Summary
The movie was made to capitalize on the success of the novel The Exorcist, which had yet to be released as a movie. Despite its common storyline, Bill Butler's unusual camera angles and Allan Jacobs' quick cuts give Something Evil its distinctive and disturbing results. By never fully showing the "monster," a technique editor Verna Fields would employ to good effect in Spielberg's Jaws (and previously used by Spielberg in 1971's Duel and Ernest Walter in 1963's The Haunting), Jacobs' editing transformed what would otherwise have been an average made-for-TV movie script into a successfully chilling film.
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