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| A striking, horror-insinuating poster for Adrian Garcia Bogliano's Here Comes the Devil |
A lesbian couple are attacked by a mysterious man. Another couple's two children go missing inside a mountain in the desert on the day that the girl gets her first period, but they return, altered.
Here Comes the Devil is written and directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano (Rooms for Tourists/Habitaciones para Turistas (2004)). The English title is a literal translation of the original Spanish title.
It is a punky low-budget sex horror picture that opens with lesbian sex and ends in heavy growl metal! It is rife with cool 1970s retro style zooms. The film succeeds in creating an eerie and disturbing core tale about the strange children, the mysterious mountain, - an atypical tale that fascinates.
SPOILER The ending culminates supernaturally and is not really satisfying, though the film is very worth seeing for horror fans.
Bogliano introduces his film here
Cost: Unknown
Box office: 6k $
= Uncertain
[Here Comes the Devil premiered 11 September (Toronto International Film Festival) and runs 97 minutes. Shooting took place in Mexico. The film opened #83 to a 783$ first weekend in North America, where it it peaked at #76 but never in more than 2 theaters, grossing 4k $. The-numbers.com lists another 1,649$ as the film's sole gross, a tiny result by any standards. If made on a minuscule 100k $ budget, the film would still rank as a box office disaster, if this gross is accurate. Bogliano returned with a segment of The ABCs of Death (2012) and by himself with Night of the Wolf/Late Phases (2014). Laura Caro (Lo que Callamos las Mujeres (2001, TV-series) did not return as an actress; Francisco Barreiro (Juntos (2009)) returned in 4 Noviembre 1990 (2012, short), Abrigo Rojo (2013, short) and theatrically in Loves Her Gun (2013). Here Comes the Devil is rotten at 44 % with a 5.60/10 average rating at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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