DEVIL'S REVENGE is another no-budget indie horror outing only notable for the casting of William Shatner - who also receives a producer credit - in a small supporting role as the father of one of the leads. It's a generic, mindlessly moronic slice of occult horror in which a caving team stumble upon a literal cave of Hell, at which point the main character finds himself cursed to be haunted by Halloween-store demons. Stilted acting, boring plotting, a wasted Jeri Ryan in support and cheesy effects combine to make this par for the course for an indie horror, i.e. it's very poor.

John (Jason Brooks) is after an artifact that will lift the curse on his family which has been doing well for generations. He is a descendant of Spanish Conquistadors who attacked the Aztecs. The people of the cave were killed by the Aztecs, so why the Conquistadors were cursed, I haven't figured out. To break the curse John must destroy "the artifact." His wife Susan (Jeri Ryan) his kids, and dad (William Shatner) go along with him.

The cave was fairly flat, except for that one part and it had a lot of backlighting. I am not sure how Aztec and Kentucky can be used in the same sentence, except for maybe "The Aztecs were never in Kentucky." Shatner had some stand-alone "dramatic" readings. I had to laugh out loud. I loved the original Star Trek series but truth be told, Shatner can not act. Were those steel swords and knives used by the Native Americans? They never had an iron age. The scriptwriter is not smarter than a fifth-grader.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Granted, when I stumbled upon this 2019 movie titled "Devil's Revenge", I was initially intrigued. So I picked it up and saw that William Shatner was in it, and I must admit that whatever hopes I had for the movie started to dim. But still, I decided to give the movie a chance and sat down to watch it.

Turn out that my expectations of this movie not being anything grand came to be. This movie was fairly bland and actually rather mundane and pointless. The storyline was essentially to blame here, because director Jared Cohn wasn't really giving the audience much in terms of a proper script or storyline.

What did work for the movie was the special effects and the design of the demonic creatures. I liked those. But sadly they could only do so much to salvage the rest of the movie, which was somewhat of a swing and a miss.

As for the acting, well you shouldn't get your hopes up. And truth be told, it was just toe-curling to watch William Shatner in a movie such as this, holding a grenade launcher and shooting demonic creatures up close and personal with some dubious and questionable CGI effect explosions.

I managed to endure the entire movie, although I can't claim that I was entertained. And this is not a movie that I will be watching a second time.

My rating of "Devil's Revenge" is a mere three out of ten stars.