WHEN EVIL LURKS
Cuando acecha la maldad
Friday, Sept 13 at 9:30 PM
The Cinematheque
Director: Demián Rugna
Argentina | 2023 | Spanish with English subtitles | 99 min | Horror/Suspense
Content Forecast: Violence and Gore
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In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man infected by evil forces that is about to give birth to a demon. Desperate to avoid the entrance of Evil into their peaceful world, the brothers will discover the terrible truth: it is too late.
En un pueblo remoto, dos hermanos descubren a un hombre infectado por fuerzas malignas que está a punto de dar a luz a un demonio. Desesperados por evitar la entrada del Mal a su pacífico mundo, los hermanos descubrirán la terrible verdad: es demasiado tarde.
“Argentine genre specialist Demian Rugna’s latest is no mere opportunistic cash-in, either, with its own distinctive and non-formulaic take on the notion of an evil spirit that strikes like a malignant disease.”
-Dennis Harvey, Variety
Best Motion Picture, Sitges- Catalonian International Film Festival, 2023
Best Feature Film, Gérardmer Film Festival, 2024
Critics Award, Gérardmer Film Festival, 2024
DEMIÁN RUGNA
(Haedo, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1979). Writer and director specialized in Fantastic & Horror films. His film When Evil Lurks, chosen as the best horror film of 2023, was the first Latin American film to win the Sitges festival.
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