Devil (2010)
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 91
Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 44
It's better than many of the other films M. Night Shyamalan has been associated with, but Devil never gets more than a few low-budget thrills out of its fiendishly promising premise.
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 8
It's better than many of the other films M. Night Shyamalan has been associated with, but Devil never gets more than a few low-budget thrills out of its fiendishly promising premise.
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Five strangers trapped in an elevator realize that one of them is the Devil in this thriller from director John E. Dowdle (Quarantine) and screenwriter Brian Nelson (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night). The first installment of "The Night Chronicles," a film series in which up-and-coming filmmakers bring to life stories conceived by M. Night Shyamalan, Devil opens to find five Philadelphia office workers filing into the elevator of an inner-city office building. But a typical day at the office takes a
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Cast
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Chris Messina
Detective Bowden -
Logan Marshall-Green
Mechanic/Tony -
Jenny O'Hara
Old Woman -
Bojana Novakovic
Young Woman/Sarah -
Bokeem Woodbine
Guard/Ben -
Geoffrey Arend
Salesman/Vince -
Jacob Vargas
Ramirez -
Matt Craven
Lustig -
Joshua Peace
Detective Markowitz -
Caroline Dhavernas
Elsa Nahai -
Joe Cobden
Dwight -
Zoie Palmer
Cheryl -
Vincent Laresca
Henry -
Rudy Webb
Old Janitor -
Craig Eldridge
Donnelly -
Robert Lee
Chinese Man -
Genadijs Dolganovs
Janitor -
Joe Pingue
Business Bureau Clerk -
Michael Rhoades
Uni -
Kelly Jones
Firefighter Kurtzy -
Lee Oliveira
Firefighter #2 -
Jonathan Potts
Wayne Kazan -
Alice Poon
Officer Choi -
Stacy Chbosky
Car Crash Woman -
Jay Hunter
Firefighter
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Circling wildly within the film's main set -- a stalled elevator car -- or hurtling up and down an empty shaft, Mr. Fujimoto's camera is as giddy as a tween at a Justin Bieber concert.
Top CriticThere's an old belief in TV series production circles that if you're doing a stuck-in-an-elevator episode before Season 4, it's a telltale sign you've run fresh out of ideas.
This is the sort of cut-rate cinematic Cheez Whiz that gives religious horror movies a bad name. Still, at least it's not The Last Airbender.
The great cinematographer Tak Fujimoto has the time of his life on this low-budget horror feature, playing with dolly shots, abrupt zooms, and negative space inside the widescreen frame, and the fun is infectious.
At best a cheesy, unsatisfying thriller and, at worst, a waste of time.
Devil is guaranteed to keep you on tenterhooks from beginning to end -- and without much gore.
M. Night Shyamalan at his most messianic -- he just takes too long to get to the frights.
The characters are unlikable and annoying but the suspense built up is very real, making "Devil" a thriller worth checking out.
It always makes me apprehensive to see a movie that was not screened for critics in advance. "Devil" looked like it could have been an interesting film, but [it turns out] the lack of faith was justified.
Although it doubtless will find more success in the DVD market, on the big screen Devil makes for bland viewing.
Nonsensical to the point that every element doesn't hold up to the least bit of scrutiny.
This movie's job was to whip up a little fear and/or suspense, but it must have escaped through a crack in the elevator doors.
Un ejercicio de suspenso sobrenatural bastante efectivo, sobre todo en su primera parte, aunque lleno de lugares comunes más bien irritantes. Y, sobre todo, con la reiterada pretensión evangelizadora que inunda el cine de M. Night Shyamalan...
[M]ost of its promise is squandered through inept scripting and a failure to indulge a self-aware enthusiasm for its B-movie concept.
An effective locked-in-the-box thriller.
For a small package, it conjures up some effective ideas and scares, as well as some terrific atmospheric moments.
A small scale but modestly effective broken elevator thriller that is more Agatha Christie than Alfred Hitchcock.
Devil is pretty obvious in its intentions, with not-so-subtle religious metaphors spread throughout, but the film delivers enough thrills and chills to keep audiences entertained.
Audience Reviews for Devil
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- Mechanic/Tony: Who are you?
- Old Woman: Today, I'm an old woman.
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- Old Woman: Damn, I really wanted you.
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- Detective Bowden: So no, I don't believe in the Devil. You don't need him, people are bad enough by themselves.
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- Ramirez: You see it?
- Lustig: Yeah, look, that's just... That's just grain in the image. That's, you know, it's a mistake. It's like when people see Jesus in a pancake or something.
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- Salesman/Vince: Your building SUCKS!
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- Guard/Ben: Hey lady you need to sign in.
- Young Woman/Sarah: Do I look like such a threat.
- Guard/Ben: Don't blame me, we got procedures.
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Foreign Titles
- La trampa del mal (ES)
- The Night Chronicles: Devil (AU)
