When Evil Lurks

In a rural town in Argentina, 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 spreading the chaos. Six years ago, filmmaker Demian Rugna entered the international horror scene with his fantastic and scary flick, Terrified. It set him on the radar of horror fans around the world and then kept us waiting six long years (yes, yes, there were the boom boom times in the middle there…) for this equally thrilling, scary, and at the time of writing this, award-winning follow-up. Rugna uses possession like a contagious pathogen (see the boom boom times), one so easy to catch that no one – or thing – is safe. He capitalizes on that knowledge of our anxieties and dread, often forecasting what he is going to do next. And as much as they forecast what is coming up in equal measure they also shock and surprise. It is the best of both anticipation and surprise, one gnarly kill at a time.

Winner of the best feature film award in Official In Competition Selection at Sitges in Spain you can prepare yourselves for one of the best horror films of the year, nay, the decade, but as we said earlier, no one is safe. Even our audience.