Another day, another straight-to-DVD horror flick which mines THE EVIL DEAD for its inspiration. This low budget Canadian film is about the usual group of vacationing teenagers who head off to the stereotypical cabin in the woods and thereafter turn on each other due to the influence of a wonder drug.

There's really no interest in this old story, which has been done so many times that it has no impact anymore. THE EVIL IN US simply wallows in gore for gore's sake and although the special effects are impressive, you simply don't care about what you see taking place as the script is poor and the characters are all completely unlikeable.

The running time clearly came up short because half of the film takes place in an ice-cold clinic where it turns out that the drugging of the teenagers was intentional. These scenes are slow and boring too and the viewer ends up just waiting for the bloodshed to kick in. I find that these low budget gore films are ten a penny these days whereas films with real wit and intelligence are few and far between.

First off, the Amazon description of the film is a major league plot spoiler giving out information not revealed until an hour into the feature and at the end. IMDb is slightly better, but still has that hour point spoiler. I was fortunate to watch the film cold.

The film has three subplots. In the first one there was a bloody killing in a Seattle apartment. The lone survivor is at a hospital and is in shock. We await her story. Then we have a group of young adults going out to Crystal Cove to party over the 4th of July and everyone hopes to score. The group contains a bunch of suspects (one in particular) for the apartment killing as well as the proverbial local creepy guide. After we get these two tales going we are suddenly introduced to some kind of military experiment with people being observed in a cell. It takes 50 minutes before we have our next causality and for the subplots to come together. Things are not made totally clear until the end credits, which would have made the film more interesting had this aspect of "Wolf News" been seen earlier with a similar incident...or course that would have been a 4th subplot.

This was a cabin in the woods type slasher with a twist.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Okay, SPOILER ALERT! DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED!

It's a decent looking "zombie" movie with all the blood, gore and mayhem you're looking for with this type of film, and the actors are even decent. But that's where the "okay" ends and the stupid to horrible begins.

We have the typical young party going 'twenty somethings' getting together on July 4th to celebrate on an island near Seattle apparently, and once there, communication with the outside world is only possible via a CB Radio! (gee, imagine that). And, the only way to get off the island is the same way one gets to it, via a boat, and it's driven by none other than some "creepy middle-aged guy with a beard." So yeah, typical horror movie tropes included.

The long story short (because nothing else really matters),there are meanwhile, some twisted folks conducting illegal experiments in nearby Seattle by yet another "creepy middle-aged guy" with NO beard, along with his wife and their "millennial" boy admirer (it becomes more clear later 'why' this matters).

Anyway, they (no beard creep, et al) are lacing cocaine with some sort of virus that turns people into raging zombies who then eat people, alive, who may or may not be a zombie too, until the 'cocaine' wears off. And, of course, a party goer has some of this 'bad coke' with him.

Basically, this movie is an anti drug campaign at this point, which in and of itself isn't necessarily a bad thing, until the script writer gets us to the dreadful 'ends horribly' part. Because, guess what, we learn that all along, the 'creepy middle-aged guy with no beard', along with his wife and the kid who idolizes him, is apparently a ranking member of the GOP! THE POLITICAL Grand Old Party! He's 'doctor evil' along with his enabling and equally evil wife and their millennial zealot boy wonder are lacing Cocaine to zombify kids! Why you ask? It doesn't matter! Just REASONS and the GOP, ya know?? And all this while he's running for president!

Yep, can't make this stuff up folks! So this entire 'movie' is an anti-drug, anti-Republican activist ad! Gee, how original (sarcasm). I mean, it's not like people these days don't get enough political insanity in their real lives, right (especially in Seattle)? Nope, we need flipping HORROR movies to be political activism too! I suppose the location, "Seattle, Washington" was supposed to clue the rest of us in?? Who knows what the mental midget who wrote this was thinking, but this really dumbed down the movie immensely. It dupes even non political people into a, "Naner naner naner!" (tongue out, ears twinked) gotcha! moment" for an ending; it's that petty and childish. I watch movies for entertainment, not for one-sided childish political rants on steroids.

So if you think likewise, do yourself a favor and use your time for something better; like doing the laundry, or pulling your own nails out with pliers (more sarcasm). Otherwise, you too will lose around an hour and a half of your life forever!

TIME WASTED!