The shocking Argentine supernatural thriller When Evil Lurks / Cuando la maldad acecha became this weekend the very first Latin American movie to win the award for Best Feature Film in the entire 56-year history of the Sitges Film Festival. The fourth film from Argentine master of horror, writer-director Demián Rugna (Terrified) was also the winner of the the Blood Window Award for Best Feature Film.
When Evil Lurks, which opened on Friday, October 6 in over 600 theaters across the US, follows brothers Pedro (Ezequiel Rodríguez) and Jimmy (Demián Salomón), who discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse — its very proximity poisoning the local livestock — and attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community. Now they must outrun an encroaching evil as it corrupts and mutilates everyone it is exposed to, and enlist the aid of a wizened “cleaner,” who holds the only tools that can stop this supernatural plague.
Starring Luis Ziembrowski, Virginia Garófamo, Demián Salomón and Marcelo Michinaux, When Evil Lurks will have its US streaming release on October 27 on Shudder. Additionally, Mexican director Guillermo del Toro had announced that he’ll produce the American remake of Rugna’s previous horror movie Terrified.
