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The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 156: When Evil Lurks (2023)
🕑 Added 2025-10-27 22:19:14 +0000 UTCIt's time to close out another month of horror on the Watchcast, and this week we've got the movie voted on by you! The patron! Specifically, we've got Argentina's When Evil Lurks on deck, and we dig deep into its portrayal of demonic possession as a fact of life that its characters are neither overly surprised by, nor especially adept at dealing with.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 156: When Evil Lurks (2023)
(00:00:36) - Intro.
(00:06:07) - A little bit of production background.
(00:13:26) - Kicking things off with some gunshots and scattered pieces of a guy.
(00:18:19) - Meeting the Rotten.
(00:27:13) - Maybe we just shouldn't have told Ruiz about any of this.
(00:37:44) - Break!
(00:38:04) - We're back, and it's time for people to start dying.
(00:46:02) - It's time to get the kids...and the dog...
(00:59:59) - Grandma's here to explain some things.
(01:05:08) - Consulting our local Demon Cleaner.
(01:10:30) - Mom's back, and it's time to split the party.
(01:19:31) - A midnight snack, and Jair changes.
(01:25:05) - There's always something unseemly about kids in school at night.
(01:32:06) - It all comes apart.
(01:38:37) - When evil births.
(01:42:08) - Where's grandma?
(01:47:32) - Final thoughts.
(01:53:29) - List placements, and what we've got coming up next month.
(02:00:52) - Outro.
Comments
csl316
I couldn't sleep after watching a handful of Hereditary clips, no chance in hell I could watch this. Fun to hear about it, though!
Cameron Meloun
This was an interesting point from Vinny. I initially felt she was possessed and definitely still do when all is said and done and based on the brutality, but the idea that she would kill him and herself with an axe afterwards to try and stop the evil is also believable and interesting if it wasn't done in such a brutal way.
Zeemod
I know the Wiki says that Ruiz's wife was possessed but I'm more with Vinny here. If she were possessed, why kill herself? The demon just gets a new body and is all of a sudden, "thanks for the meat home time to immediately destroy it"?
