From a House on Willow Street

Hazel is the gang’s leader and the main human fighter. Katherine is the central possessed figure who overpowers several men. The two most important power roles therefore go to women. The film does not market this as diversity or empowerment, so the signal remains limited.

Hazel leads the gang, gives orders, and handles the plan as the most capable human in the group. Katherine becomes the main physical threat after the demon takes control of her body and kills several male criminals. Hazel survives the final fight and destroys Katherine. This creates a repeated female-dominance pattern, but the film uses it for horror and revenge rather than a modern lesson about gender.

The available record for Alastair Orr centers on independent horror and film craft. It shows no clear DEI or activist pattern. The other writers and producers have little or mild public identity context. Casting director Emily Schweber has some work with stories about marginalized people, but this title is not publicly framed around that work.