‘When Evil Lurks’ Review – One of Us
Is this horror movie as scary as the trailers let on? Find out in the One of Us crew’s When Evil Lurks review.
Two brothers, Pedro and Jimmy, live out in the countryside, scattered among a few other poor residents. But everyone is always somewhat on edge, waiting… for what? As it turns out, many years before, there was an epidemic of demonic possessions in the cities (possibly tying this film into director Demian Rugna’s previous horror, Terrified) that pretty much wiped them out. Only the folks living on the outskirts at least somewhat believe in their safety.
But when it turns out a local family is hiding a ‘rotten’ (a member of their family that is possessed and so grotesquely overweight that they can’t really move anymore), they decide the best thing to do is to drive the thing 100s of miles away and dump it. Why not just kill it? This world has very specific demon rules. One of them seems to be that if you don’t kill these possessed folks in a very specific and arcane way that only a few are equipped to do, you just make the situation worse. Much worse. Before you know it, things get worse anyway. The two, and their extended families, find they may be facing the beginning of the end… of everything.
When Evil Lurks Review
Rugna makes Lucio Fulci-like horrors dripping with exquisitely designed gore sequences but with considerably better acting and scripts and is rapidly headed to the top of modern horror masters. Chris and Wright found When Evil Lurks to be the best horror film of Fantastic Fest 2023, and guess what…if you hurry up, you might even be able to catch it in a theater right now! Or very shortly on Shudder. Either way, do not miss this one if you are an aficionado of all things bloody.
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