Devil's Due (2014)

this film is in every sense of the word atrocious. "directed" by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett in the year 2014. I have never seen a film so that was this uneventful and awful.the sub plot involving the satanic cult is preposterous and foolish. why do what they are doing, to people who are from another continent? because it's easier to lure tourists? if leisure is a factor, wouldn't it be harder this way though? keeping in mind that you have to follow the tourists back to a totally different continent to pursue the baby? why would you not just hold them captive until the birth? would it not make sense to do what they are doing to some locals instead? nothing about the plot makes sense and comes off as totally idiotic and abysmal.the characters are by far some of the most dull and idiotic characters I have ever seen. I am not even going to bother listing the actors names because it really doesn't matter. the husband is the biggest twit I have ever had the displeasure of watching in a horror film. immature and annoying to the extent that it becomes unwatchable. he decides to video tape EVERYTHING, the reason being because "i have to film everything so I can remember all the little things." so the film is the footage from his camera. yet we get clips from a grocery store security camera? as well as a segment filmed by random kids? it just doesn't make any logical sense in the context of the plot and ruins the realism. the acting itself is so wooden and unmemorable it's astounding. these characters say and do nothing interesting or even slightly fun.when I say that this film is uneventful I truly mean nothing interesting or memorable happens. zero effective scare scenes and zero tension. it's attempt to build itself up to the climax is laughable. the most interesting things that happen are the wife eats raw meat and she shouts at a youngster. the only scene that was even slightly, and I mean slightly decent, would be the scene involving the priest. Even the climax of the film comes across as uninteresting and has zero suspense or visual flare to it.truthfully one of the most dull and uninspired films I have seen in my entire lifetime.the verdict: 1.5/10

With two things that have been done so many damn times before you would think that the creative staff would go for something new but they don't. Expect all the nonsensical found footage clichés such as people putting cameras absolutely everywhere and not checking them too late. Naturally bad camera work, cheap effects, and a complete near absence of a story. Basically cultists who use the symbol from the old PC game quake stalk a clueless family to get the devil baby they planted inside of a woman. There is NOTHING new presented here that hasn't been done a million times. At least movies like Taking of Deborah Logan which had been done to death offered a few neat scenes in there. No Content No Story Absolutely nothing interesting.

There hasn't been a movie that's so predictable, it makes rewatching Paranormal Activity a fresh experience. This is mediocrity in scene by scene basis. It's almost surprising, if it's not so sad that the producer or director once thought imitation of other horror films could be a substitute for real tension. Furthermore, displaying it in found footage style doesn't add anything, let alone mask the unoriginality.The lackluster story is about two couples who happily spend their honeymoon, but in the end meet with dubious characters. After some bizarre forgettable occurrence, the bride is pregnant. No, this is not Hangover, although it would've been better. What follows is a mix between pregnancy scare and overused gimmicks. The theme has been used before, but this is acceptable, many movies use already proved formula and produces new material. Devil's Due, on the other hand, cobbles together pieces of other works in hope of anyone who hasn't watched horror movies in years will find it amusing.Its use of found footage mechanic further confuses the plot, because some of the scenes shouldn't have been captured in the first place. It uses all security cameras which are in vicinity of the story, it's not only one vlogger type, yet it still feels unauthentic and staged to capture certain scenes. It probably would've been slightly better if it's done in simple third person view.There's not much excellence in acting either, the usual scream and frantic gaze. As an intimate experience of maternity, the movie could've depicted more personal issue. The scares aren't much better, often showing people in trance or shouting randomly. Every part of the movie is dull, any horror it has is watered down because it's near exact replica of others.Granted, those who had or having the delicate 9 months marathon could appreciate it better, but why would they watch this movie, why would anyone for that matter?

Even though this film isn't billed as a found footage film that is exactly what it feels like. That's not a bad thing in itself, but unfortunately this film seems to follow the tradition of found footage films...We are treated to a long tedious first half with an annoying couple spouting ridiculous dialogue. The majority of this dialogue is inane and does nothing to advance the plot. In fact probably the only aspect of the first half of the film that has any relevance to the plot is where our couple meet with the psychic. The biggest problem with this narrative style is that it not only makes for a dull film, but it also ends up antagonising your audience and actually makes you hate the characters that you're supposed to care for.Things do improve in the second half once the plot kicks in and our newlyweds do at least become less annoying as the film progresses. This film is billed as a 'Horror' but to me a horror film should be scary. However, for me, this film was 'shocking' rather than scary and there is a difference. A good horror film will keep you continuously scared and will leave you scared even when the credits are rolling. A film that shocks makes you flinch because you're shocked at what you see at that particular moment, not because it scares you. It didn't help that most of the time you could predict when the scares would come and what trick the filmmakers would employ simply because so much of this has been recycled from other horror films.The film isn't even great from a technical aspect; the camera work was shoddy (the camera was shaking about all over the place as if a drunk had got hold of it). The lighting was pretty poor as well. These aspects can perhaps be forgiven as this film was clearly made on a budget.The writing is inconsistent at best; Samantha's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, but her idiot husband put it down to hormones - of course every woman smashes car windows and has psychotic episodes in church when they're pregnant. It just isn't believable that any rational human being would class this as normal behaviour. Devil's due isn't the worst film of its kind that I've seen, but it's far from the best film of its kind and that's the problem. In my opinion, this just isn't worth watching.