In a remote village, two brothers find a mutilated corpse near their property. They are told that the strange things happening in their village are due to a demon spirit that has settled in the purulent body of that man. The evil from which he suffers soon spreads like an epidemic, affecting other inhabitants of the region.
Demián Rugna, the bad boy of current horror cinema, uses a deliciously anxiety-inducing direction to give this family drama remarkable scope, summoning up the real demons of a country in crisis.
“When evil lurks manages to balance extreme gory violence with an unsettlingly bleak tone”.
Amartya Acharya High on films 11/10/2023
Audience Award, Critics’ Prize, Festival de Gérardmer, 2024, fr
Best Motion Picture, Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival, 2023, es
Demián Rugna
: Born in 1979 in Haedo, Argentina, Demián Rugna starts his career with short horror films and screenplays. He then moved on to feature films with La última entrada (2003). His fourth film, Terrified (2017), won numerous awards and became the highest-grossing horror film in Argentina. He recently contributed to an anthology entitled Satanic Hispanics (2022). When Evil Lurks is his fifth feature film.
