There are movies that stay in your head forever and have no intention of leaving, whether that’s for better or worse, but when it’s a horror movie, that fear can easily turn into a full-blown trauma.
As we grow up, there are different things that cause us terror, but when it does at a certain age, it is because it is something extremely dark and disturbing and little is cinema capable of achieving that, but not impossible and this film will give you nightmares and a lot of fear that will make you rethink everything you know.
Sitges is an extremely important film festival worldwide, it focuses on fantasy themes and of course, genre films, so every year there are many works that deserve to be seen, but the winner of this edition 2023 is one of the darkest films that the world has seen in recent dates.
Possibly you have already heard about When Evil Lurks, but it is very difficult to speak only after what you see in the images of that film. With a new universe and new creatures that will be your nightmares, Demian Rugna’s film is definitely a proposal that has never been seen before, indicating that there is still good cinema and when it is international, things get more interesting.
A man is incarnated by a demon in the rurality of a lost village, far from the big cities. Two brothers find this man about to give birth to evil and warn the villagers about the horror that is about to break out. They decide to get rid of the incarnated man, but the only thing they manage to do is to accelerate the process. The demon is born and begins to leave his unmistakable trail of evil. They must flee before the madness and destruction drags them down with it.
What do you think about it? Will you see the Sitges winning film?
