When Evil Lurks: The Penalty of Ignoring the Marginalized

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Kathryn joins Melvin to discuss our latest Patreon-picked movie, When Evil Lurks! This Argentinian horror flick made the rounds in 2023, catching a lot of attention and exploding in popularity once it landed on Shudder. It’s also a combination of grounded & crazy! The two get into it all!

Topics:

• (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 20-minutes discussing the trailer for Jurassic World: Rebirth, Gareth Edwards’ upcoming Summer blockbuster, and how it might be doing away with Trevorrow’s… lackluster style and embrace being a horror-filled island adventure! (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
• When Melvin received the push-notification that a Patreon Supporter had submitted When Evil Lurks for February’s Patreon Pick, he audibly reacted. It’s a visceral film, and the two talk about that for a bit.
• Is it weird to like a movie that’s so pointedly miserable?
• Kathryn, “This movie just evoked in me a lot of ‘social sadness’.”.
• The film isn’t drawing attention to it, but virtually every character within the film exists in a state of marginalization.
• When Evil Lurks has conviction. It trusts what it’s doing, and it trusts you’ll understand it.
• It’s not as vicious as Terrifier 2, but the violence here is pretty nuts.
• “Evil loves children. And children love evil.”
• Discussing those two crazy shocking scenes in the film. You know the ones.
• When a system fails, the marginalized are the first to suffer.
• Discussing the ending and how it left us.

Recommendations:

• Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear by Jinger Vuolo (2024) (Book)
• Terrified (2017) (Movie)

When Evil Lurks is Not Rated. It features Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón, Silvina Sabarer, Luis Ziembrowski, Marcelo Michinaux, Emilio Vodanovich, Virginia Garófalo, Paula Rubinsztein, and Lucrecia Nirón Talazac. Directed by Demián Rugna. When Evil Lurks is available here.

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Melvin Benson is the Founder, Editor-In-Chief, and Lead Host of Cinematic Doctrine. Whether it’s a movie, show, game, comic, or novel, it doesn’t matter. As long as it’s rich, he’s ready and willing to give it a try! His hope is to see King Jesus glorified as far as the east is from the west!

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