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Samantha and Zach get married. For their honeymoon, they went to visit the Dominican Republic. One night there, they were brought by their taxi driver to a mysterious place where they get drunk and drugged. Nevertheless, they still managed to get back home safe and sound.
Not long after, Samantha finds out she was with child. From there, the further along the pregnancy Samantha got, the more bizarre and more violent behavior she would display. As she nears her due date, can Zach still do anything to avert the diabolical fate that seems to await his wife and baby?
Like many current horror films, "Devil's Due" is told through camera footage. Aside from the cameras Zach and characters carried around, there was also footage from security cameras. The first thirty minutes were practically just needless wedding coverage.
When it got around to telling the story, the pace was also quite slow. Mundane daily events like going to the supermarket or the obstetrician were punctuated by some disgusting or violent scenes which would have been a big deal had it happened in real life. Here, they happened, but there seemed to have been no consequences that follow their occurrence.
The best moments of this film were those scenes showing Samantha's repulsive eating habits, her super-telekinetic powers, and her effect on Catholic priests. The rest of the film was unfortunately forgettable, all the way up to the predictable climax. 3/10.
Not long after, Samantha finds out she was with child. From there, the further along the pregnancy Samantha got, the more bizarre and more violent behavior she would display. As she nears her due date, can Zach still do anything to avert the diabolical fate that seems to await his wife and baby?
Like many current horror films, "Devil's Due" is told through camera footage. Aside from the cameras Zach and characters carried around, there was also footage from security cameras. The first thirty minutes were practically just needless wedding coverage.
When it got around to telling the story, the pace was also quite slow. Mundane daily events like going to the supermarket or the obstetrician were punctuated by some disgusting or violent scenes which would have been a big deal had it happened in real life. Here, they happened, but there seemed to have been no consequences that follow their occurrence.
The best moments of this film were those scenes showing Samantha's repulsive eating habits, her super-telekinetic powers, and her effect on Catholic priests. The rest of the film was unfortunately forgettable, all the way up to the predictable climax. 3/10.
First of all, I am a big fan of the found footage supernatural/horror genre and love watching even the lesser acclaimed films. I am the type of viewer that draws the positives out of a very flawed film and enjoy it. So I expected to enjoy something out of this at the very least.
My god, what a tediously insufferable film this turned out to be.
There is absolutely no innovation or any attempt to try something new. It is so painfully boring.
The concept idea was very promising which is basically a found footage rendition of The Omen or Rosemary's baby. However, this film is so dire at engaging the audience due to the most irritable protagonist I have ever seen so far in a found footage type movie. For more than half of the movie, we are tortured with the sickly saccharine antics of a doting husband on his newly wed wife. There is no natural humour to ease the torment and worse for a film of this type, there were actually no scares until the last act.
As I said, I am the type of film goer that draws the positives and try enjoy that. So are there any? Well, there is a dog that was amusing for 2 seconds but even he looked bored, thereafter. OK, there is a bit more positives. You do get a predictable climax in an attempt to "reward " us for our eternal patience which was efficiently executed but without any unique vision or flair, just the usual creep around corridors and..."boo" oh it was just the dog sort of thing. The actors do perform well but the material they have to work with is revolting.
At the end of the credits there is a piece of text explaining that this film created 200,000 jobs. Well that was nice to know and the only bit that made me feel good knowing that at least it gave a lot of people work but then I wonder if stating that was an indirect apology and their justification to make this dreadfully boring movie?
TO be fair, the film is as polished as it can be for a found footage genre but its all pointless if it fails to engage us in the narrative.
If you haven't seen many horror films or supernatural films such as Paranormal Activity etc, then perhaps you might enjoy this more as long as you can stomach the vomit inducing newly weds for half of the movie.
I give this a 3/10 rating, mostly for the dog that looked fairly convincing in not wanting to be in the movie. Get a new agent doggy, you deserve better.
My god, what a tediously insufferable film this turned out to be.
There is absolutely no innovation or any attempt to try something new. It is so painfully boring.
The concept idea was very promising which is basically a found footage rendition of The Omen or Rosemary's baby. However, this film is so dire at engaging the audience due to the most irritable protagonist I have ever seen so far in a found footage type movie. For more than half of the movie, we are tortured with the sickly saccharine antics of a doting husband on his newly wed wife. There is no natural humour to ease the torment and worse for a film of this type, there were actually no scares until the last act.
As I said, I am the type of film goer that draws the positives and try enjoy that. So are there any? Well, there is a dog that was amusing for 2 seconds but even he looked bored, thereafter. OK, there is a bit more positives. You do get a predictable climax in an attempt to "reward " us for our eternal patience which was efficiently executed but without any unique vision or flair, just the usual creep around corridors and..."boo" oh it was just the dog sort of thing. The actors do perform well but the material they have to work with is revolting.
At the end of the credits there is a piece of text explaining that this film created 200,000 jobs. Well that was nice to know and the only bit that made me feel good knowing that at least it gave a lot of people work but then I wonder if stating that was an indirect apology and their justification to make this dreadfully boring movie?
TO be fair, the film is as polished as it can be for a found footage genre but its all pointless if it fails to engage us in the narrative.
If you haven't seen many horror films or supernatural films such as Paranormal Activity etc, then perhaps you might enjoy this more as long as you can stomach the vomit inducing newly weds for half of the movie.
I give this a 3/10 rating, mostly for the dog that looked fairly convincing in not wanting to be in the movie. Get a new agent doggy, you deserve better.
- theycallmemrglass
- Jan 15, 2014
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1st watched 1/18/2014 – 4 out of 10(Dir:Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillet): Eerie story about a wife's possession by the Devil to attempt to produce one of his own thru her. The movie is filmed entirely in first person similar to the Blair Witch Project but more like Cloverfield --- but unfortunately the point of view changes which makes it kind of confusing. It starts as a newlywed couple vacation on their honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. Nothing is really revealed abnormal about the couple except that the wife is a foster child with a supposed past hard life. They are having a typical good time, but then decide to take a detour to an underground party after being coaxed by a local taxi driver. After they get a little too toasted we see a brief glimpse of some footage at a strange religious ceremony, but then are taken back to footage of them arriving from their vacation back into their new home. We find out later that ceremony has much to do about what happens next. The wife becomes pregnant despite being on the pill, and immediately starts suspecting that there are problems with the baby. She then starts doing strange things like eating raw meat at a grocery store(despite being a vegetarian), causing preachers to cough up blood, and taking night walks into the wild to kill deer and munch of their innards
so naturally the husband starts questioning something awry is going on
.you think?? The movie is scary at times but because it is so predictable you just wait for the eerie things to happen(and they do). There is eventually a story told here that makes some sense as to why things happened but there are a lot of holes to it as well. I will leave out a lot of the specifics just in case you want to watch this movie about an antichrist possession
.i'm not sure why I wanted to watch it myself
I think I was just challenging myself
but overall this is just not that great of a movie, and the creepy feeling only lasted for a short while after the movie was over.
The orphan Samantha (Allison Miller) gets married with Zach McCall (Zach Gilford) and they travel in honeymoon to Santo Domingo. In their last night in the Dominican Republic, the newlywed couple is invited by a taxi driver to go to a party in the outskirts of Santo Domingo. They drink too much and do not see that Sam is brought to a weird cult. They return to the United States and soon Sam discovers that she is pregnant. Along the pregnancy, Sam changes her behavior and becomes nervous and aggressive. On the night of the delivery, Zach witnesses weird events at home.
"Devil's Due" is a lame and cheap movie that uses the same storyline of "Rosemary's Baby". This rip-off could have the title "How to Destroy the Storyline of a Masterpiece with a Hand-held Camera and an Absurd Plot". Sam and Zach accepting to go to a slum in an unknown country with a stranger are among the greatest stupidities of the cinema industry. The new doctor uses the office of Dr. J. Ludka and no receptionist or nurse notices. The house of Sam and Zach is completely destroyed in a calm neighborhood and no neighbor observes. The use of camera as if it were Zach is nonsense in most of the situations. My vote is two.
Title (Brazil): "O Herdeiro do Diabo" ("Devil's Due")
"Devil's Due" is a lame and cheap movie that uses the same storyline of "Rosemary's Baby". This rip-off could have the title "How to Destroy the Storyline of a Masterpiece with a Hand-held Camera and an Absurd Plot". Sam and Zach accepting to go to a slum in an unknown country with a stranger are among the greatest stupidities of the cinema industry. The new doctor uses the office of Dr. J. Ludka and no receptionist or nurse notices. The house of Sam and Zach is completely destroyed in a calm neighborhood and no neighbor observes. The use of camera as if it were Zach is nonsense in most of the situations. My vote is two.
Title (Brazil): "O Herdeiro do Diabo" ("Devil's Due")
- claudio_carvalho
- May 11, 2014
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Absolute Dogsh*t is a term that cannot be used enough to describe this movie. I hated the characters (especially the tw*t of a husband), the stupid shaky-cam, the "scares", the pathetic sub-plot of an ancient cult, the trailer that gave away absolutely everything, and did I mention the tw*t of a husband? No doubt there'll be a sequel, and another, and another. Remember when there were actually good horror found-footage films? Me neither. Hollywood is just saturated with them, none of them good. A complete and terrible rip-off of Rosemary's Baby. Just don't watch it. If I could give it a minus rating I would. Definitely in the category of one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
- conchur-mackey
- Jan 18, 2014
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- vengeance20
- Jan 15, 2014
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This was really deceptive marketing and hype that drew me into this movie. I am very sorry I went. The acting, directing, production design, continuity, editing and of course the story, screen writing and execution were just abysmal. There was nothing of quality in this film. The characters were stupid, the camera work was jarring "handheld reality TV" nonsense and on top of it all, the plot was told in a far superior manner by Roman Polanski in "Rosemary's Baby" forty years ago! It just shows that with some production money, a digital camera and some reality-TV "Blair Witch"/"Paranormal Activity"-type marketing approach, you can sell any kind of garbage to the American public. I urge you not to support this film, or any future endeavours of anyone involved with this project (cast, crew, director or screenwriters)....
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- ivaylo-pif
- Apr 30, 2014
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'DEVIL'S DUE': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five)
Another low-budget supernatural horror 'found footage' flick. The story is about a recently wed woman who unexpectedly becomes pregnant, with the Antichrist. It's an homage to the classic Roman Polanski thriller 'ROSEMARY'S BABY' but it's presented in a style that's a lot more similar to the 'PARANORMAL ACTIVITY' franchise. It was written by Lindsay Devlin (who's only other film writing credit is the 2013 documentary 'IN SO MANY WORDS') and directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are part of a collective filmmakers group called 'Radio Silence'; they previously co-directed, co-wrote and co-starred in a segment of the 2012 'found footage' horror anthology 'V/H/S'. I think the filmmaking duo did an exceptional job on this (their debut feature film) and found it to be much better than a lot of critics (and 'found footage' movie haters) have made it out to be.
The story revolves around a newly wed couple, named Samantha and Zach McCall (played by Allison Miller and Zach Gilford), that go on their honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. After Samantha gets a weird reading from a fortune teller the two are led to a remote bar (outside the city) by a persistent cab driver (Roger Payano). They both get wasted (on shots) and pass out. It then appears that Samantha is taken to a room, beneath the club, where some kind of ritual is performed on her. When they return home they find out she's pregnant, despite the fact that Samantha has always regularly taken her birth control pills. The two decide to keep the child and then things really get strange. It's of course all caught on video and compiled (from many different sources) for the viewer.
The film (like I said) got mostly bad reviews from critics and horror fans (that hate the 'found footage' genre). It did get a few good reviews (though) from some scary movie aficionados (like director Eli Roth and the popular horror website 'Bloody Disgusting'). I enjoyed the movie; I love the horror genre and like 'found footage' flicks, when they're done right. I think this one was done right; it's scary, funny and just a lot of fun to watch. The rookie directors did a great job and the script is smart and clever as well. The two leads were also adequate enough (for a film like this); the lead woman is very beautiful too and the lead guy reminds me a lot of a political radio and internet talk show host (I watch) named David Pakman. It's just an all around good fright flick, especially if you like the genre. Ignore the haters!
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Another low-budget supernatural horror 'found footage' flick. The story is about a recently wed woman who unexpectedly becomes pregnant, with the Antichrist. It's an homage to the classic Roman Polanski thriller 'ROSEMARY'S BABY' but it's presented in a style that's a lot more similar to the 'PARANORMAL ACTIVITY' franchise. It was written by Lindsay Devlin (who's only other film writing credit is the 2013 documentary 'IN SO MANY WORDS') and directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are part of a collective filmmakers group called 'Radio Silence'; they previously co-directed, co-wrote and co-starred in a segment of the 2012 'found footage' horror anthology 'V/H/S'. I think the filmmaking duo did an exceptional job on this (their debut feature film) and found it to be much better than a lot of critics (and 'found footage' movie haters) have made it out to be.
The story revolves around a newly wed couple, named Samantha and Zach McCall (played by Allison Miller and Zach Gilford), that go on their honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. After Samantha gets a weird reading from a fortune teller the two are led to a remote bar (outside the city) by a persistent cab driver (Roger Payano). They both get wasted (on shots) and pass out. It then appears that Samantha is taken to a room, beneath the club, where some kind of ritual is performed on her. When they return home they find out she's pregnant, despite the fact that Samantha has always regularly taken her birth control pills. The two decide to keep the child and then things really get strange. It's of course all caught on video and compiled (from many different sources) for the viewer.
The film (like I said) got mostly bad reviews from critics and horror fans (that hate the 'found footage' genre). It did get a few good reviews (though) from some scary movie aficionados (like director Eli Roth and the popular horror website 'Bloody Disgusting'). I enjoyed the movie; I love the horror genre and like 'found footage' flicks, when they're done right. I think this one was done right; it's scary, funny and just a lot of fun to watch. The rookie directors did a great job and the script is smart and clever as well. The two leads were also adequate enough (for a film like this); the lead woman is very beautiful too and the lead guy reminds me a lot of a political radio and internet talk show host (I watch) named David Pakman. It's just an all around good fright flick, especially if you like the genre. Ignore the haters!
Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKhLjf_1MKw
- chris_rowe-881-168820
- Jan 16, 2014
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- krista-shaprio
- Feb 2, 2014
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- drownsoda90
- Jan 21, 2014
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The "actors" act like they'd fit better in a commercial than in yet another bad horror movie. The only parts that made me feel anything else other than boredom just made me want to cringe. And a GOOD horror movie should make me care about what's going on but, Devil's Douche doesn't do that. The husband is dumb, and everything feels contrived. Speaking of contrived, I hate how whenever a "horror" movie does a set up in a foreign country in this case a very brief set up in the Dominican Republic. Everyone is either a money hungary/killer or in a violent/satanic cult. This movie is as lame as Unfriended so don't bother with this trash
- mdanielle-94261
- Oct 22, 2015
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This is a Rosemarys baby knock off, with some deviation from the basic "Devil gets a woman pregnant" story. It gets off to an extremely slow start, and doesn't really get interesting until roughly the middle. There are some effective scares and visual effects, but the story starts to get bogged down, and then gets buried by the horror scenes. These are horrific and bloody enough, but I wished they stayed more with the characters.
The actors were pretty good and did ok with what they were given to work with. Perhaps better directing would have helped. This movie might be worth a watch if you can't find anything better. The moral of the story is get out of the taxi if the driver offers to take you to a fun place.
The actors were pretty good and did ok with what they were given to work with. Perhaps better directing would have helped. This movie might be worth a watch if you can't find anything better. The moral of the story is get out of the taxi if the driver offers to take you to a fun place.
- elhonig-902-129896
- Dec 27, 2022
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It starts of well , then becomes bizarre . It's shots of different scenes that are clumped together in a desperate attempt to create a movie. Pretty sad and pathetic . I've watched horror movies where I've laughed but this is the first one that I've actually kept nodding off to. It was THAT boring !
Watch at your peril if you must , but you have been warned .
- honeybloggs-69648
- Jul 20, 2019
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First off, this movie is total garbage.
Acting: The female, Allison Miller is not a great actress but she is better than Zack Gilford. How does he have a job? Allison Miller was okay, but Zack Gilford is cheesy, and is not believable. Acting I would give a 2 out of 10.
PLOT: Couple gets married, storybook wedding, go on honeymoon, get drunk, blackout, get kidnapped in Santa Domingo, and then get pregnant with Satans child. Cliché to say the least. I am not a religious person. You do not need religion to be a good person, if you do then you are a shallow person. I don't need religion to know right from wrong, I know right from wrong because I am human and I use my brain. TO get that out of the way, this movie tries to bank off superstitious religious zealots. It tries to push that "God vs Satan" theme in your face, with a mix of exorcism and poltergeist, hoping the overly religious people watch this movie thinking oh boy I better pray more, oh boy I better fast, oh boy I better read scripture more - NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! Just because YOU ARE NOT RELIGIOUS DOES NOT MEAN YOU WILL GIVE BIRTH TO SATAN'S CHILD!!! IF YOU BELIEVE THAT THEN YOU ARE STUPID!! So PLot Gets 0 out 10
Found Footage: Hasn't this been done before? Like a million times... and do they ever get good ratings or done right? NO! Found Footage has become a cliché, and they are so overdone and completely stupid When is Hollywood going to realize found footage DOES NOT WORK! We want actual cinematography, we want good camera footage and not shaky like someone is following around some actors with a camera, so Found Footage is bad, every single movie, however, this one is even worse than the normal Found Footage garbage. So once again 0 out of 10
Conclusion: Do not waste your time with this one. An Adam Sandler movie might be a better fit, and thats not saying a lot.
If you are in the mood for a horror movie then you are better off watching a classic horror movie like Steven King or something.
THIS MOVIE SUCKS!!!!!
YOU ARE BETTER OFF SCRATCHING OUT YOUR EYEBALLS!!
WORSE MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!
AVOID AVOID AVOID!! ALMOST AS SCARY AS KIRK CAMERON SAVES Christmas MOVIE!!!!! (Maybe not that bad, but pretty close!!!)
Watch something that is educational or intelligently done, this movie is neither!!!
I Don't PRAY SO IM GONNA HAVE SATAN'S BABY!!!!
STUPID!!!
Acting: The female, Allison Miller is not a great actress but she is better than Zack Gilford. How does he have a job? Allison Miller was okay, but Zack Gilford is cheesy, and is not believable. Acting I would give a 2 out of 10.
PLOT: Couple gets married, storybook wedding, go on honeymoon, get drunk, blackout, get kidnapped in Santa Domingo, and then get pregnant with Satans child. Cliché to say the least. I am not a religious person. You do not need religion to be a good person, if you do then you are a shallow person. I don't need religion to know right from wrong, I know right from wrong because I am human and I use my brain. TO get that out of the way, this movie tries to bank off superstitious religious zealots. It tries to push that "God vs Satan" theme in your face, with a mix of exorcism and poltergeist, hoping the overly religious people watch this movie thinking oh boy I better pray more, oh boy I better fast, oh boy I better read scripture more - NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! Just because YOU ARE NOT RELIGIOUS DOES NOT MEAN YOU WILL GIVE BIRTH TO SATAN'S CHILD!!! IF YOU BELIEVE THAT THEN YOU ARE STUPID!! So PLot Gets 0 out 10
Found Footage: Hasn't this been done before? Like a million times... and do they ever get good ratings or done right? NO! Found Footage has become a cliché, and they are so overdone and completely stupid When is Hollywood going to realize found footage DOES NOT WORK! We want actual cinematography, we want good camera footage and not shaky like someone is following around some actors with a camera, so Found Footage is bad, every single movie, however, this one is even worse than the normal Found Footage garbage. So once again 0 out of 10
Conclusion: Do not waste your time with this one. An Adam Sandler movie might be a better fit, and thats not saying a lot.
If you are in the mood for a horror movie then you are better off watching a classic horror movie like Steven King or something.
THIS MOVIE SUCKS!!!!!
YOU ARE BETTER OFF SCRATCHING OUT YOUR EYEBALLS!!
WORSE MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!
AVOID AVOID AVOID!! ALMOST AS SCARY AS KIRK CAMERON SAVES Christmas MOVIE!!!!! (Maybe not that bad, but pretty close!!!)
Watch something that is educational or intelligently done, this movie is neither!!!
I Don't PRAY SO IM GONNA HAVE SATAN'S BABY!!!!
STUPID!!!
- benko916-505-876441
- Dec 19, 2015
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wasting time open ending bad cameras view , awful plot worst movie i have ever seen in my life , when you bye a horror movie it should have a nice ending but not real ending if there is a new chapter or if the horror thing in it didn't vanish in this movie it will never end we don't know why or how or what is the problem in the first place the , and the father bad place in the movie seriously killing like he cant even try to fight bad , where is the good and bad in the movie where is the two strong thing fighting each other the one man is weak and nobody helped why the sister died why he didn't feel scary when he watched what happened to his wife he didn't even try to help here or finding out whats wrong with here he just felt crazy , and the drunk can feel a bit it should be more reality thank you for using zain
"Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming." While on their honeymoon Samantha (Miller) and Zach (Gilford) decide to go out clubbing and end up drinking more then planned and some of their trip is fuzzy. When they return home they are both surprised and excited when they find out Samantha is pregnant. What starts off as something happy begins to change when Samantha begins to act strangely. As I have said many times I try to watch as many movies as I can without seeing the previews first. I did that with this one and was very disappointed when I found out it was another found footage movie. That type of horror movie worked with the Blair Witch Project because it was new and everyone thought that it was real. To a lesser extent it also worked for the first Paranormal Activity because again at that time it was still new. Now that every other horror comes like this the "realism" is lost and just becomes more annoying then anything. Found footage aside there are many other problems with the movie. The first 20 minutes feels like someone forcing you to watch their bad home movies. It never really gets much more exciting then that. On a side note the movie Hell Baby which was a comedic version of this subject was much better then this one. Overall, yet another found footage horror movie that wasn't scary. It's almost time for this genre to stop. I give this a C.
- cosmo_tiger
- Mar 27, 2014
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- caseymoviemania
- Jan 13, 2014
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I can not explain how bad this movie is. You call this a horror film? I have never been so disappointed in my life. The movie had no story. It was not even scary. I sat throughout the whole movie thinking something is going to happen, but no. I spent the whole time in suspense, hoping something will happen. This movie is a complete knock off of Paranormal Activity. I will not recommend this movie to anyone. I think one star is a compliment for this film. I want my time back that I wasted watching it. The whole film was predictable. Nothing exciting. I was so mad when the film was over. This movie is a disgrace to all horror films.... no hold up, This film is a disgrace to the whole film industry. Please, do not watch this film. You will just waste your time and money. Don't say I didn't warn you!!
- g-sandhar84
- Apr 23, 2014
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On the last day of holiday, happy honeymooners Samantha (Allison Miller) and Zach's (Zach Gilford) life, takes an unexpected course when a spontaneous decision to experience one last night of Caribbean life, goes wrong.
After their taxi driver vehemently coerces the couple to attend an underground party, they are lead to a mysterious location. They pull up at the venue, where the possibility of a party seems far-fetched and even the faintest sound of music is undetectable. When Samantha gets nervous and decides to change her mind we feel a sense of fear and anticipation for what might happen. The storyline alludes to the possibility that the driver has other intentions, however tucked away in the most unlikeliest venue is a live and vibrant rave. The couple relax and party the night away, however, the plot thickens.
When the Samantha and Zach get so drunk that they lose track of their belongings, the camera cuts away to reveal clips of muffled voices, a religious cult and what seems to be Samantha on a sacrificial altar.
The next morning they both wake up in their hotel room, with a hangover which they put down to their wild night out.
They suspect no foul play. Shortly after returning home, despite being on the pill, Samantha announces that she is pregnant. We begin to watch her becoming increasingly hostile and strange things begin to happen.
I watched this movie with no expectations and I was pleasantly surprised. Zach Mcall journals their life using a homemade video camera, the majority of the film is shot from the first person. The movie looks low budget, as though executed by amateur producers, which is the point. Only after, did I discover that the movie actually had a $7,000,000 budget, and was produced by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. The natural, unforced acting, was so realistic and effective that it will make you question every reality television show that you have ever watched.
Devils Due is a peek at what a horror should be. It was atmospheric without the need to jump us. Frightening without cheap scares. Spooky, without the use of excessive sound effects. It was well paced with a flawless storyline. The movie was unhurried and builds a rapport between the viewer and the characters. We get to meet their inner social circle and we learn about the characters background. This window seat glimpse into Samantha and Zach's life allows us to feel a connection with both characters and we are won over by Zach's charm and Samantha's innocence. We are drawn in by the subsequent changes in Samantha's personality. This is why the film works so well because we witness the nightmarish languish of this sweet and loved up couple.
Many people will argue that the storyline was not original and whilst I agree there were many parallels between The Last Exorcism, The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, by taking what was lacking in similar movies, Devils Due has put its own unique stamp on this reality horror genre.
I was only slightly disappointed by the ending as there was a lot of build up for a pretty predictable ending, but overall I was still impressed. This film does not feel the need to rely on gore and sound effects to win the audience over, just good old-fashioned creativity. All in all Devils Due was kept me on edge the whole way through and is well worth a watch.
After their taxi driver vehemently coerces the couple to attend an underground party, they are lead to a mysterious location. They pull up at the venue, where the possibility of a party seems far-fetched and even the faintest sound of music is undetectable. When Samantha gets nervous and decides to change her mind we feel a sense of fear and anticipation for what might happen. The storyline alludes to the possibility that the driver has other intentions, however tucked away in the most unlikeliest venue is a live and vibrant rave. The couple relax and party the night away, however, the plot thickens.
When the Samantha and Zach get so drunk that they lose track of their belongings, the camera cuts away to reveal clips of muffled voices, a religious cult and what seems to be Samantha on a sacrificial altar.
The next morning they both wake up in their hotel room, with a hangover which they put down to their wild night out.
They suspect no foul play. Shortly after returning home, despite being on the pill, Samantha announces that she is pregnant. We begin to watch her becoming increasingly hostile and strange things begin to happen.
I watched this movie with no expectations and I was pleasantly surprised. Zach Mcall journals their life using a homemade video camera, the majority of the film is shot from the first person. The movie looks low budget, as though executed by amateur producers, which is the point. Only after, did I discover that the movie actually had a $7,000,000 budget, and was produced by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. The natural, unforced acting, was so realistic and effective that it will make you question every reality television show that you have ever watched.
Devils Due is a peek at what a horror should be. It was atmospheric without the need to jump us. Frightening without cheap scares. Spooky, without the use of excessive sound effects. It was well paced with a flawless storyline. The movie was unhurried and builds a rapport between the viewer and the characters. We get to meet their inner social circle and we learn about the characters background. This window seat glimpse into Samantha and Zach's life allows us to feel a connection with both characters and we are won over by Zach's charm and Samantha's innocence. We are drawn in by the subsequent changes in Samantha's personality. This is why the film works so well because we witness the nightmarish languish of this sweet and loved up couple.
Many people will argue that the storyline was not original and whilst I agree there were many parallels between The Last Exorcism, The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, by taking what was lacking in similar movies, Devils Due has put its own unique stamp on this reality horror genre.
I was only slightly disappointed by the ending as there was a lot of build up for a pretty predictable ending, but overall I was still impressed. This film does not feel the need to rely on gore and sound effects to win the audience over, just good old-fashioned creativity. All in all Devils Due was kept me on edge the whole way through and is well worth a watch.
- ClaireDaley-Won
- May 10, 2014
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- Robert_duder
- Apr 26, 2014
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This movie is simply TRASH! Honestly whoever gave more that 3 stars, have really big problems... those that gave 9 and 10 stars, they are simply brain dead. This movie was very trash, bad filming, bad acting, bad scripting/writing, bad EVERYTHING. Nothing horror, no mystery ... just a was of time. There's a 0.000000000000001 chance that you'll like it tho, soo watch on your own risk.
- ZeroCoolRO
- Dec 28, 2021
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