Evil is adapted from a best selling novel and directed by
Mikael Håfström (Derailed and 1408). This 2003 Swedish language film
follows a teenager, Erik, played by Andreas Wilson. The film opens with a
very violent scene of Erik beating a fellow student to a bloody pulp.
The camera focuses tight on his face, this is clearly the face of evil. Erik is subsequently expelled from school and his mother despairs at
the path her son is on and so sells some of her possessions in order to
send Erik to the prestigious Stjärsnberg Academy. There, she hopes, he
will get a chance to continue his schooling.
