When Evil Lurks was one hell of a ride…
First off, wow! How have I not watched this movie sooner?
I went in knowing about one of the kills in the movie (the dog one yknow) but holy shit I was not expecting them to go full ham on killing everyone that they did!
Kids are so rarely killed in horror, and even less so in such an up close, brutal way where everything is shown to the audience. I knew the dog was going to get the girl, but I figured it would be a cutaway kind of thing where we didn’t see the actual maiming bc that’s what I’m used to. Nope. Got to see her thrown around like a literal chew toy.
Then the youngest son! I figured the mom was eating him even before it showed her doing it bc Mirta said something about the possessed eating people right before it cut to the mom walking down the road. But wtf she was eating his brains out like his head was a bucket of fucking popcorn. Seeing her actually carrying his whole dead body while digging around in his head like she was trying to get the last chip in a chip bag made me have to rewind and watch it again. I loved that they made such a visceral prop to show this scene. Really cool.
The poor grandmother. I figured she was going to die but the fact that our last look of her alive is her realization that something terrible is about to happen to her… Wow. Then the autistic son coughing up her hair and necklace as the only answer about what happened to her was great.
Pedro running away from the stage really pissed me off, ngl. I guess you could argue the demon was manipulating him but like 3 minutes before that he literally just had that little girl on the ground slapping the shit out of her and calling her a liar. Then he found actual proof she was lying. Like???
I feel like the most chilling scare of all was the autistic son’s eyes cutting over to look his dad in the eye before moving away again. It was like the demon was checking to see if he fell for it or it just couldn’t help but break the act a little bit just so it could see the horrified realization on Pedro’s face.
All in all, very good movie!