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In Theaters Now
- 2023
- IFC Films
- 1 h 39 m
- 2023
- IFC Films
- 1 h 39 m
Summary In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to give birth to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the man but merely succeed in helping him to deliver the inferno.
Directed By: Demián Rugna
Written By: Demián Rugna
In Theaters Now
- 2023
- IFC Films
- 1 h 39 m
- 2023
- IFC Films
- 1 h 39 m
When Evil Lurks
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Summary In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to give birth to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the man but merely succeed in helping him to deliver the inferno.
Directed By: Demián Rugna
Written By: Demián Rugna
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
69
86% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
14% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Delivering scares at a pace that rarely allows one to catch their breath, and with enough gruesome surprises to consistently startle.
This is a movie that is both familiar and fresh. Scary, yes, but mostly disturbing, gory, smart, quite expansive, and all around created in the bowels of hell itself.
Demián Rugna's debut feature, Terrified contains one of the most eerily disturbing scenes in recent cinema history, a moment involving an unwanted guest at a dinner table. His follow-up, When Evil Lurks, confirms that the Argentinian filmmaker knows exactly how to get under your skin.
Even when you then think it may have all settled down, the film twists the knife even further.
This is a dark and timely parable about what happens when trust — among community members, within families, between a government and its people — disintegrates.
It’s an admirably vicious piece of work when it wants to be—although arguably could have gone even further and more frequently.
A fun premise can get a horror film far, and “When Evil Lurks” has one that could be taken to interesting, terrifying places. But rather than lean into what makes its world of demonic diseases intriguing, the film squanders its own potential by leaning into its worst qualities and instincts.
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