Devil's Due (2014)

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

When a newly wed young couple accept an invitation to a club from a very suspicious looking taxi driver whilst on their honeymoon they fall prey to some unclear Satanic cult & she then becomes pregnant with the Devil's child. There's a lesson to be learned! This is basically a Rosemary's Baby clone but for the modern age. Filmed in the found footage style, a sub genre that has been frankly done to death, and although I felt that it wasn't entirely necessary for this movie they did at least do a reasonable job. Acting is good & there are a few decent special effects thrown in but on the downside it is fairly slow for most part, the shaky camera work does become annoying at times & plot wise it doesn't offer much.

After returning home from their honeymoon, a newlywed couple's unexpected pregnancy causes him to grow worrisome that her strange behavior is not normal and gradually comes to believe a more sinister purpose is behind it.This turned out to be quite a disappointing supernatural effort. One of the main issues against this one is the rather bland and uninteresting premise that brings in the found-footage aspect simply for no purpose as this falls into the conventional trap so many similar efforts utilize here in that way too many scenes here would have little use to be filmed as there's no real concern for either the safety of the videographer at the time or the need to be incognito during filming so there's a large amount of scenes here that really don't need to be filmed in here. Likewise, the film also makes a cardinal mistake of not making the footage pertinent to the main storyline here since this one tends to feature the husband up on murder charges yet never once uses the footage shot in that case, tending to leave it a question as for why that was included in the first place as well as where and how the footage got edited together to make the film. there's little about this that makes sense as for why it was a found-footage movie other than being a gimmick to start with and it tends to leave the film really lacking. Another big flaw here is the first half is just not that scary in the first half here with this one really taking very few enjoyable turns here to really showcase any kind of enjoyable scares which this one seems to think it's full of. The scenes at the grocery store are just lame with her being a committed vegetarian and then scarfing down raw steak, a completely ill- focused freak-out on another vehicle shown through the security cameras from the store and her general crankiness and volatility towards her friends and family which are just not all that scary or thrilling and really causes the first half to feel far more drawn-out and dull than it really should as there's some decent material to work with here. The concept of the cult's activities on tourists by taking them willingly into their hideout to impregnate them with something sinister is a pretty unique and enjoyable take on the concept by making it appear to be done through their own voluntary means to allow them to operate in secret. The burgeoning pregnancy allows for the use of the cult symbols to really come out of nowhere and be a rather creepy motive that's quite unexpected and really draws a lot of unnerving story lines in here, and there's the final half hour which shows off all manner of enjoyable supernatural action with the encounter in the abandoned house, the race to get home and the attacks within as the birth is under way in a truly chilling and fantastic sequence. Still, there's more problems here that tend to lower this one.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity.

This is going to be shorter than usual...I've never been a real fan of Found Footage / Mockumentary sub- genres of Horror. I'm a devout Horror fan and I make sure to give them a chance from time to time, but so far I am yet to find a film from these categories that I honestly enjoy.Devil's Due is seen through the eyes of a few camera (made possible by the script making sure the plot involves surveillance hidden cams placed inside the house). I do have to say that the cast did a good job acting "realistically", making suspension of disbelief easier. However, that is the last good thing I have to say.The story is nice at best, and lacks originality, innovation or twists. We've seen similar plots not only in 11.11.11, but the famous cult film Rosemary's Baby. On that note, it feels like Devil'a Due is nothing more than a Rosemary remake (if that was the original goal - then okay, well done, gave the same paranoid sensation).Nothing innovative, nothing impressive, nothing to make this film worth watching or remembering. After struggling, I decided to go with a 4. Perhaps a 5 would have been more objective, but there's a limit to how merciful one could be. This is just my opinion of course. If you like the sub-genre, watch it, you might enjoy it. I didn't.

After a mysterious, lost night on their honeymoon, Samantha (Allison Miller) & Zach (Zach Gilford) McCall, a newlywed couple, finds themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy. While recording everything for posterity, the husband begins to notice odd behavior in his wife that they initially write off to nerves, but, as the months pass, it becomes evident that the dark changes to her body and mind have a much more sinister origin.Devil's Due is another entry into the camera POV genre (it's not really a "lost footage found" movie), but unfortunately it's not really one of the best and it's actually a bit of an alternative take on Rosemary's Baby.The movie starts out well enough, but it doesn't really build up from any point onwards and kind of stays the same throughout. There are moments when you think that things would starts getting better, and the plot would develop more, but unfortunately it doesn't. There are a couple of decent moments in the movie and some mildly freaky scenes, but other than that it's pretty much a big miss.One thing that didn't sit well with me was that Zach is recording & documenting everything for posterity, but the very 1st time he actually checks on something is about 6 months into Samantha's pregnancy (a lot of strange happenings have went on prior to this moment). I mean who wouldn't watch back what they have recorded for the previous day? It may be just a little thing, but it's just one thing that irked me.Apart from the few odd moments here and there as I previously mentioned, it's all rather flat and it's a shame because the two directors, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett, had an enjoyable hit with V/H/S but I feel that Devil's Due is a step in the wrong direction for them. Hopefully they have a better hit with their next project.Watchable but nothing to get excited about.