Stay soft.

Cimitero di Lucca, Italia

I wish we had spent more time exploring the implied abuse or at least anger issues and favouritism that Edgar and Susan had on their family. Both of them are rude and abrasive to Alice. Edgar snaps at both Polly and Joe. They heap praises onto Will whilst cutting Joe aside. Polly is restrained in unfair positions.

A lot of Edgar's pre-deadite warning signs of increased aggression go unnoticed bc this behaviour (if not abuse, then aggression) is clearly normal. Alice points out that Susan knew that Will was abusive.

Susan enables her family's behaviour, right up until the end. She would kiss the corpse of her husband moments after he violently attacks their son because he promised that they were only hurting him because he needed something, and if Joe would just behave and give it to them then he would stop. And so she enables him, and she lets him in again, and she gets him killed.

Joe - presented as a least favourite child, and afraid of his brother and father's outbursts - is also an enabler. He didn't protect Alice from Will, and he left Thya when she needed him the most because that fear of his father enabled the cycle of abuse. Thya literally points out that he had an easier time fighting back against his wife than he did his father.

That is to say that Alice is paying the price for a cycle of aggression (from half the family) and enabling (from the other half).

EVIL DEAD BURN (2026) dir. Sébastien Vaniček