And in the end there is something interesting, we find who the bad guy is, he suddenly appears and starts explaining things to the main character. Not if you count actors with a lot of red die on them showed for fractions of a second scary. Horror-like because there is no horror in the entire film. The script is average, with the usual inconsistencies we now expect from a teenage audience horror-like movie. I can't say than any of the actors played bad, but since all of the characters where cliché they didn't really need to make an effort.
#Devour movie movie#
Take a dot.com movie (good looking youngsters barely leaving the teen age using computers), add a bit of Devil for spice, shake it a bit (with shaky text like in se7en, but none of the subtlety) and drop a small bit of The Game and you get Devour. I'll be very surprised if your reaction is any different. The first half got me interested, the second half lost me. It is a fairly well made movie for direct-to-video but that's no excuse to cut it some slack. Devour could have been really good and pulls you in for the first 30 minutes or so, but due to poor character backgrounds, a confusing story and the constant switch between horror and drama, it really is hard to make it worth your 90 minutes of viewing time. The best chance you'll have to get a decent view is near the end but like I said, you may be battling your eyes once you get there. The devil / creature in the movie is similar to a cross between an alien (from the Alien movies) and Djinn (from the Wishmaster movies) but never talks and the screen is always shaken or blurred when you see the creature so you don't really get a good look. "The devil using the internet? What the hell?" Yeah, I know. Though, once you've sat through the first hour of the movie and it all starts to become un-interesting, you won't really care before you get to see the twist. The problem with this movie is that it decides to put such a huge twist (a twist that is too complex for its own good) into the mix that really leaves you confused at the end. You then get phone calls asking you to do certain things, similar to sacrificing animals to your god. Basically, the devil communicates to others via the internet through an online game called "The Pathway" in which you give the site your phone number and apparently it can bring up your whole life's history. The story behind this film is interesting yet executed in a fairly poor manner. It's the type of set-up that gets you thinking "Oh god, this is going to be lousy and look really cheap!" but alas the first half of the movie is the most entertaining. It starts off right away with the opening credits which plugs a fairly dire heavy rock / metal song in the background. After reading the plot outline and the cool cover art, I decided to give it a go. The movie revolves around a character named Jake Gray and his friends that have been playing a deadly game called "The Pathway", which eventually spirals out of control and threatens a worldwide epidemic of violence.
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