[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by AC

Just watched the Argentine horror movie When Evil Lurks, probably the best of the year. Might be the bleakest and meanest horror movies I've seen.

I saw this list recently:
https://letterboxd.com/horrorville/l...films-of-2023/

And still need to track down / wait for a few of the other top rated ones. I'm especially looking forward to that Korean one, Sleep.

I feel this film is getting pretty overrated amongst critics. I think there is a good film idea there but the implementation wasn't good enough. It's not a bad film in this genre (most are pretty terrible) but I didn't find it overly scary or memorable. It could have been better with tighter writing.

Spoiler!

What's the point of having rules to follow if everyone is going to ignore them to doom themselves and their family? Things really fell apart at the end in the school house when the woman is putting together her rig to kill the possesses dude only for the guy to go rogue at the last minute (he finally decided to listen to the girl he was slapping around minutes prior?) to doom everyone in his family circle. Sudden stupid character syndrome is a horror movie killer for me.