After a great launch in the United States and awaiting its local premiere, scheduled for November 9, the film “When Evil Stalks”, the fourth solo title by Argentine director Demián Rugna, was today considered the Best Feature Film of the 56th Sitges Fantastic Film Festival (Spain).
The story of the award-winning film is set in a remote rural Argentine town where two brothers discover a monstrous man infected by evil forces, who is about to give birth to a demon.
The director, born 44 years ago in the Buenos Aires suburb of Haedo, said last Tuesday, at the presentation of the film in a competition that ends tomorrow, that he set out to make “a good story and that violence was the instrument of that story: My “The goal is not only to show strong scenes.”
“I sought to make a different film, about possession and exorcism, but one that was nothing like this type of film. Therefore, the first thing I did was that religion did not have any type of effect,” he explained about the film. screening where he was accompanied by
Ezequiel Rodríguez, one of the protagonists of the story, and the producer Fernando Díaz.
“When Evil Stalks”, whose cast is completed by Demián Salomón, Silvina Sabater, Virginia Garófalo, Luis Ziembrowski, Emilio Vodanovich, Marcelo Michinaux, Paula Rubinsztein and Desiré Salgueiro, arrived at the most important event of this film genre with the history of having had a release in more than 800 theaters in the United States, something practically unprecedented for a national film.
Before that international launch and this award, the most important of his career, Rugna directed “The last entry” (2007), “You don’t know who you’re talking to” (2016) and “Aterrados” (2017) and also took part in the collective tapes “Damn Sean!” (2011, where he contributed “Cafeomancia” and “El curandero”) and “Hispanos satánicos” (2022, with the chapter “Yo also lo vi”).
National culture was also present in other instances of the Sitges honors list according to what was reported by the festival director, Ángel Sala, since the novel “Advantages of traveling on a train”, by the Argentine Kike Ferrari, was the basis of ” Flies”, film by the Basque Aritz Moreno, with national actors Ernesto Alterio, Mara Bestelli, Claudio Rissi and Tomás Pozzi, which deserved a special mention for “its beautiful vision of the ugly side of Buenos Aires”, according to the jury’s ruling.
Source: Ambito
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