source: Belzebuth

This was just the type of horror demonic movie I've been waiting on! I really don't watch too many foreign films but have this a try. Needless to say I was pleasantly satisfied. The lead actor could have been better but I could overlook that and still enjoy the film. I highly recommend you give this a watch.

The move was bad! Effects bad! Plot bad! It just sucked.

Maybe I just got too excited when I heard Tobin Bell's beautiful voice narrating the first scene, then saw him covered in cool tats with a metalhead beard, then an incredibly twisted opening murder scene but what followed was a little too slow and convoluted for my liking. The performances were pretty great across the board, the cinematography was cool and there were some exciting set pieces but overall the film left me feeling quite empty and wishing for a film with tatted Tobin was the lead.

Following reports of strange activity, a police officer in Mexico begins investigating a series of tragic accidents on small children around the city and discovers a connection with a special religious prophecy about to come to pass and must confront the Satanic figures controlling the situation. For the most part, this was an incredibly enjoyable and chilling genre effort. Among the more engaging elements featured here is the fact that it manages to mix together the rather intriguing storylines present. The idea of integrating the black magic and superstitions with a more realistic approach, with the paranormal team arriving to investigate the different areas of the city with their high-end equipment and tools alongside the need for investigating the series of strange incidents that are afflicted with. This is all handled in a rather fun manner with the different manners in how they're connected to the main cop and spreading out to the other activities around the city, adding a truly chilling storyline setup that starts the film off nicely. With that setup in place, the film begins to hit its stride with the escalating series of encounters shown throughout here. Starting with the outright shocking and brutal attack on a children's nursery and to follow it up with the aftermath of the school shooting, there are some great scenes here that establish a fine mystery to start with. Escalating from there to the children's swim meet and then the incident at the movie theater with the abduction followed by the suicide bomber attack, there are several truly chilling scenes here that showcase the initial power of the evil forces they're dealing with. With the crazy revelations that emerge with the temptation sequence in the abandoned house, there's plenty to like here as this one remains enjoyable for the most part. There are some flaws in the film. The main issue befalling the film is a serious and abrupt change of tone that emerges once the film moves into the final act. With the temptation sequence playing out in the abandoned house in the abandoned village, the idea of a Jesus statue coming to life and speaking demonic threats to the characters is just wholly silly and ludicrous compared to a more measured and vicious tone that had come before. The scene is wholly out-of-place in the film and stop it dead in its tracks away from the chilling and realistic religious work into a cliched, overblown possession film that may have plenty of strong violence and gore but feels like a tonally different movie after that point. This is massively underwhelming and really lowers this one the most. Just as bad is the final half hour which is a typically over-the-top and generic exorcism scene that runs through the generally expected scenes that are expected to be found in this kind of film. From people speaking in multiple demonic voices at once, spouting off ludicrously vague threats about their fates in the afterlife and the supernatural attacks on those helping and concluding with the levitating body and it just feels tired to include this in the film. With this section of the film making it feel far longer than it should be as the film approaches the two-hour mark because of that, it feels tacked on in the worst way and really ends up holding this one down as well. Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Saw this gem at the Lincoln center scary movie festival in NYC. I was really impressed. Very entertaining. Never slowed down & the tension kept escalating to a very dramatic finale. I've seen it all when it comes a to demon / exorcism films but this one has some new stuff that surprised me. Some very entertaining and fun scenes. The story is a bit wild I admit but it's very original and you'll never be bored. One of the wildest exorcism scenes I've ever witnessed on film. Enjoy!

The trailers for this movie are far more effective than the actual movie itself. This movie wants so badly to be scary and dreadful but just comes across as half-assed instead. For all the hoopla about exorcisms and the devil and demons this movie had no real effective atmosphere to go along with it. You can tell that the makers of the movie wanted badly for the audience to be scared by this film. Unfortunately it lacked all the ingredients to do so. It felt like a made for TV movie with f-words and blood thrown in to somehow try and elevate it beyond that. It never did. For pete's sake there's even a (very poor) CGI Jesus statue that is "possessed" by the devil and talks to the main characters. How could you take the source material and put in R-rated content only to come off feeling like a Hallmark movie? I don't know the answer to that and I don't think anyone else does either.

I am a fan of horror movies and something that I criticize of my country is that Mexico does not do much film in this genre and those that have been done lately have left much to be desired. belzebuth I found it very entertaining with a good script that was possibly not well achieved .... It was a great surprise to watch this movie and find it something different from the horror that is made in Mexico and so explicit and a bit blasphemous .... I recommend you take your time and look at it without waiting for a summer blockbuster .. the cinema should entertain and in my opinion this film complies.

Seriously, how did that guy land the lead role? Im talking about the Ritter guy -who thought it would be a good idea to make your main character fat, old, ugly, stubborn, dumb, unlikeable, and totally incompetent at his job?

It wouldn't have been bad, if it wasn't for the CGI. It was creepy and dark. Brutal murder scenes, especially because children were involved. Then the CGI Jesus happened and I couldn't get back completely. It was laughable. Everything else wasn't bad. Good movie to kill time with or as long as you don't buy it. Ritter was a difficult character to like. He was awful to the mother of the school shooter. I get that he's hardened from his tragedy because he was nicer then but man was cold!