A ★ review of History of Evil (2023)

History of Evil is basically "What if The Shining was anti-fascist but also awful?" This rote, painfully dull horror flick is set in a world where right-wing fascism has taken over America, and a fairly generic resistance leader (a perfectly adequate Jackie Cruz) escapes from unjust imprisonment only to find herself in a racist and misogynist haunted house with her daughter, her husband (Paul Wesley, painfully miscast) and a guide (Rhonda Johnson Dents, also solid) en route to a safe zone. There’s actually some real potential for this kind of a movie, but it doesn’t go anywhere. It’s constrained by