The Evil

The Evil is a 1978 horror film.

Professor C.J. Arnold and his wife Caroline has rented the old Vargas house for summer. As they start renovating the place with volunteers consisting of Arnold's students, they discover that the house is more than it seems.

Tropes used in The Evil include:

• Closed Circle: The house shuts itself after C.J. removes the cross in the basement.
• Creepy Basement
• Death by Mocking: Pete.
• Demonic Possession: Mary's dog Kaiser becomes possessed, and later kills her.
• Diary: Vargas's diary provide some answers regarding the house.
• Evil Laugh: Supernatural attacks are accompanied by evil laughter.
• Fainting: Caroline faints after she hears the evil laugh after Mary's death
• Forging Scene: After finding Vargas's diary, Caroline sees a vision of a cross being forged in the fireplace.
• Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Raymond gives a slap to Laurie when she becomes hyserical.
• Haunted House: Vargas's ghost is still around.
• Hell Gate: The house was built on one, which was then shut by Vargas.
• Hollywood Darkness
• Hope Spot: Raymond gets out of the house, only to sink into the ground.
• Hostile Weather: Storm breaks out before the cast ends locked up inside the house.
• Locked Into Strangeness: It is said tat Vargas's hair turned completely into white before he died.
• Man in White: Satan
• Man On Fire: Sam the caretaker ends up in flames when he goe to investigate srange noise in the basement.
• Peek-a-Boo Corpse: Sam's body gives a scare to Felecia and Mary.
• Super Window Jump: Raymond performs one when he sees a way out.
• Title Drop: "I sealed the pit, and you released the evil!"
• Token Minority: Felecia.