There's not a lot to say about this. It is similar to Rosemary's Baby. The acting was decent but there was a lot of shaky camera footage. The plot could have been more solid. I didn't think it was all that bad but I probably won't be seeing it again.
... View MoreThis 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.
... View MoreA mess of a film with totally unnecessary bookends. It's one in a long string of "found footage" films that doesn't add anything new to the genre, and falls below an even average, by-the-numbers example. It started out sort of intriguing, but it deteriorated quickly. There's lots of little weird scenes that don't seem to add much other than to show the "strangeness" of the child/Sam's behavior. For example, her penchant for eating raw meat - captured in a slightly funny supermarket scene, and later in an utterly pointless woods scene with some random characters who show up for no reason other than being killed off. Why would the Antichrist make someone eat raw meat? He's fighting back against all the vegetarians? This is just one example of many pointless scenes/tropes.The end (last 30 minutes or so) was what really killed the movie for me. Although it's filled with decent effects as others have noted, it's basically 30 minutes of Zach running around shouting, "Sam! Sam! No, Sam!" and shlt flying around. Killed any slight enjoyment I had. I loved the directors' "10/31/1998" segment in the original V/H/S (in fact, maybe my favorite segment of that movie), which bears some similarities to this film, but this fails to have the twists or originality that "10/31/1998" had.
... View MoreThe 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.
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