Necessary Evil Movie
Storyline
TAGLINES PLOT SUMMARY
Deborah Fielding, seeker of the truth, will stop at nothing to uncover the layers of corruption that lie deep within the walls of Edgewater Psychiatric Institute, even if the cost is her life. In a series of twisted events, this budding investigative journalist unlocks a Pandoras
box of deceit. As she confronts uncertainties, authorities and demons from her past, she realizes they have been dwelling closer than she thought. What she finds is that her seemingly perfect life is nothing more than a perfect lie.
| Donald Agnelli | Albert Fielding |
| Greg Collins | Michael Russo |
| Drue Delio | Mental patient |
| James DuMont | Officer #1 |
| Mark Casimir Dyniewicz | Interrogator #2 |
| Evan Elliot | Ronald Benjamin |
| Eric Feldman | Russo |
| Aaron Fors | Stephen Green |
| Samson Ghaffary | Sgt. Greco |
| Joe Guth | Mental Patient |
| Lance Henriksen | Dr. Fibrian |
| Gary Hudson | Sanders |
| Justin Kelly | Undercover Detective |
| Allan Kolman | Dr. Logan |
| Mike Kurzhal | Soldier |
| Peter J. Eaton |
3.50 out of 10 (82 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Surprising, .. surprisingly weird as well
posted on 13 Jun 2009After a good kick off the movie is surprising and takes weird turns and I liked that.The sound editors could have done a better job and the empty spaces in sound made me wonder sometimes. I noticed that necessary evil is also a game book but its hard to tell if this movie is related to that. That this movie did not get that much attention must have been because its weirdness but then again, Danny Trejo does what he does best and some other well known actors showed their typical faces.Therefore I think that this movie deserves more attention. Everyone who likes a psychedelic weird surprise will probably enjoy this movie. And that this partly less experienced actors and writers/directors could have pulled this off is worth a Praise.Still not great but worth watching.6 of 10
Trite, clichéd, badly written, poorly executed.
posted on 18 May 2009I can only assume the two positive reviews were written by someone
involved in the production of this turkey.
Here's the plot. We start with a group of mercenaries in "Babylon" 16
years ago, sent to find an unknown artifact, and for some reason, they
have a belly dancer with them. I can't think of any explanation for the
Belly Dancer other than that's what the producer thinks lives in the
Middle East. Well, the monster gets loose, and infects the lead
mercenary, imbuing him with the Force. Or something.
We then have Lance Henricksen, consigned to Direct to DVD Perdition for
sins against good project selection, as a mad scientist who runs an
insane asylum where they test drugs on the patients, and they are
working on a new drug called "Reficul", which is "Lucifer" spelled
backwards. Sign of a bad writer... this is their idea of "clever".
We get introduced to some more characters, seemingly unrelated to each
other, including a hard-drinking cop and a paranoid journalism student
who is pregnant. The only truly evil thing that follows is the simply
horrible dialog written for the characters.
Basically, you couldn't figure out the plot with a Ouija board and a
magic 8-Ball, but I halfway expect that's how they wrote it.
Memo to Mr. Henricksen. You used to be a good actor. Now your name on a
DVD box is becoming like a skull and crossbones on a bottle.
Uninteresting plot, characters, and execution. Even Scientologists would find this hard to swallow... and they believe in a guy named Xenu.
posted on 12 May 2009I pride myself on being able to watch terrible movies and still finding them enjoyable. Unfortunately, Necessary Evil defeated any chances of viewing pleasure. Generally, I feel some connection to at least one of the characters in the film. This is one movie that I can say that I couldn't find any connection and instead just had spite. Was it wrong for me to wish that the "heroes" of the film would die? Probably, but they were just that uninteresting that I couldn't care less about what happened to them.The writing would have made a better novel than a movie. I understand the film had multiple plot points, but conveying them with a narration was perhaps the wrong tool to move along the story. I think they chose narration because it slowed the movie down so they could a hit an hour and a half of viewing displeasure. To make matters worse the movie was already plodding along at such a slow pace that drawing it out was a completely unbearable addition.It's sad to think the most interesting part of the movie was watching the seconds tick by when I'd hit the display button on the DVD player. As far as thrillers go "Necessary Evil" was about as thrilling as cottage cheese.
review from Horrornews.net
posted on 25 Jun 2009Necessary Evil (2008)REVIEW: HorrorNews.net by Joanna RoseThe FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has utmost responsibility of deciding whether medication is safe and legal to distribute to the American public. Always under high scrutiny of public protest due to what some think is unethical treatment of research subjects, one may wonder how the FDA can get away with so much without trouble with the law. Peter J. Eaton's Necessary Evil answers the question by mixing the power of money and supernatural powers to aide an unethical research facility in risky dealings that eventually gets defeated by curious bystanders of seemingly unbreakable power. Sixteen years prior to the movie, a scene of a group of scientists is shown in a cavern discovering an ancient hieroglyphics system of writing. Their presence provokes the spirit that inhabits the cavern, and the head of the scientists immediately captures the demon-like spirit monster being. The scientist that is home to part the demon spirit, Frank Sanders (Gary Hudson), decides to take the monster back to Edgewater Psychiatric Institute. Sanders, powered by the demonic monster, holds unlimited power to get away with anything, which will aide his company versus the FDA.Deborah Fielding (Kathryn Fiore), a young college student, is shown sixteen later to Sanders's finding in a doctor's office getting a checkup. Immediately, we are made known that Deborah is pregnant, and Dr. Logan prescribes her Reficul. Reficul is a new drug just being approved by the FDA as a pill taken over time to replace an epidural during childbirth, and Deborah is immediately bothered by the distribution of an experimental drug. Deborah is shown questioning her college professor to do investigative reporting at Phoenix Pharmaceuticals, and depicted as the stereotypical young woman prying into business that should only be handled by the higher ups with money. Deborah also researches into Reficul, which is later a key to the puzzle of the sabotage of Phoenix Pharmaceutical. We are also introduced to a birthday party of an innocent family. The Green's are just finishing cake when their door is blasted open by men dressed in black. The mother, Helen Green (Tarri Markell), is immediately forced against the wall by the eldest man and interrogated by the rest of the men from the intruding Phoenix Pharmaceutical Group. They then kidnap the son, Stephen (Aaron Fors), and the family is admitted to the hospital. Detective Russo (Eric Feldman) is then introduced and investigates the scene, able to decipher the ancient writing in blood that says "Know your place." We see then and there that powers beyond a regular human are indicted upon anyone who tries to get in the path of the great pharmaceutical company; even on this seemingly innocent family. Deborah eventually gets clearance into Edgewater, and through twists and interrogation, she finds that she was drawn to this lifetime enemy in more ways than just hate. Russo eventually pieces together clues to find Deborah to form a coalition in contributing to the downfall of the powerful corporation.Necessary Evil had an interesting storyline, which kept my attention throughout the movie. There are so many questionable ties between the government and powerful organizations, which it is easy to get caught in the middle and want to know how some of these unethical organizations get the money for what they do. Even though some of the special f/x were kind of cheaply done and quickly CGI infused, especially the supernatural monster shown at the end of the movie, they did what they were supposed to portraying an evil spirit inhabiting humans. Also, the glowing green eyes of the inhabitant of the demonic spirits are completely unrealistic in viewing. There is also not much blood and gore, which was only shown when the monster is being fed parts of a mutilated body. There was also a random fight scene between Russo and Barro (Danny Trejo), which partly didn't make sense to the storyline of the movie. The actors, however, did an excellent job