Happy Halloween, everyone!
Go watch When Evil Lurks on Shudder.
It is an AMAZING new horror film from Argentinian director Demián Rugna. Guillermo del Toro and Scotty Derrickson praised it, so I figured I would give it a shot, and I was blown away.
I am a lifelong horror enthusiast, so I don’t say this lightly: it was one of the most interesting, innovative, unique, disturbing, horrifying, beautifully shot, cleverly written, well acted, masterfully paced, compelling films the genre has seen since, at least, the French New Wave horror films of the aughts, and frankly immediately skyrocketed to the upper echelon of my all-time list. And if that didn’t sell you, my fellow horror maven, loved it as well. I think this may be the only film I can recall that actually had both of us grizzled vets wanting to look away from the screen at certain points haha
Final note, the film also further proves my theory that when we emerge from our caves years from now after the Woke Anti-Life Plague has subsided and the forces of Freedom have vanquished the night, I believe it will have been Hispanics and South Koreans who will have held the line against the zombie armies of Hollywood Woke Whiteys, Omega Wave Feminists, and Race Peddlers like (the otherwise actually talented) Jordan Peele. Maybe it is some Grant Morrison-like language virus that is corrupting the minds of Western, English-speaking countries!
Either way, so many of the great game devs, artists, writers, and directors (from Game Kitchen to Del Toro, Frank Cho to Hwang Dong-hyuk) fighting the good fight against The Narrative© today by creating badass characters, intelligent stories, nuanced themes, brazen sex and gore, and innovative aesthetics seem to be coming from these geo-cultural-linguistic bastions. And people with the last name Cronenberg...
But anyway, fight on, brave Hispanics and Koreans!
