"Inspired by true events" and set in the seventies, John (Andrew Harwood Mills) and Kate (Lucy Drive) move into a large house in the countryside where she can paint, he can take photographs, and they can raise a family. It is not long before he is having nightmares (waking with a spreading rash on his neck) and she is having hallucinations of a dark figure that finds its way into her art. As John grows distant, having started work on a secret project, Kate learns from the parish priest (David White) that the previous family to own the house died violently, Kate's disapproving sister (Désirée Giorgetti) vanishes (as does the dog), and John becomes violent when she suggests leaving the house. A producer credit for Uwe Boll (HOUSE OF THE DEAD) is almost never a good sign, and the Italian production HOUSE OF EVIL turns out to be a paint-by-numbers rendition of every haunted house movie post-INSIDIOUS/THE CONJURING before falling back on a favorite "twist" of the Italians since Roman Polanski tried his hand at overt horror. The location is atmospheric but one is never sure where it is meant to be set. Some references say New Orleans - although that may be due to the folksly rendition of "House of the Rising Sun" during the credits - the couple is American (gratingly so, with Mills' stilted American accent battling for attention with his seventies sideburns), the sister-in-law is Italian, the priest is English, and the barely-glimpsed demon looks like a mutant bunny rabbit. The result is a waste of atmospheric locations that might have been used for a better script.