When Evil Lurks - The Penalty of Ignoring the Marginalized

PATREON MOVIE DISCUSSION: 

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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)