Hex

by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

One evil spawned another, greater evil, and ultimately everything could be traced back to Black Spring. Black Spring had brought this upon itself.

I love the almost Biblical connotation of that last sentence, mirroring the original sin. Of course Katherine wasn’t evil. What she became existed only because of what the people of Black Spring had done to her. We know she had certain powers during her lifetime, true, but I believe she never intended for anything bad to happen. She was a misunderstood mother, who wanted only what was best for her children. The ending of HEX is about plain human evil, not supernatural evil. I love the scene when the town has turned into a mad mob on the square, dragging innocents into the burning church, and Katherine is witnessing this from atop the hill... crying. She never wanted this.