Thursday, 16 January 2014

Film Review: Devil's Due

Genre:  Horror.   Warning this film contains extremely disturbing scene's

Cert: this was a 15, this should of been an 18 cert due to the level of extreme disturbing scene that was R-rated.

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: Brief scene of a woman take off a towel revealing a breast's  for a brief second not sen clear as camera was at a distance.

Violence & Gore: The are scene in this film that show extreme bloody gore moments they maybe disturbing some viewers, animal seen being cut open & eaten, priest nose starts to bleed extremely.

Profanity:  Few f words mild to strong language throw here & there

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: party scene where every one is drinking

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  Mostly towards the end of the film, there is a scene that is extremely disturbing moment that may upset & disturbing some viewers.. Very R-rated scene highly disturbing.




Story: After a mysterious, lost night on their honeymoon, a newlywed couple finds themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy. While recording everything for posterity, the husband begins to notice odd behavior in his wife that they initially write off to nerves, but, as the months pass, it becomes evident that the dark changes to her body and mind have a much more sinister origin.

Likes : From the trailer this film has promise, but fall short of being a brilliant horror film due to the subplot of the film which is very weak. The pace is a little to slow you start to feel yourself drift from the film.&
the acting is pretty well done to show a believable scene of a loving couple being happy together until all the strange things start happen some of it is extremely disturbing at time's.
Although this film isn't really scary as most horror film of this genre can be this is very disturbing  in a physiologically way , its one of those film that get in to you head but its not scary creep you out type of film although it has moment that make you jump at silly moments rather than horror moments.
  The movie takes place mostly in a nursery with only four characters there along with two hooded wardens. As such, there was a lot resting on the shoulders of these four, and ultimately they didn't really manage to pull it off. It wasn't because of their particular performance, but because the movie was suffering from a bad script and story line.
However, compared to the Japanese movie in the same genre, "Baby's Curse", & immortal classic, ROSEMARY'S BABY,  "Devil's Due" fared much better than these two film's.but these movies aren't particularly memorable or noteworthy, iver really. As said it start off pretty well but as i said the story is very weak in the direction of the film, i found the scene to be a little long for the film's story with the pace of the film its a big let down as it start to get predictable its nothing special that we haven't seen before & i think its this is why people are getting fed up with Found footage film's because there isn't anything surprising or hasn't been done before.
All in all its not a bad film but its not a great film, it just could have been better, not that the actor's done a good job, it failed due to the writers of the film giving it weak & poor story-line with not plot other than a anti-Christ being born.This is one film you should just wait for the DVD instead of wasting money at the cinema.

Dislikes : Like i said the story-line & sub plot of this film was so weak it had no direction from start to finish, the way it ended you don't get any closure as it just ending after a disturbing scene & we see another couple that it credit roles, it leave you think you want more & a better closure to the film.

Overall : Weak plot & story-line, dose have some disturbing scene but this should of been a straight to DVD film.

Rating: 3 out of 5 for entertainment / 5 out of 10 for story-line / horror




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