Another film where the camera tells the story! A cult looks for couples which the cult victimizes the couples with a nasty pregnancy. What works is the actors and director comes across as real life. I like how the characters' behaviour is detailed with little quirks. Devil's Due's strongest asset is the story's linear progression of events slowly getting worse. As usual the story's protagonist pieces together the bizarre event too little to late. Devil's due is another homage similar to Blair Witch and the Paranormal series. The originality of the camera telling the story genre is getting old. Still a watchable movie. I give Devil's Due a six or seven out of ten. Depending if you like horror movies. Does everyone always have to expire in these films?
Devil's Due
2014
Action / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Devil's Due
2014
Action / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Keywords: found footagefrancesatan
Plot summary
After a mysterious, lost night on their honeymoon, 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.
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Dull reworking of Rosemary's Baby
DEVIL'S DUE is another 'devil baby' movie, albeit one with a slightly left-of-centre twist: this one's a found footage reworking of the same storyline as in ROSEMARY'S BABY. The familiarity of the material means that it's something of a bore to sit through.
The film isn't strictly found footage in that the camera-work isn't supposedly taken from characters using video cameras and the like; instead, the ever-present camera shoots in a documentary style. The actors are to be commended for giving naturalistic performances, and there are some decent shock sequences, particularly one involving a local vicar.
It's just a shame, then, that the film has such a jaded feel to it and the premise is so hackneyed. The shake-all-over-the-place climax is particularly nauseating, and not in a good way. DEVIL'S DUE has potential but in the end the indifferent execution makes it a bit of a joyless chore to sit through.
Stillborn
A hybrid of a found footage and a documentary style reworking of Rosemary's Baby done on the cheap.
Newlyweds Samantha (Allison Miller) and Zach McCall (Zach Gilford) honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. One evening they are taken to a weird bar by a cab driver. They get drunk to a point they do not remember what happened that night. Samantha is taken to a room where some kind of ritual is performed on her and when they arrive home, she is pregnant even though Samantha has been taking birth control pills.
Zach notices his wife behaving oddly. She starts to eat raw meat even though she is a vegetarian. She can be aggressive, she can display great strength, she thinks there is something wrong with the baby. There are strangers watching the house who have rigged the house with hidden cameras. A priest ends up being hospitalised as he starts to suddenly cough up blood during a church service that the couple attend. The priest suspects that Samantha is due to give birth to the antichrist.
The film has nothing new to offer when it comes to a possessed pregnancy or the found footage genre. It has all been recycled from other horror films. Apart from a few jolts it is absurd and not that scary. Even though it is less than 90 minutes long, it feels too long.