THE DEVIL'S MUSIC is a lamentable British indie that plays out as a mockumentary with dark overtones. It's presented as the video diary of a groupie who follows a controversial female singer around as she goes on tour, and eventually some mildly dark things happen to them both. Don't watch this expecting horror content, because it's merely a series of close-up conversations and as such is entirely dull and lacking in merit.

The film is done documentary style. It follows the life of Erika Spawn/Angela Lee (Victoria Hopkins) and her groupie Stef Regan (Lucy Dunn) who doesn't "like the present." The film starts out slow as we see the no talent lip syncing Erika (it was Ashlee Simpson bad) shock rocker being adored by shy timid Stef. The film is mostly people talking about them. They describe Erika's antics and the low budget omits key points in her life such as the awards ceremony where they were snubbed. Could have been a great scene. As it was, it was a written line on the screen. Part of the film also features Adele (Jess-Luisa Flynn) their bass player, at times the overly excited voice of reason. Once "the event" of the film happens, the story begins weave into something interesting bringing together the clues laid out earlier.The problem I had with the film was that it took too long to get interesting. Lucy Dunn was great, however Victoria Hopkins was clearly a miscast and has done better since. Jess-Luisa Flynn acted rings around her. The horror aspect was not well done and was too little too late. The camera angles were deliberately bad due to the budget, missing action that would have required a minor special effect like a retractable knife.The film was entertaining after awhile, although Robin Harris (Scott North) was not credible as a singer.The film won Best Independent Feature Award (Festival of Fantastic Films, UK 2008). It showed talented script writing, it needed better execution.Guide: F-word. Blurred nudity (Victoria Hopkins)

Shot documentary style following the aftermath of some mysterious events between the lead singer of a goth rock band and a pop star. The Devils music is a series of on camera interviews with people involved with the band and the music biz mixed in with footage filmed by people in the group showing some of the weirdness.The plot is actually an OK idea, the lead singer of a rock band befriends one of her groupies who used to be a fan of a pop-star who they believe has some dark secrets. on the positive side the members of the band and the tour manager are all very good and you believe in the interviews that they are real people. There are two or three actually pretty creepy moments in the movie that work well sadly thats it for positives.The two leads, the rock-star and the pop-star are terrible. Its real weak below TV standards acting and where the focus is on these two a lot of the time it really drags the movie down. But the most fundamental flaw with this movie is the music. Given that we are to believe that these are both successful acts in the music industry the songs are dreadful. The pop-star is supposed to have a major following but the songs are barely even radio jingle worthy. The same can be said of the rock songs and when the band are playing on stage there's people there holding instruments that aren't even on the track. You'd think if you were going to make a movie based around music you'd at least get some quality songwriting secured to make the whole thing believable.It's a real shame that an original idea was wasted on what turns out as a pretty useless film.