulay Culkin.

Talk about child actors...Macaulay Culkin was in his prime and Elijah Wood held his own against the then "it" child star.

This movie was a great psychological thriller and it gave us the Monstrous Monster know as Henry Evans, played by Macaulay Culkin.  I felt so many emotions for this character: hatred, fear, and oddly sympathetic.  This kid was obviously hurting inside but never really showed it. Instead he inflicted pain on others and had an abnormal fascination with death.

His rampage started out light then increased throughout the movie.  First he injured the neighbor's dog, then threw a dummy onto the highway causing a car pile up, later he threatened to hurt his own mother because she wasn't his mother any more, and he attempted to kill his sister by throwing her onto shallow ice while ice skating.

Henry Evans is a Monstrous Monster and at the conclusion of the movie his mother has to decided on whether to save her nephew-in-law (Elijah Wood) or her son Henry.  I was on the edge of the bed waiting to see who she would save.

I recommend this movie to all those who haven't seen it yet.  It's old but worth the watch.