Cultural Icons React to the Nastiest Horror Movie Streaming This Year: “Really, truly merciless”
Demián Rugna’s When Evil Lurks is going to be tough to beat this year. Right alongside Talk to Me, it’s one of the year’s standout examples of subverting supernatural expectations with savage, lasting results. After a brief theatrical window in early October, When Evil Lurks hit Shudder at the end of the month, eager to traumatize an entirely new legion of unsuspecting audience members. Weeks later, it still has the internet in a chokehold. Check out the trailer and synopsis below.
Per Shudder: When brothers Pedro and Jimmy discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse, they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community. Now they must outrun an encroaching evil as it corrupts and mutilates everyone it is exposed to, and enlist the aid of a wizened “cleaner,” who holds the only tools that can stop this supernatural plague.
It’s a terrifying film, full-stop, and while general audiences have been eating it up, several celebs, including Manhunt writer Gretchen Felker-Martin, illustrator/writer Trevor Henderson, and drag queen Katya Zamolodchikova, have been loving Rugna’s descent into absolute madness.
Check out their tweets below:
When Evil Lurks really does hate kids. Our own Josh Korngut (a celeb in his own right) remarked in his review, “There’s something so macabre and anti-Hollywood about killing children characters in horror, and When Evil Lurks shows no fear in this department.” Josh is right. When Evil Lurks is a no-holds-barred foray into the darkest recesses of the human mind, and once you’ve seen it, it’ll be impossible to shake.
What do you think? Did When Evil Lurks live up to its expectations for you? How comfortable are you with a dog in your house now? Let me know over on Twitter @Chadiscollins.
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