Poster and Photos from Here Comes the Devil

Here Comes the Devil premieres tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival, and we've been provided with photos and a poster to share with our readers. The film is directed by Adrían García Bogliano and stars Francisco Barreiro, Laura Caro, Michele Garcia, and Alan Martinez.

"A young family with two preteen kids — a son and a daughter —stop their car at a roadside gas station across from a large, unusual hill while on a family trip in Tijuana. The two kids, Sara (Michele Garcia) and Adolfo (Alan Martinez), explore the hill on their own, only to vanish into thin air. The following day, they return to their distraught parents, seemingly unharmed, and claiming to have gotten lost in a dark cave on the slope.

While father Félix (Francisco Barreiro) is relieved to have the children back, mother Sol (Laura Caro) soon starts to notice that something isn't quite right with Sara and Adolfo, who are acting sullen, avoiding school and freaking out their babysitter. As these domestic troubles take on an increasingly supernatural cast, Félix and Sol dig deeper into what happened that day on the hillside — and soon discover an unthinkable, but chillingly plausible, explanation for their children's disjointed behaviour.

After bursting onto the international genre scene with Rooms for Tourists in 2004, Argentinian filmmaker Adrián García Bogliano returns with the sublime chiller Here Comes the Devil. Avoiding the pitfalls of more exploitive fare that make use of similar demonic devices, Bogliano steers clear of spinning heads and Satanic showdowns in favour of a claustrophobic, gradually building tension that sets the unknown threat against the backdrop of domestic banality. Bogliano also treats the sexuality of his characters with an honest reality that is refreshing, but this is due in part to the performances of Barreiro and Caro. Each brings a palpable concern and tension to their portrayal of a married couple in a moment of panic, and their fear of seeing their family get torn apart is wholly real and tangible. Following the credo of less is more, Here Comes the Devil is an unexpected treat that manages to delicately balance between low-key realism and darkly hysterical psychedelic desire."