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Film Brain is unsettled by this Argentinian Shudder horror flick, but unfortunately that became for all the wrong reasons due to an element that rather ruined it for him.

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00:00 Out now on Shudder is Argentinian horror When Evil Lurks.

00:04 When two brothers try to move a possessed rotten, they inadvertently release the evil

00:09 on their entire isolated town, and have to try and outrun its rapid spread.

00:14 When Evil Lurks really got under my skin, it has a great sense of foreboding and atmosphere

00:20 punctuated by shocking sudden bursts of graphic violence, and the movie is indiscriminate

00:26 in its victims.

00:27 What makes these moments even more surprising is that you learn the mythos as it goes along,

00:32 it tells by showing, although around the midway point a character does explain all the rules

00:37 to the audience in a big exposition dump, which might explain why the second half of

00:41 the movie starts to lose its grasp on the audience.

00:44 By far the worst thing about the movie is the introduction of an autistic teen who only

00:48 serves as the ending punchline, spoken of with lines like "the demons can't understand

00:53 their minds" which is both stupid and offensive, it's seriously soured an otherwise pretty

00:58 great horror movie.

When Evil Lurks (REVIEW) | Projector Shorts | Great horror movie except for one big thing...

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