Here Comes the Devil

Here Comes the Devil (released in Spanish as *Ahí va el diablo*) is a 2012 Mexican horror film directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano. It debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2012, and features Francisco Barreiro and Laura Caro as parents who fear their children have encountered a malevolent force.

The story begins with a serial killer attacking a lesbian couple; he kills one woman but is severely injured by the other. The dying man crawls up a rocky hill, and his body is never recovered. Years later, siblings Adolfo (Alan Martinez) and Sara (Michele Garcia) vanish into a cave on the same hill during a family outing. Their frantic parents, Felix (Barreiro) and Sol (Caro), search for them. A gas station attendant warns that the hill is cursed, and an unusual earthquake occurs that night. The children are found by police the next morning and returned home, but they begin acting strangely. Medical and psychological evaluations suggest possible sexual abuse. Felix and Sol suspect a local outcast named Lucio assaulted Sara, so they confront and kill him, though later evidence convinces Sol of his innocence. Police suspect the parents but never charge them.

Strange events escalate at home: noises, flickering lights, slamming doors, and the children experiencing unnatural seizures. Sol believes something supernatural is at work, while Felix insists on rational explanations and buys a gun. Sol investigates on her own, discovering that Adolfo and Sara are skipping school to take the bus back to the hill. She follows them to the cave entrance but does not enter. Sol also learns that her friend Marcia, who babysat the night of Lucio’s murder, has vanished. When Sol tracks her down, Marcia describes the children as “lifeless,” claims she was supernaturally attacked by the devil, and says she witnessed Adolfo and Sara committing incest.

Sol returns to the hill at dawn and enters the cave, where she finds the children’s dead bodies, still dressed in the clothes they wore the day they disappeared. Staggering out, she calls Felix, who insists he dropped the kids off at school just fifteen minutes earlier. Shaken, Sol speaks to the gas station attendant, who reveals his daughter was the serial killer’s victim. He explains that when the killer vanished on the hill, an earthquake occurred—just like the night the children disappeared. He says the h