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| “ | Don't look at the acts, look at the works. | „ |
| ~ Jack's view of his murders as art. |
Jack is the titular villain protagonist of the 2018 psychological horror/thriller film The House That Jack Built. A failed architect and psychopathic misanthrope, he commits a series of murders over a 12-year period from the late 1970s-80s, discussing them with the Roman poet Virgil (whom he refers to as Verge) as the latter takes him through Hell.
He was portrayed by Matt Dillon.
What Makes Him Pure Evil[]
- He displays psychopathic tendencies which render him unable to feel empathy or remorse.
- As a child, he picked up a baby duckling from a pond and cut its foot off before placing it back in the water, leaving it to drown.
- He picked up a female hitchhiker who asked for help to fix her broken jack to in-turn fix a flat tire. She constantly humored the idea that Jack could be a serial killer. After the jack is fixed and broke once more, the woman asked Jack to take her back to the blacksmith and mocked him once more, evoking a violent response from Jack, causing him to bludgeon her to death in the face with the car jack. He later stored her body in his freezer.
- He manipulated a widowed woman named Claire into letting him into her house, saying he's from an insurance agency and can increase her pension. Once inside, he botched an attempt to strangle her to death, instead opting to stab her in the chest. After a while of obsessive cleaning of the house and a conversation with a cop, he tied Claire's body to the back of his van and drove away to store it in his freezer.
- He killed many other victims offscreen, but two shown onscreen are him strangling a woman to death, now more experienced in the act, and running over another woman with his van.
- It's at this point that Jack begins setting up his victims in various poses and taking pictures, sending some to the media and taking on the alias "Mr. Sophistication".
- He began dating a single mother of two: Grumpy and George, before taking them all on a hunting trip and explaing that when killing deer, the young should be picked off first. The correlation is seen immediately as Jack killed the two children with a sniper rifle and forced the broken mother to take part in a picnic with their corpses. Afterwards, Jack killed the woman as well, and arranged their bodies in a trophy collection.
- He later contorted Grumpy's face into a disturbing grin with wires, using rigor mortis to his advantage.
- He confessed to his girlfriend (whom he believes is stupid, referring to her as "Simple") that he's murdered 60 people. He then drawed dotted circles around her breasts, prompting her to leave and attempt to tell a cop of Jack's crimes, though he thinks she's just drunk. Once back inside and slightly reassured about Jack, she noticed he's cut the phone line, and she realized he will try to kill her. She attempted to escape but was bound and gagged by Jack, who cut her breasts off, no doubt killing her. He pinned one to the cop's car and fashioned the other into a wallet.
- He kidnapped five people and attempted to kill them all with one bullet. However, one of the men told him he has the wrong bullet. He left to fetch a full metal jacket, becoming enraged with the man behind the counter at the store who's hesitant to give him the bullet. After Jack left, the man callled the police. He went to a friend of his' house for the bullet, who held him at gunpoint and waited for the cops. Jack manipulated him into lowering his guard and proceeded to stab him upside the throat and takes the FMJ bullet. When a cop burst inside, he shot him dead and stole his car, returning to his freezer to finish off the five people. He had to open a sealed door to be able to see through the sniper sights properly, however, and inside sees a man (who has been conversating with Jack as a co-narrator throughout the film), who convinced Jack to finish the house he never got to build, so he built one with the corpses of all the victims in the freezer. Jack followed the man through a in the floor of the "house", leading him to a Dante's Inferno-style Hell.
- In the end, Jack feels absolutely no remorse for his crimes and even attempts to defend them by claiming they were art, and that he's a masterful artist. Although his failure in his career as an architect happened because his mother forced down a traditional career path as an engineer, he has gone far past it and in the end, Jack is forever condemned to the deepest and most torturous depths of Hell.
- Virgil himself says Jack is one of the most twisted souls he's ever had the pleasure (or displeasure, rather) of speaking to, even having called him the Antichrist.
Trivia[]
- Jack was inspired in part by the late serial killer Ted Bundy.
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External Links[]
- Jack on the Villains Wiki
- Jack on the Hate Sink Wiki