by Hal Erickson
synopsis
A young Steven Spielberg helmed the made-for-TV Something Evil. Johnny Whitaker (Family Affair) is cast as Stevie Worden, an angelic child whose parents move into a foreboding Pennsylvania mansion. It isn't long before Stevie is possessed with the house's resident demonic spirit. In anticipation of The Exorcist and The Omen, the spirit within Stevie never lets anyone know when it's going to strike -- but everyone knows full well when it does. Spielberg evokes horror throughout by contrasting the most terrifying events with the plodding commonplace of day-to-day life. Something Evil was Spielberg's last TV-movie assignment.
characteristics
- Family
- Daughter
- Malevolence
- Spellbinders
- Menace
- Moving
- Child
- Good-vs-evil
- Demonic Possession
- Evil
- Parent
- Wickedness
- Home
- Haunted-house
- House
