After moving in with her grandmother, a teen's obsession with a teacher at her new school starts to border on the obsessive until it soon appears to everyone that she may be involved in the rapidly-growing body count around him.There isn't a whole lot going on for this one to really make much of an impact in what's going on and it really tends to drag on in the beginning when there's no body count to speak of and it really only has McGowan walking around in halter-tops and other revealing attire to provide any interest. Even several sex scenes can't mask the fact that this one doesn't have much of anything going on in this half, as they're not that erotic or sexual and just tend to make the film's slow opening all the more irritating. This is also due to the fact that the lame detective investigation angle just ends up going nowhere and appears to be there to pad out time, illustrated with the pointless-but-nonetheless-humorous approach of their quizzing each other about various mental diseases does make up somewhat for their lack of interest. The other big problems here are the constant and utterly banal religious arguments that frequently come to a head because of the two characters, which aren't that interesting and just tend to get old very fast, as well as the sheer lack of nudity from the main cast-member despite there being two distinct moments where that could've been accomplished with relative ease, especially with its overall feel of an Erotic Thriller made all the more sense. There's some decent deaths in the last half that provide some gore, but overall it's too little too late to save it.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Graphic Language, some Sexual Situations and a Rape scene

Hard to believe so many liked this awful flick. Plot was usual stalker stuff, no surprise there. Stalker being an unattractive teeny bop-per who chases her teacher, a typical LMN leading man that is clueless to all around him. Sir, this bimbo is killing people all around you. This is so unreal as to believability. People missing and two detectives are going around trying to trace a fire years back. One by one this homely bitch does away with her competition. Won't tell you who although I'm tempted just so you won't have to sit through this trivial.Doesn't the neighbor realize their son is missing? That no one sees the grandmother around, etc, etc. Rose McGowan was dreadful and far from attractive for this viewer to believe anyone would want her even for a conversation. Dressed to the nines in short skirts and bras, she's supposed to be a turn on to the guys. Doesn't seem to do her much good. Alex McArthur as the teacher unfortunately had to deal with a stupid plot and equally stupid actress. J C Brandy as his girl friend did much better and brought some reality to force. Peg Shirley as the grandmother was so overacted you had to laugh at her. All others were lost in a losing movie with a loser playing the leading lady. Forget it.

Been down this variable path (with 'Poison Ivy' and 'The Crush') plenty of times before and the pulpy straight-to-video effort 'Devil in the Flesh' lacks its own vision to set itself from this over-cooked femme fatal genre. The shiny red apple for the teacher was only the beginning for what was about to come. Think of the Police's song "Don't stand so close to me", but with this story the affection isn't shared. Its school girl after teacher, but teacher has his eyes only on his girlfriend. He seems oblivious to the advancements, or just shakes them off. It's disposable entertainment that's largely saved by an intoxicatedly cunning vixen performance by the voluptuous Rose McGowen. You can't go wrong with McGowen. She's delectable… even in an unstable frame of mind! Actually she's too good for such second-rate material. Starring opposite of her is a solidly likable Alex McArthur as the object of her obsession; Mr. Rinaldi the English teacher. He presents a believable performance that doesn't really aggravate or get you criticizing his actions. However I can't say the same about some unthinkable plot developments. Unconvincing is an understatement. It's simply plotted, but its brief format doesn't feel structured and unevenly tries to balance too much (quite quickly) by the end. The back of my video case insists "… delivers non-stop thrills." I don't think so. The direction is automatically sourced and suspense is poor with only the confrontations with an excellent Peg Shirley as the religiously heavy-handed grandmother and McGowen's Debbie as the only real sparks. Underneath the surface is a coldness and a nasty side, but it never takes a risk on it. The music score is better, as it's expressively understated, but rich to the lurking sensual flair and ominous charges waiting to open up. It paints it well enough in the moodily haunting opening credits. A so-so thriller.

If you've seen more than a handful of thrillers, you will almost certainly have seen this plot line before; it's just the basic stalker theme only set in a school. This idea has been used in many movies previously, and was also the main theme in the excellent 'Wild Things' that was also released in 1998. Devil in the Flesh is a very low key film and actually feels like a TV movie at times; yet despite this, it does at least manage to stay entertaining enough for it's ninety minute duration, which is quite an achievement when you consider how unoriginal it is. The plot focuses on a young girl named Debbie Strand. After her parent's house burns down in mysterious circumstances, she is sent to live in a different town with her religious grandmother. She also has to start a new school and gets that same locker every new girl in American school gets (the sticky one that needs a man to come over and punch it). Anyway, it's not long before she starts to develop a crush on hunky English teacher Mr Rinaldi, and she'll stop at nothing to get what she wants.I have to admit that I have a track record of enjoying low key thrillers like this one, and for what it's worth; Devil in the Flesh is not too bad. It does suffer from a poor script that fails to flesh out it's central characters properly and doesn't contribute a logical narrative, so at times the film just seems to jump from one thing to next without a lot of cohesion. There's also a fair few clichés on display too, which is somewhat annoying and tiresome. On the plus side, the acting is rather good. Rose McGowan was one of my main reason for tuning in and she does the bitchy weird chick thing very well. Starring opposite is Alex McArthur as her crush who also performs well in his role as well as well as Peg Shirley as the overbearing grandmother. The plot moves along at a steady pace for the first half and gets going properly in the second, albeit a bit too fast at times. There's a twist towards the end which is both highly predictable and very unbelievable. Overall, this is a long way from brilliant; but it has a few good elements and there's worse films of this ilk out there.