The Origin of Evil

The Origin of Evil is ultimately Calamy’s show as a calculating and desperate woman seeking love and acceptance in all the wrong places.

The second-hour intrigue is sharp enough to hold your interest and the final bit of untwisting registers as near-perfect.

In The Origin of Evil,” a gnarly, knotty thriller co-written (with Fanny Burdino) and directed by Sébastien Marnier, Calamy gives a dramatic performance of unsettling depth.

This is a sumptuous treat of a twisted and twisty queer thriller.


This decadent murder-movie takes the online credo, “be gay, do crimes,” and runs with it — to delicious results.

The Origin of Evil recalls Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness for how its prolonged, soft-peddled skewering of the wealthy seems convinced of its Buñuelian irreverence.

Calamy’s charisma and understated turn really pay dividends – keeping you fully engaged and engrossed, as you try to work out the truth of what’s really going on, before the final revelations are made.

Origin of Evil, director Sebastien Marnier's twisted thriller, held me in its grip until the very end.

Sébastien Marnier’s widescreen dark thriller.. is a virtuously acidic sup at the spoiled well of Patrica Highsmith-style trouble... its slow-burn disdain for the upper class is well-aimed.

A juicy, drama-infused tale of deception with multiple layers of intrigue that are sure to keep audiences riveted to the screen. However, outside of its suspenseful plot, The Origin of Evil doesn’t really offer anything new to the genre.