
Demián Rugna
Directing
Biography
Demián Rugna is a writer and editor, known for Terrified (2017), You Don't Know Who You're Talking Too (2016) and Death Knows Your Name (2007).
Known For

When brothers Pedro and Jimi discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse, they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community.
When Evil Lurks

Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.
Terrified

Why do people no longer see this type of stories nowadays? How can this notion be awakened? Which films should begin to feed back from the past and balance them with the current horror?
The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide

An invasion alien threatens the fate of humanity and begins in a village where there are Bill Johnson, John West and Max Giggs. The friends escape from there with the purpose of finding and destroying the invading ship before it completes its evil plan of conquest.
Plaga zombie: zona mutante: revolución tóxica

To escape the leader of a satanic metal band and the father of her unborn child, Lucia moves to a remote cabin with her grandmother. Though safe in her surroundings, she is haunted by his memory and knows he will stop at nothing to track her down.
Welcome to Hell

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Horrible y Fascinante

When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as The Traveler, and when they take him to the station for questioning, he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the horrors he’s encountered in his long time on this earth, about portals to other worlds, mythical creatures, demons and the undead. Stories about Latin American legends.
Satanic Hispanics

Unites 8 Latin American filmmakers from countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Spain, and Mexico in a single feature to count depict in seven stories some of the most brutal crimes that have happened in these countries.
Alerta: recuento de cadáveres

A group of working-class losers plot to give an old gypsy mobster a heart attack in order to recover a valuable car. They decide to build a monster to scare him to death. But they're looking for trouble.
You Don't Know Who You're Talking To

A task force kidnaps the wrong man: a medicine man. He will use his black magic to escape from prison, regardless of the consequences that will last for decades on those who crossed his path.
Cursed Bastards!

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Mi mejor escena

Clara faces a horrifying past when she returns to the town where she grew up while experiencing a marriage crisis. Only a police officer could help her solve what is happening to her grandparents and the rest of the people from the place.
The Sinister

Lidia buys a house in the sierra of Madrid and maintains contact through the Internet with its former owner, Wally, a young man who lives in Argentina. Over time, both fall in love. Everything seems fine between them until their computer connections start to fail seriously. (Film edit of the Limbo web series.)
Limbo: la película

The misuse of an innocent toy will trigger a family tragedy surrounded by death and despair. Carlos will try to save his girlfriend's family from a spiral of tragedy and death before it is too late.
El balerazo

Bruce Taylor works as a doctor at a mental hospital with a dark mysterious history. When the nightmares of a patient start to affect Bruce's sleep, he thinks he might be going crazy himself. Worse still, the discovery of an old human skull threatens everyone with disease. Bruce must call upon his father Anthony for help to figure out the truth behind the skull and stop the spread of the disease.
Death Knows Your Name

A history of Argentine horror cinema, from its beginnings in 1934 to present day. It is a path of defeat, dead-end streets and triumphs, where the protagonists will lead us through the lesser known hallways of local horror.
Another Cursed Movie

A young editor (Esteban) will find that he is a prisoner on his new job: an "editing island".
Post: La aventura completa

Argentinean filmmakers talk about the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Film Festival and the history of genre cinema in Argentina.
Rojo Sangre: 10 años a puro género

In 1997, 17-year-old suburban Buenos Aires filmmakers Pablo Parés and Hernan Sáez pooled $450 to co-write/produce/direct and star in a shot-on-VHS zombie epic of such flesh-ripping, gore-spewing greatness that it instantly drew global cult acclaim and redefined the possibilities of extreme DIY horror. Over the next 20 years, Parés, Sáez and their friends would create two increasingly ambitious – and equally brilliant – viscera-soaked sequels (and several short films) that made them “Argentinian George Romeros who’ve built a small empire of gore flicks”
1 Million Zombies: The Story of Plaga Zombie

The film tells the story of Bruno, who drives his motor scooter through the streets of Buenos Aires, making deliveries to the premises of "Extraordinary Objects" of his uncles. His friends wait for him to start the weekend but an unexpected accident with a relative changes his plans. Bruno starts a weekend of adventures, which will involve a scientist, a girl with unusual beauty, a group of aliens who love human flesh and an eccentric modern artist.