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Devil

Name: Devil
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: September 17, 2010
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 44
Cast: Bokeem Woodbine, Caroline Dhavernas, Chris Messina

2010

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DEVIL

Movie Details & Credits

Universal Pictures | Release Date: September 17, 2010 | PG-13

Starring: Bokeem Woodbine, Caroline Dhavernas, Chris Messina

Summary: A group of people trapped in a elevator realize that the devil is among them.

Director: Drew Dowdle and John Erick Dowdle

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 80 min

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61	#61 Most Discussed Movie of 2010
32	#32 Most Shared Movie of 2010

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Philadelphia Inquirer Tirdad Derakhshani

Guaranteed to keep you on tenterhooks from beginning to end - and without much gore. Dowdle and company trade in the usual trappings of the genre for a tantalizing blend of tension, suspense, and mystery. Read full review

Chicago Reader Ben Sachs

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. Read full review

Boxoffice Magazine John P. McCarthy

There are a sufficient number of jolts thanks to quick edits and sound effects, plus the script's efficient structure. Read full review

Los Angeles Times Robert Abele

By the time the patented Shyamalan Extra-Strength Third Act Twist is revealed, being asked to care about fate, redemption and forgiveness when a satan-in-an-elevator gimmick hasn't delivered is like getting medicinal aftertaste from what should have been a box of delectably fiery Red Hots. Read full review

Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore

Devil is the sort of story Rod Serling would have taken for a spin in "The Twilight Zone," back in the day. Shyamalan came up with the idea, produced it and got others to script and direct this 76 minute exercise in movie minimalism. Read full review

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

In the end, Devil feels like an ingenious short film pumped up for theatrical release. Shyamalan's story is sound, but the execution dragged me to hell and left me there wondering if his much-rumored sequel to "Unbreakable" was ever going to arrive. Read full review

Time Out Drew Toal

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." Read full review

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Seba

Sep 17, 2010

This movie is great! Its not like all the other damn horror movies these days where there is no story at all, and all they focus on is blood and gore. This actually has a story and it definitely worth your time and money!

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Thug-Negus

Dec 17, 2010

I found the original script, too bad the movie is not a little longer, I find that the reviews are pretty harsh??? It is a good B movie. Waiting for the next chronicles.

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Exogenesis

Nov 13, 2011

A very clever, thrilling outing from a generally unfavoured film maker. Devil kept me guessing until the finale, and left me more that satisfied. Watch this film.

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ckary

Apr 4, 2011

The film draws the viewer in with classic suspense and satisfying thrill. Were it not for the sub-par dialogue and predictably sequential killing of those involved, the film may have warranted a bit more of an attractive critical surrounding. Nevertheless, it stands to be a very stimulatingThe film draws the viewer in with classic suspense and satisfying thrill. Were it not for the sub-par dialogue and predictably sequential killing of those involved, the film may have warranted a bit more of an attractive critical surrounding. Nevertheless, it stands to be a very stimulating horror flick, which is almost as creepy as some of the characters in the supporting ensemble. A definite win for a director who makes more duds than a French bomb factory. It's no Sixth Sense, but if you have any appreciation for scary movies, you'll get something out of "Devil."… Expand

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MovieGuys

Feb 15, 2014

Devil is typical genre fare with its horror movie clichés and such, but that's not to say it isn't half bad as a film. It's not a great movie, but it'll do for a Friday night.

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Shiira

Sep 18, 2010

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There are Intuitionists and there are Empiricists, two warring factions of elevator inspectors who form the Elevator Guild, an organization that is at the center of the alternative world in Colson Whitehead's first novel "The Intuitionist", an allegory about race, upward mobility and...religion. The Empiricists see the problem; they scoff at the procedural metaphysics that is practiced by the Intuitionists, men and women with hunches who divine the problem. Lila Mae Watson, the first black elevator inspector in the history of the Guild is an Intuitionist; she uses a faith-based approach on each inspection job. Intuitionists just know. But then Lila Mae's kind come under fire when an elevator car she oversaw on a routine inspection, suffers a complete malfunction, plummeting to the ground, which calls the Intuitionists' methodology into question. As it turns out, Lila Mae was a victim of sabotage, perpetuated by the Empiricists, who rigged the fall. G. Carson is the elevator inspector in "Devil", a film with a world that's topsy-turvy in its own right. The vertically-challenged opening shots of the upside-down metropolis has an estranging effect on the moviegoer, because it reallocates heaven and hell from their normal points of reference: north and south. So what does it mean when Gehenna finds itself aloft in an emblematic sky, while a reconstituted Canaan is lowered from the celestial sphere, occupying where the ground used to be? Well, if Gabriel and his gang of rowdy angels can kick ass in Scott Stewart's "Legion", why can't the devil sport an altruistic side and do God's work for a change? "Devil" inverts The Rolling Stones' song "Sympathy for the Devil" through its originative characterization of an archfiend who has sympathy for the human condition. Taking the form of an old woman, the devil works in ways more mysterious to God; she's a one-demon advocacy group: D.A.D.D.(Devil Against Drunk Driving). The devil cares. Like the Colson Whitehead novel, "Devil" has its own intuitionists and empiricists in a holding pattern of ideological discord. When a ghostly image superimposes itself upon the elevator passengers in the security camera monitor, Ramirez(Jacob Vargas), the intuitionist(read: ecclesiasticist in the Whitehead novel), has a gut reaction; that video disturbance, his gut tells him, is the devil, whereas Lustiq(Matt Craven), the empiricist(read: atheist), dismisses his partner's spiritual notions outrightly. Bowden(Chris Messina), the detective in charge of the ongoing crime scene, is also an empiricist, but with a difference; he believes that man is the devil, after a mortal demon left his wife and child at the scene of a vehicular homicide. He becomes an intuitionist after the devil reveals herself, and forces the drunk driver(Logan Marshall-Green) to repent. Afterward, in the squad car, Bowden tells Tony who he is, and forgives the man for what he'd done to his life. The devil made him do it. That's pretty subversive stuff. God is nowhere on the scene. G. Carson(COL-son) is no longer in the elevator inspection business. What if "G" stands for God?… Expand

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theNILE

Apr 8, 2016

"When he's near the toast falls jelly-side down"

Most wtf line in this movie. And this movie is wtf. The script is so awful and has Christian proslyzation. After two characters die, you just don't give a **** The basic concept is so good, but we just felt they were all gonna die. The most"When he's near the toast falls jelly-side down"

Most wtf line in this movie. And this movie is wtf. The script is so awful and has Christian proslyzation. After two characters die, you just don't give a **** The basic concept is so good, but we just felt they were all gonna die. The most boring victim of "Satan" is actually the most interesting character. There was no suspense and it feels 2 hours long. Also wtf at the name thing, was that supposed to be a twist? The directing was good, but everything else was so awful, even the CGI. Hellraiser 1 put more fear of omnipotent beings into us than this drab movie.… Expand

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