Henry Evans

**Henry Evans** is the main antagonist of the 1993 psychological thriller drama film *The Good Son*. He is the male version of Henrietta Evans, the main antagonist of the 1993 psychological thriller drama film *The Good Daughter*. He is the psychopathic killer cousin and archenemy of Mark Evans, the film's titular main protagonist and male version of Marcie Evans.

## Early Life

Henry is from Rock Harbor, Maine. He lived in Maine with his parents, Wallace and Susan Evans, his little sister Connie Evans, and his little brother Richard Evans before he died. Two years before the movie, Henry killed his little brother, Richard, by drowning him in the bathtub. Henry enjoyed killing animals with a homemade crossbow that shoots bolts and dropping human looking dummies onto the highway to cause car accidents. He had a murder shed he used as a secret personal secret serial killer hideout where he loved building deadly weapons he tested out and used to kill animals and life sized dummies he used when causing car accidents. Henry also enjoyed going ice skating or on hikes in the woods.

## The Good Son

After Mark’s mother died from a disease, Mark was sent to live with Henry and his family, consisting of Henry’s father Wallace, his mother Susan, and his little sister Connie. Henry revealed to Mark that his brother Richard had drowned in the bathtub. He and Mark were friends until Henry revealed increasingly psychopathic behavior, starting out when he smoked and pressured Mark into doing it, and then expressed interest in death, asking how Mark’s mother looked like when he died. Mark felt uncomfortable with Henry’s behavior and threatened to hit him if he talked about his mother again. Henry replied that if he did, he would throw Mark into a well.

Henry becomes jealous when he sees Susan hugging Mark. Henry later showed Mark a crossbow he made himself and showed off his skills with crossbow shooting to Mark, hitting a tree that a cat was sitting next to. A few days later, when Henry and Mark decided to go out crossbow shooting again, Henry shot and killed a dog that had chased the two earlier, much to Mark’s shock and horror. Mark tries to tell Wallace and Susan, but Henry scares him off by reminding him that he was with him when it happened and was a part of it. Henry confronts Mark in their room when Connie shows up as well. Henry is displeased that Connie is in his room and makes it clear about it but is pushed away by Mark, who pins him to a wall. Henry implies he is going to kill her just before Susan breaks the two up.

Susan and Wallace leaves and Mark becomes worried that Henry will attack Connie and finds her safe. After reading her a bedtime story to make her go to sleep, Mark leaves the room and Henry reveals himself in the dark, and once again hints he will kill Connie. The next morning, Mark wakes up and finds out Henry took Connie ice skating and leaves the house to find them. By the time he gets there, Henry has tossed Connie onto thin ice and she breaks through, almost freezing to death. Several adults rescue her but oddly don’t fall through themselves, and Connie is hospitalized. Mark tells Susan about what really happened on the ice but Susan refuses to believe him. Mark later confronts Henry on their treehouse, where Henry becomes even more jealous of Mark when he says that Susan is his mother now.

Susan finds the rubber duck that was with Richard when he died in Henry’s shed and asks him about it. Henry takes it away and throws it down a well. Later on, Henry and Mark meet up in their room and Henry hints he will kill Susan. Mark grabs a pair of scissors and pins Henry and threatens to jab the scissors into his throat. Henry pressures Mark into doing it when Wallace sees this and locks Mark in a room and says he needs to stay there until he wants to talk. Henry brings Susan into the forest where she asks if he did kill Richard. Afraid he will be sent away after revealing the truth, Henry runs away and Susan follows him. He tricks her into committing suicide and knocks her off a cliff, but she manages to hang on to the edge. Henry tries to throw a rock down on her, but Mark frees himself and fights Henry while Susan climbs up with cliff. As they wrestle around on the edge of the cliff, Henry overpowers Mark and starts strangling him and, using the last of his strength, Mark pushes Henry off him and they roll off the edge of a cliff. Susan holds onto both of them with each hand, but she can only save one. It’s a hard decision but she has to do something, so she lets Henry go and he falls to his death on the rocks below the cliffs. Susan pulls Mark up and they share an emotional embrace as waves wash Henry’s dead body into the sea.

## Personality

Henry was an extremely ruthless, dishonest, disrespectful, callous, dishonorable, rude, manipulative, sadistic, unsympathetic, selfish, and ungrateful child who never appreciated the well-being of others. He found the idea of death to be rather enthralling, with the exception of his own. Not only did Henry show no remorse for his actions, but he enjoyed them immensely; for example, after murdering an aggressive dog with his homemade crossbow, rather than feeling remorse or regret for what he had done, Henry instead felt only joy and satisfaction and had a broad, wicked smile on his face whilst watching the car accident he caused get bigger. Henry has been described as a Cluster B psychopath with antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline personality disorders with sadistic features. Thus, while psychopathic and twisted, he is capable of understanding why his actions are so terrible.

It seemed that envy was what awoke the beast in Henry as he drowned his baby brother, Richard, in the bathtub purely out of jealousy for how his parents were paying more attention to him, even giving him Henry's favorite rubber duck, which Henry kept after he killed him as it was in his words; "mine before it was his", after finding that killing Richard had been so easy for him, Henry discovered that he did not feel saddened when bad things happened to other people and then learned to live by a philosophy; "once you realize that you can do anything, you're free. You could fly. Nobody can touch you, nobody".

Henry took surprisingly little to no care of his own health, rationalizing that smoking was okay because everyone would die one way or another. Had he lived to be older, he possibly would have started using other drugs and alcohol. Henry stated that he used to be afraid before realizing that doing horrible things made him happy instead of sad or had no impact on him either way. Therefore, it is possible that he is willing to die in order to torment others as long as it's done by his own terms.

Henry's reason for attempting to kill his little sister and mother seemed to stem from a desire to devastate Mark more than from jealousy, as he noticed how close Mark was becoming to them both and had already demonstrated that other people's suffering thrilled him. Henry had already made it clear he disliked (and even hated) his sister, Connie but it was odd how he chose to kill his mother instead of Mark. He possibly preferred her to be dead than be a mother/mother-figure to anyone else or felt that she was too close to learning the truth about Richard's death.

Henry never felt any genuine love for anyone, even for his family, it was likely that he only wanted Richard out of the way so he would get all the attention and praise of his family and so that they would serve him. Henry was horrible to Connie; aside from trying to kill her, he would psychologically and physically torture her on many occasions and addressed her as "vermin" at one point.

Henry was also surprisingly calculating for his young age, he was able to make the murder of Richard and the attempted murder of Connie seem like an accident. He also stretched out his hand towards Connie to make it seem like he was trying to save her, though considering his sadistic personality, he may have also tantalized his sister by keeping his hand right out of her reach.

Had Henry gotten away with killing his mother, he could have lied about it, having been there when it happened and it would have been surmised that she had either fallen or committed suicide due to her heartbreak over Richard's death, the latter of which is something everyone knew she felt guilty for. Henry also convinced everyone that Mark's grievance over his mother was driving him to insanity, keeping all suspicion off himself, and was even willing to blame him for the traffic collision he caused.

At first, Henry's psychopathic nature had simply been due to jealousy, but since then it had developed to the point that another person's life having value was a fact that Henry simply ignored. The shine he took to Mark at first was possible because he saw Mark as a potential pawn rather than a friend, as he viewed everyone he knew as disposable if they no longer satisfied his needs or posed a threat to his freedom (which was what he valued above everything else).

What was really disturbing about Henry was that he understood the difference between right and wrong, and knew perfectly well that what he was doing was bad but he did not care. If he wanted to do something and if it was within his reach to do it, he would - without caring at all about how it affected other people or, as mentioned above, if he endangered his life in the process.

Despite Henry's interest in death and enjoyment for causing it to others, he valued his own life and was afraid of dying himself; as far as Henry was concerned, it was OK for everyone except himself to die or be in pain (or at least, refusing to let others kill him unless he wants to), he briefly tried to convince Mark to follow in his footsteps and give up all traces of empathy so his life would be better, possibly implying that Henry thought everyone should be like him. Henry also had a ridiculously excessive sense of self-worth, as he felt that he was entitled to everything he wanted just because he wanted it, with no rational reasoning.

Henry's greatest weakness was his incapability to understand love completely, this was evident by when he still thought that his mother would always love him unconditionally, even after he had subtly admitted to killing Richard to his mother and then tried to kill her despite her trying to reach him upon finding out his true nature. Henry also asked Mark if a person is expected to cry at their mother's funeral, apparently only guessing that it is something most people would do.

## Appearance

Henry Evans is a slender young boy with blonde hair, blue eyes and pale skin. Henry wears a lot of red and black winter clothes. He also loves to wear plaid as he is seen wearing a lot of red and black or black and white plaid in the movie. Henry also wore one black Nike and one white Nike shoe on each foot.