I'm focusing on the ending and leaving the rest of the movie for others to discuss. If you haven't seen the film yet, you definitely DON'T WANT TO READ this.The ending is abrupt, confusing, problematic, anti-climactic and unnecessary. It's way out of step with the gratuitous movie that precedes it. It's near impossible to follow on the first viewing and if you do manage it then you're still left with a heck of a lot of questions: Was the homeless baby the child of Satan? If so why did the thugs kill the child? If the thug boss is supposed to be Satan, was he always Satan or did Satan possess him only this night? Following this enigmatic confrontation scene we get an enigmatic "conclusion". Why are the surviving characters living as bums? How have they escaped public attention? Why don't we get more insight into their own interpretation of events? It may be the writers were going for an "art house" European ending, designed to make us think about the nature of fascism. However that could have easily been accomplished without derailing the whole birth of Satan narrative. Personally I suspect the editors accidentally destroyed 90% of the ending footage and patched what remained together as best as they could.Here's some more problems with it (basically everything feels wrong!!!): The heroes see the homeless couple trying to sleep with their baby under some cardboard. Suddenly the thugs attack - one thug, apparently holding a revolver, shoots a dozen shots without reloading. He misses the heroes at point blank range. You would imagine the couple would panic and desperately protect their baby but inexplicably they remain trying to sleep under the cardboard and are killed by the thug.Next the priest and the metalhead jump in an elevator which immediately takes them to the top of the building site. Why is this apparently important building site completely unguarded? Why is the elevator switched on and fully functional? The elevator seems a little bit too fast for a typical work site in my opinion. And why are the heroes completely relaxed at this point? Shouldn't they be panicking or planning their next move? Wtf? The next scene or two play out passably. The metalhead plunges to his death, the priest grabs a gun and heads downstairs. He surprises the two thugs and shoots them dead. He sees that the couple have died with their baby (they have died face down with the baby on top of them? Surely not). Next up Satan tries to sneak up on the priest with a baseball bat, knowing full well the priest is armed with a pistol. Is Satan really that stupid? Terrible anti-climax. There is zero suspense, the scene is over before we can even understand what's happening. You would imagine that Satan would at least have the courtesy of exploding away into some hell vortex. But no, nada.

This is an awesomely funny take on the concept of the birth of the Anti Christ. A priest comes to know 2 days before Christmas that the Anti Christ will be born on the Christmas Day. It is the story of the two days when he searches for the devil on the streets of Madrid. Aiding him in this endeavor are a heavy metal fan and a fake clairvoyant who hosts TV show about the future. There are many ironic sequences like the search for the blood of a virgin. The scenes involving the family of the heavy metal fan are unbelievably hilarious. One of the few movies which I have seen recently where I was genuinely unhappy that the movie had to end because the experience was too freakin great. 4 out of 5 for this comic masterpiece from Spain. a must watch for the movie lovers who enjoy their foreign cinema.

being a horror films fan when i went through IMDb users good rating i thought this would be a good horror movie for sure , but believe me i would like to warn all the horror fans that if u r intending to download this movie u better kick ass ... its one of the most worst horror film / film in any way and all the way .the name el DI DE la ... gives a big kindaa impression but its a hell to watch this fu****g movie . it shows nothing according its name there is no such beast and even nothing at all....i don't understand why these morons gave huge high rating and good comments ? so its a total waste of time ....... i would like to rate - 0 / 10

This movie is definitively awful. I watched it on Easter evening in 2011, hoping to see a good movie, after I had seen films like L'Aldilà of Lucio Fulci, They live of John Carpenter and The Brood of Cronenberg, but all I found is a mix of a comic movie and horror elements. These, however, aren't in the typical style of "Splatters" or "Bad Taste" (by Peter Jackson), made up as comic and horror movies. I think this was a pathetic tentative of the author of making a good horror, after felt in the comicality. The first scene, as I saw in the commercial, showing a big crucifix falls on a priest, made me think about a good movie, but the crescendo was awful: Maria Grazia Cucinotta seems idiot, and the Italian magician is totally pathetic. In a second you can even see a picture of a young Berlusconi. Don't see it.