The 2007 film (also known as Jack Ketchum's Evil ) is a psychological horror-thriller that dramatizes the escalating abuse and eventual murder of a teenage girl in 1950s suburban America. Directed by Gregory Wilson , the film is a stark adaptation of Jack Ketchum’s 1989 novel of the same name, which itself was inspired by the notorious real-life 1965 murder of Sylvia Likens . Plot Summary
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