Cuando acecha la maldad (When Evil Lurks)
2023
***
Director: Demián Rugna
Cast: Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón, Luis Ziembrowski, Silvia Sabater, Marcelo Michinaux, Emiliano Vargas, Paula Rubinsztein, Desirée Salgueiro, Virginia Garófalo, Federico Liss
Two brothers stumble on a man infected by a demonic presence, and inadvertently unleash a series of horrifying events on their community. This Argentinian horror film builds its own possession mythology, introduces a set of rules, and gives us a group of characters who constantly break these rules. Demián Rugna also breaks the genre norm by ignoring who you can and who you can't kill. This leads to some powerful and horrific scenes, but the events, all in all, have disappointing inevitability, no matter what the brothers do.
