Here Comes the Devil is a horror movie. The problem is that writer-director Adrián García Bogliano can t decide what kind of horror movie he wants it to be.
Is it a slasher flick? A creepy sexual morality tale? A revenge thriller? A 1970s throwback about Satanic possession and the breakdown of the family dynamic? Sure, let s just chuck all of that in there, add some blood spurtings and bare breasts, then see what sticks.
Actually, intermingling all those subcategories of the horror genre could have made for a rich and fascinating update on the spirits-invade-the-kids story that s been done so many times before, in films ranging from The Exorcist to Insidious. Unfortunately, the direction of Bogliano, the Argentina-raised filmmaker behind previous shockers Cold Sweat and Penumbra, lacks the sophistication needed to braid all of those threads. Instead, Here Comes the Devil is a 98-minute mess with misogynistic undertones, a film that so blatantly tries to titillate an