When Demián Rugna was a child “he played with little soldiers to make horror movies, which were increasingly more violent. My dolls fought among themselves and I bought red tempera paints to incorporate the blood.” Demián's parents did not pay much interest in their son's entertainment, but when the boy began to draw "they did worry because my comics were very violent, so they sent me to the educational psychologist, who found everything wonderful because he understood that I was channeling violence through art.”
“My mother gave me license to kill,” jokes the director in an interview with La Vanguardia during his time at the Sitges Festival. With that maternal permission and his natural talent, it was inevitable that Rugna would become the most famous horror film director in Argentina. “Although it wasn't easy. There was a moment when I was about to throw in the towel, my films didn't work, they said they were too '80s, but then they became fashionable and became something like the evolution of the genre."
Terrified (2017) was a bomb and now fans of the genre love Rugna. It is enough for her name to appear on the screen for a huge applause to break out. And her name has appeared in very bright letters at this Sitges Festival. Rugna has presented When Evil Stalks, a demonic thriller that has excited the public and already smells like a prize.
Two brothers who live on a ranch discover that one of their neighbors is intoxicated, that is, that he has a demonic germ inside him. A cleaner arrived at the scene to heal the infected person, but he died dismembered. Evil takes over the entire area despite the attempts of the two protagonists to stop the gestation of Satan...
Rugna plays with psychological terror (although he does not make ugly a few ax blows and trails of blood) because “there are things that are not seen and that helps the viewer to finish constructing the story, in When evil stalks, evil is gets into the head and that can generate madness and terror,” says the director whose film has already screened at the Toronto Film Festival and has been released in 660 theaters in the United States.
