Ancient Latin writing and strange symbols, questions of faith, a chilling and inventive use of music by the Doors and, most frightening, a veteran (Sean Harris) of the Iraq war who's morphed into an inhuman portal for said primary evil, all factor in. Sarchie's pregnant wife (Olivia Munn) and 6-year-old daughter (Lulu Wilson) also become enmeshed in the horror.
At times, it feels somewhat loose and overly sensitive, but again, its a necessary evil given the form factor.
The thing is, in the Norse sagas, good and evil are not the factors -- it's the characters of the gods that matter much more than in a Christian or Jewish or Islamic story of the same kind -- there'd be the 'bad guys' and the 'good guys': but that's not how it works in the Nordic world.
Interview with father of Kwasi, shrine, 18th June 2008 Spiritual perspectives on mental illness reinforce the popularity of the shrines and churches, since, unlike the hospitals, they address factors such as evil spirits, sorcery and witchcraft, which are commonly seen to have caused mental illness.
Culturally prevalent ideas like black magic, evil eye, etc., as a causative factor, might be the reason for initial help seeking with faith healers.
Risk-factor approaches such as EVIL DONE (for identifying targets at risk of terrorist attack – Clarke and Newman [2006]) were useful elsewhere in the toolkit (under 'think opportunity').
Until surprisingly recently, the suffering of non-human animals was not a major factor in the problem of evil.
He has spoken in the past, as Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy did recently, of "evil," not mental illness, being the overriding factor in most of these rampages.
