Borrows a number of elements from other creepy kid stories and reinvents and revives them in fresh ways, thanks in large part to the atmospheric dread being felt throughout.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2023

Bogliano, at last, manages to show remarkable restraint in the proceedings, with Here Comes the Devil recalling some great genre art house efforts from decades past.

| Aug 29, 2019

Here Comes The Devil may be awful a lot of the time, yet I can't deny its power at keeping me invested throughout.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jul 2, 2019

Here Comes the Devil is one of the most interesting, frightening and thoroughly alive-both intellectually and viscerally-works of horror and dread this critic has seen in a very, very long time.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 23, 2017

The film builds to an effectively tense climax, but spends much of its runtime bogged down by tonally incongruous sub-plots that alternate between boring and nonsensical.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 7, 2014

There's probably a frightening movie in there somewhere, or at least a darkly intriguing one, but this version can't unravel the chills of a half-glimpsed mystery.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 20, 2014

An auteur like Carlos Reygadas would have taken this in a worthwhile direction, and he did something like this with his significantly artier film Post Tenebras Lux.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 13, 2014

Fuses the grindhouse with the arthouse into an interesting but unsatisfying hybrid.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2014

Has mood but no real presence, making the movie a grab bag of lustful encounters and skin-ripping gore, while submitting the most vaginally-inspired imagery of the film year.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 30, 2014

The idiosyncratic, jagged-meets-subtle style writer-director Adrin Garca Bogliano demonstrates in this Mexican horror story suggests we'll be seeing more of his nightmares.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 27, 2013

"Here Comes the Devil" is a horror movie. The problem is that writer-director Adrin Garca Bogliano can't decide what kind of horror movie he wants it to be.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 13, 2013

A muddled supernatural thriller that fails to capitalize on either its horrific prologue or eerie location.

| Dec 12, 2013

Fond of lurching weirdness, jarring inserts and sonic loudness, Bogliano shows he's invested as much in conveying the psychodrama of a fractured home as he is the signposts of edgy, bloody retro-infused terror.

| Dec 12, 2013

Bogliano keeps the focus on the psychology rather than the bloodlust, so "Here Comes The Devil" rises above the schlock of typical horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2013

Bogliano provides a steady series of jolts, all the way to an ending that's twisty but ultimately unsatisfying.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 12, 2013

But once it becomes clear that the children really are possessed -- cue the flickering lights and late-night levitation -- Here Comes the Devil settles into an all-too familiar groove.

| Dec 11, 2013

Bogliano's unnerving mood, complemented by grungy camerawork and a shroud of sonic chaos, provides an emotional strain that makes anything possible.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2013

Horror movies punish the sexually irresponsible; the Spanish-language film Here Comes the Devil manages to indict a married couple with that slasher-movie charge.

| Dec 10, 2013

Here Comes The Devil embraces a certain amount of midnight movie fun, but with a lack of true horror, you'll be screaming "WHAT?!" for all the wrong reasons.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 10, 2013

Intriguing if ultimately less than satisfying.

| Dec 9, 2013