Henri Desjardins

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Pure Evil
Full Name	Henri Desjardins
Alias	The Local Boogeyman
Origin	The Taking of Deborah Logan
Allies	None
Powers / Skills	Possession Teleportation Snake manipulation Acid spit A snake-like mouth Telekinesis Abnormal strength Intellect Manipulation
Goals	Become immortal through a Monacan blood ritual (possibly succeeded).
Moral Event Horizon	Murdering four young girls in a ritual so that he can become immortal. Possessing Deborah Logan and kidnapping Cara, a young cancer patient, before attempting to eat her alive.
Kill Count	Five Multiple (attempted)
Worst Crimes	Serial child murder Cannibalism Mutilation Kidnapping Possession
Type of Villain	Immortality-Seeking Serial-Killer

“	The eternal serpent will free you child. Be my fifth. Be my fifth. I will wash you in the river. Your blood will feed the river.	„
	~ Henri possessing Deborah and making her speak in French.

Henri Desjardins is the main antagonist of the live-action horror film The Taking of Deborah Logan. He is a former pediatrician from Quebec whose goal was to become immortal through a Monacan blood ritual.

He was portrayed by Kevin A. Campbell.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?

• He was a pediatrician and boy-scout troop leader who learned he was dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, which led him to abduct four young girls and brutally murder them in a Monacan blood ritual so that he could achieve immortality. In this rituals, he carved serpentine carvings into their foreheads, cannibalized parts of their bodies, and left traces of rattlesnake venom behind. His illness does not make him tragic as he willingly chose to murder children so that he could selfishly achieve immortality.
• He attempted to murder Sarah, a young girl who was the daughter of Deborah Logan. After Deborah killed him to save Sarah and buried his body with Harris, he possessed Deborah.
• When Deborah was suffering from Alzheimer's in her old age, he targeted her, making her become violent and caused her to self-harm and attack those around her.
• While possessing Deborah's body, he kidnapped Cara Minetti, a young girl with leukemia and bit a security guard in the neck who tried to stop him, injecting him with snake venom in the process.
• When the police went after him, he attacked them and spit venom into the face of one officer.
• He brought Cara to an underground mine so that he could sacrifice her and murders Sheriff Linda Tweed.
• He viciously attacks Sarah when she tries to stop him.
• He attempts to eat Cara alive and comes close to doing so.
• When Deborah is freed from his control, she is blamed for his actions and her health rapidly declines.
• In the end he was heavily implied to possessed Cara after leaving Deborah's body, making him successful.

External Links

• Henri Desjardins on the Villains Wiki