An unexpected pregnancy takes a terrifying turn for newlyweds Zach and Samantha McCall.
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A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
When a newly wed young couple accept an invitation to a club from a very suspicious looking taxi driver whilst on their honeymoon they fall prey to some unclear Satanic cult & she then becomes pregnant with the Devil's child. There's a lesson to be learned! This is basically a Rosemary's Baby clone but for the modern age. Filmed in the found footage style, a sub genre that has been frankly done to death, and although I felt that it wasn't entirely necessary for this movie they did at least do a reasonable job. Acting is good & there are a few decent special effects thrown in but on the downside it is fairly slow for most part, the shaky camera work does become annoying at times & plot wise it doesn't offer much.
This movie is apparently a rip-off of the iconic "Rosemary's Baby". Normally, I don't have prejudices with remakes or rip-offs, but some well-honored and acclaimed films leave no room for that and, when that happens, we quickly find that the new movie is so inferior to the first one that it doesn't justify its existence. It's more or less what happens here. The plot is almost the same: Zach and Samantha are a couple on their honeymoon. However, after a party where both get drunk, Samantha feels she is raped during a satanic cult. On waking, however, they thinks this was a dream, not feeling any mistrust when she becomes pregnant. This will change over the course of her pregnancy, as Samantha takes on a strange behavior. The plot brings little new when compared to the classic film that precedes it and it's clearly inferior in quality. It all seems unrealistic, far-fetched and absurd, which is criminal in a film that had low production budget but a huge budget for advertising. The actors' performance is mediocre. Allison Miller and Zach Gilford are the main actors and they certainly tried to do their best, but the truth is that the material they were given was too bad and they just ended up dropping their characters. Personally, I don't blame them, I blame the directors (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett) and screenwriter, Lindsay Devlin. The film spends most of its time focused on the changes of the pregnant girl, at a deliberately slow pace that would help create suspense if we didn't predict what would happen so easily, if the ending wasn't so uninteresting and if special effects weren't so basic.
Even a decade and a half after The Blair Witch Project was released, found footage films still plague our cinemas. What was once a nice niche to get away from the giant blockbusters, has slowly, but surely, become a virus to us all. That may be a bit harsh to a film like Devil's Due, but the whole genre in general needs a break.. and fast.**Warning, this review does contain spoilers** Watching these horror found footage films nowadays, especially Devil's Due, made me ponder what it would have been like in a nice short cut of 15 minutes in the V/H/S franchise. Clocking in at only an hour and 20, the film still finds ways to stretch. Instead of the wedding, why not start at the honeymoon? Instead of Zach (Zach Gilford) the good intentioned husband making his 4th call on the phone explaining his wife is acting strange, why not move the plot along? Instead of the first doctor, why not start with the creepy one? Yes, the second doctor is creepy, but that's also another problem. Subtly is not the films strong suit. Oh, the Priest is coughing, because he's near the demon baby. I see... And now Samantha (Allison Miller) is turning into Tetsuo from Akira? Because the Anti-Christ growing inside her just isn't interesting enough.Found footage also ruins everything that's happening always. The film does try to do different things, "mini chest cam" for one, but what person would see their pregnant wife in incredible pain or smashing the windows of a stranger's car and not drop the camera? And what 7 year old walks around in complete darkness with night vision? I get the spooky element everyone on set wants to make, but it's just puzzling and not well thought out. In this scene the girl is scared by Samantha, which could have been, again, subtly expressed in the next scene when she sees the girl again the next day at the church, but, they decided to go with the coughing priest instead. The cab driver from the beginning of the film in the church was a nice touch, but these are too few and far in between.Though the whole premise is found footage, the question begs, who found the footage. The cult seemingly takes everything, setting up Zach, so who's showing the footage? The Cult? Did they get their hands on the interrogation of Zach as well? Was one of the cops part of the cult? It sure was nice of them to edit the thing together though, for us all to learn about their Devil cult. Because in other found footage movies, the footage is usually found by someone other than the killer. Who, in retrospect, probably wouldn't turn it over to the public for viewing. A Demon in Paranormal Activity, after killing a family, wouldn't use Final Cut and say, "Hey everyone, look what I did." Maybe they would, Demon's are kind of jerks.The good is definitely Allison Miller. She works with what she has and runs away with it. I hope she has a future, because she's really the only redeemable thing to the film. Much better films are Rosemary's Baby, The Omen and even To the Devil a Daughter.
The devil's due,The title in itself is confusing. Watching this movie left me with so many unanswered questions. This point of view documentary was a good idea at first but it never really panned out. The POV caused me to get dizzy trying to follow the camera. Maybe that was by design for "special effects". The Devils Due, is about a fun loving family that gets married and then weird things starts to happen. This is an extremely suspenseful movie and a good watch for people that loves drama with a twist of heart pounding boredom.I give this move three stars because it reminded me a Carrie. However it did not meet my expectation . I gave Carrie 8 stars since it had a good story line and kept me wanting more. Carrie is a suspenseful movie about a woman with telekinetic powers and since I love Sci-FY special effect it was all the more better. This sacrilegious movies should have a story line to it and not leave with so many dumb unanswered questions. This will not sequel so I don't understand all the vague ambiguity in this movie.