Before screening at Night Visions Film Festival the director mentioned that the film has many references to the works of Alejandro Jodorowsky.
It is Colombia's genre film with wider international distribution and the most festival selections in history beating Jaime Osorio Marquez "The Squad".
Luz: The Flower of Evil was shot in two and a half weeks under the simpler title of Luz and renamed to avoid confusion with Tilman Singer's film of the same name. It's part of the folk horror revival of the last few years.