Review | Evil Twin – Terror with Teresa Palmer hits with Surprising Ending

Anyone who loves the horror genre always feels like they’ve seen it all. It’s a tough audience to please, as the characters and story can’t be too far-fetched or you run the risk of having your suspension of disbelief challenged by the viewer. And it looks like Hollywood has been trying, and hard, to bring some freshness to this area. So, to the delight of horror movie fans, distributors have turned to productions from other countries, feature films capable of entertaining their demanding audiences while the damned blockbuster franchises bring nothing new. . So, among the good news hitting the circuit this weekend, the Finnish feature “Evil Twin” will premiere in cinemas across the country.

In the plot, we know the story of a family dishonored by a terrible tragedy in the recent past: Rachel (Teresa Palmer, of ‘I Am Number Four’) and Anthony (Steven Cree) lost one of their children, Nathan, in a horrible car accident. In an attempt to move on and get their lives back together, the two decide to sell their house in New York and move back to live in Anthony’s family home in Finland. At first, the two think the new tune will be good for their surviving son, Elliott (Tristan Ruggeri), but gradually Rachel begins to notice unusual behavior in the boy, connecting him to his deceased twin brother.

In just under an hour and fifty, the viewer will be able to follow the evolution of the story of ‘Evil Twin’ without too much elaboration, in a linear and continuous crescent, reaching its climax in the last third of the feature film. , which is, in fact, the best part. This is one of the however where the trait of Taneli Mustonen ends up slipping in: the rhythm, which imposes itself very slowly at the beginning and accelerates at the end, upsetting the balance, crashing on itself- even at the end. A strategy that could avoid this feeling in the audience would be the best development of key plot scenes, which do not go into depth and whose editing is holey, eager for the viewer to come to terms with the situation that has arisen without necessarily immerse yourself in it, cut it off at the height of the event.

On the other hand, we have good performances from both the main cast and the secondary cast, with actors whose facial expressions cause fascination and confusion in those who watch. The highlight is the young Tristan Ruggeri, whose enigmatic face allows the impact of the story to extend beyond the script of Aleksi Hyvärinen and Taneli Mustonen. A player to watch for future projects.

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Oddly enough, ‘Evil Twin’ isn’t exactly jump scared, but it does deliver an honest little horror that overlaps with the Nordic vibe of ‘Midsommar’ and the like. The horror scenes are few, reduced almost entirely to the final third, but the story construction is compelling, making the film one of the genre’s best releases this year so far.

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