Here Comes the Devil (2012)
A married couple loses their children while on a family trip near some caves in Tijuana. The kids eventually reappear without explanation, but it becomes clear that they are not who they used to be, that something terrifying has changed them.
We all know the score with films like this. Kids go missing, return apparently unharmed. After a while they seem different, start disecting cats in the garden, practically murdering an unsuspecting school pal before turning on their parents. It's a tried and tested formula and.....
Here Comes the Devil is not like this at all.
This Mexican offering is a different beast all together centering on the parents. From the outset this a dark brutal and foreboding horror film full of tension. Francisco Barreiro and especially Laura Caro as the mother carry the film beautifully. It's their actions and reactions which propel the film along in an unpredictable sense. The film has an unnerving air to it which felt more at home in seventies cinema than it does here making the whole experience feel like a mature piece of film making and as far away from the norm as you can get. It would spoil it for others to go into detail but this is a film with a denouement that verges on the downright disturbing.
Here Comes the Devil is highly recommended.
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