Fifty years after The Exorcist broke new ground in horror cinema, a new movie about demonic possession comes to our multiplexes that’s fully in the spirit of the late William Friedkin’s film. I’m referring, of course, to When Evil Lurks, which is much gnarlier than The Exorcist: Believer. Where David Gordon Green’s
Terrified director Demián Rugna is back with his darkest film yet, When Evil Lurks. Jeremy Thomas checks in with his review of the demonic horror film.
Courtesy of Shudder and IFC FilmsWhen Evil Lurks is a nightmare about contagion and paranoia that benefits from not underlining its larger socio-political ideas. Furthermore, it’s proof that Terrified writer/director Demián Rugna is a skilled genre craftsman, delivering scares at a pace that rarely allows one to catch their breath, and with enough gruesome surprises to consistently startle. In theaters Oct. 6 and on Shudder Oct. 27 (following its recent appearance in the Midnight Madness section