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| “ | Dude, I am the Harry Houdini of getting away with it. I know how tonight plays out, and we get out clean. You just gotta do what I say. Okay? | „ |
| ~ Luke to Garrett. |
Lucas "Luke" Lerner is the main antagonist of the 2017 horror-comedy film Better Watch Out.
He was portrayed by Levi Miller in his first villainous role.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Fitting with the darkly comedic nature of the film, his laughably evil traits do not detract from his villainy at all, and he becomes increasingly serious as the movie progresses, notably with killing Garrett and subverting all of his redeeming qualities.
- He killed Garrett's hamster just for fun.
- Staged a home invasion with Garrett’s help only so he could try and look impressive in front of Ashley.
- Though he has a crush on Ashley, it is out of lust and not real love at all.
- He knocked out, tied up, and gagged Ashley, so that he could sexually abuse her, which he did by touching her breast.
- When Ashley understandably refused his advances, he produced a bottle of roofies with the intention of rendering her unconscious as to be able to spin a narrative to whitewash away what had happened.
- That said, he almost certainly intended to sexually assault her whilst she was unconscious, as he was desperate to have sex and enjoyed groping her without her consent and called the bottle his "insurance policy".
- Lured Ashley’s boyfriend, Ricky, to the house and then hit him with a baseball bat and stabbed him with a pencil in the face, later making him smoke and having it come out of his cheek to torture him more.
- He killed Ricky with a paint can, right in front of a horrified Ashley and Garrett and then laughed it off.
- He then killed Ashley's ex-boyfriend, Jeremy, by hanging him from a tree.
- He shot his best friend, Garrett, for trying to set Ashley free, and then finished him off shortly after.
- While he does show an intense amount of remorse after killing Garrett, he drops all of it a few seconds after and says that Garrett was starting to annoy him anyway, pointedly subverting both care and remorse, as well as any redeeming qualities.
- He stabbed Ashley in the neck with a knife in an attempt to kill her when he realized she wouldn't be with him.
- He staged all of his murders to make it look like it was all done by Jeremy.
- Despite being a child, he shows a clear moral agency as he was able to get rid of evidence and trick his parents into thinking he was innocent in his crimes.
- In the ending he asked his parents to visit Ashley at the hospital, not because he cared about her, but due to the fact that he wanted to finish the job in order to silence her.
Trivia[]
- Some believe that Luke's remorse for killing Garrett could have been real and he was just attempting to rationalize the situation to try and cope with his grief. However, the film never confirms if Luke's remorse was still within him, or if he really had gotten over Garrett's death.
- How quickly he recomposes himself lends doubt to the validity of this, though.
External Links[]
- Luke Lerner on the Villains Wiki