Kevin is a Monster kept in the Facility. He was listed on the whiteboard but was not bet on. It is unknown if he appeared during the System Purge or not, since his appearance is unknown.
Physical Description and Attributes[]
Assuming that he has no strange or supernatural characteristics, Kevin is a normal-looking adult male. Because of his ordinary appearance, Kevin may be able to blend in with humans or display a non-threatening demeanor. This could be extremely dangerous as he could use this deception to lure away and convince his victims he is not a threat, only to kill them later. Kevin could be an average serial killer, but that wouldn't be enough reasoning for the Facility to capture him, so it's possible he could be suffering from a severe mental illness that makes him extremely uncontrollable and dangerous. Other theories about Kevin could be that he does in fact have supernatural abilities but does not use them unless he is summoned to the Cabin. Kevin seems to be the most mysterious out of all the Monsters in the Facility, both in the novel and the film.
Fans speculate that film tape is what summons Kevin to the Cabin. If so, Marty would have almost summoned him Kevin since he tampers with some while in the cabin's cellar.
Appearances[]
Kevin was not seen or depicted in the film. However, judging by the way Dana describes Kevin in the novel, he could have very well been any ordinary looking person running amok during the purge.
In the novelization, Kevin is described as a quiet, normal-looking person with a small smile on his face who calmly walks through the post-Purge chaos until he comes across an injured guard. He then proceeds to "exsanguinate him in a second." When Dana finds the guard, he appears "untarnished, but Dana had never seen 'anyone more dead.'"
Inspiration[]
The fact that Kevin is identified only by first name and never seen or referred to otherwise, may indicate that he is a trope based upon the concept of a person with an overall normal appearance and nonthreatening demeanor, but is nonetheless extremely dangerous. Its also very possible that Kevin may be a Monster based on the real-life horror of serial killers, and how they appear as normal people and may seem unthreatening at first.
The film director's comments explicitly mention that he is most likely the character "Kevin" from the novel and film We Need to Talk About Kevin, a child that displays sadistic violent tendencies.
Other references include:
- Sin City's Kevin, who fits the same description.
- A popular Canadian cartoon called Kevin Spencer also exists. The show takes place around Kevin and his alcoholic, sociopathic antics.
- Since the object believed to summon Kevin are videotape film, he may be a reference to the character Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. Bateman uses the excuse, "I have to return some videotapes", to leave a social situation to go on another murder spree.
- Norman Bates from Psycho.
- Anthony Fremont from the Twilight Zone series.