Somebody did inform Hollywood that when you make a horror film, it doesn’t have to be found footage right?
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“Devil’s Due” is the latest found footage horror movie and explores a young married couple and the aftermath when strange things start happening around her pregnancy. OK, honesty check, I had a lot of trouble with this one. No, not the movie… Well, actually yes the movie, but what I’m speaking of is this review. When your gig is to offer a best thing and worst thing about a movie, what do you do when there is no best thing?
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I mean I tried, I really did, I thought about if it had any good performances, not really. Any characters I connected too, nope. Any of the script seem clever? Any of the plot seem inventive? Any new takes on the genre? No, No, and an absolutly no. I mean I guess it was neat when Sam Anderson showed up, but saying “Hey, cool, it’s Bernard from LOST” didn’t exactly feel like a worthwhile celebration. Plus, no Rose, and really, Bernard without Rose? What’s the point?
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I’ll tell you the point. The point is I hunted for that ray of sunshine in this dark universe of a film and for the life of me I just couldn’t find it, which makes summing up what I didn’t like about the movie pretty easy. Everything! For the first 30 minutes or so I was thinking, my goodness, this movie is taking so long to get started, and then I realized, nope, this is the whole thing. Just found footage trope after found footage trope that we’ve seen over and over again since the first Paranormal Activity. I mean there really is nothing new here, nothing! And maybe that’s just the case with the genre now. Maybe at this point when I review these kinds of movies I just say, hey it’s another found footage horror movie, respond accordingly. But the worst thing about Devil’s Due was the end. Not because it was predictable, though it was, not because there was no interesting revelation, even though there wasn’t, no I hated the end, because it had the audacity to try and set up a sequel! Honestly, to insinuate that they may try and put the audience through this nonsense again, may have just been the scariest thing I saw in the entire 90 minutes I was in the theater.
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Overall? It’s another found footage horror movie, respond accordingly. I say F
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