''Belzebuth'' is a 2017 Mexican

horror film Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apoca ...

directed by Emilio Portes, starring Joaquín Cosío and Tobin Bell.

Synopsis

The story begins in a hospital with detective Emmanuel Ritter and his wife celebrating the birth of their baby son. When Ritter receives a call from his office, he leaves and a nurse takes the baby to the nursery. Another nurse, who took the next shift, locks the nursery door, takes out a scalpel, and starts to stab Ritter's son and other infants in the nursery. Before anyone can break into the nursery, the nurse has killed all the newborns and slit her own throat. Many years later, Ritter remains traumatized and emotionally distant, unable to process the death of his son. At work, he learns of a mass shooting at an

elementary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...

. This turns out to be only one of a series of gruesome massacres in the area. Ritter embarks on a paranormal investigation, looking for an excommunicated priest and trying to find the evil force responsible for the shocking incidents.

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* * 2010s English-language films 2010s Spanish-language films Mexican horror films 2017 horror films 2017 films 2017 multilingual films Mexican multilingual films 2010s Mexican films {{2010s-Mexico-film-stub