DeVour:
Directed by David Winkler and written by Adam Gross and Seth Gross
Oh boy those pesky early 2000s teen horror movies. This one went straight to DVD and stars a bevy of talented actor such as pre Supernatural Jensen Ackles, Dominique Swain from the remake of Lolita, Face Off and the classic Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre, a badly wasted William Sadler and some other folks. This movie is about a computer game possessed by demons who torment you and get you to do terrible things. I think they do because it doesn't ever show you anything. This is a rather tame horror movie. It came across like it might have intended for television before TV got gruesome itself.
This film popped up on my Amazon Prime feed and my fiancee who is a fan of Supernatural immediately said to stop flipping through the selections and pick this one. I can say with the utmost certainty that we made a mistake. It had no problem using the requisite adult language or showing people having sex but when to showing gore or even something scary, it chickened out. I was terribly confused by the reasoning for this. The other reason I thought this might have been intended for television is the rather flat, dull and lifeless appearance to the visuals. I know television nowadays is cinematic and beautiful and interesting in a lot of cases. In 2005 when this movie was made, that was a rare thing for tv to be.
Looking over David Winkler's filmography, the look of the movie makes perfect sense. Nothing but TV and straight to video. But enough about that, what about the performances huh? Huh? Dominique Swain is pretty good in this. You feel the pain that is hiding behind her. I feel like this is before Jensen Ackles really fell into his own. He is pretty dull. You have no real idea who he is or why he is doing what he is doing. Yeah he seems shaken up by what happens to his friends but nothing is behind the emotion there.
Now I'm not one to delve into spoilers of any kind. It's just not my style but there is a plot point in this movie that I just have to address. So here is the spoiler warning......
a group of devil worshippers perform a human sacrifice so that one of them can become one of the most sucessful video game developers around.
That's it. That's all there is to it. Of course in a major metropolitian city, everyone knows everyone and they're all connected in some way. It was entirely too many coincidences not to make your head hurt. Skip this one with all your might. It has little to nothing interesting. It won't hold your attention. It took me two nights to even finish the thing. I give this movie an F.
Oh boy those pesky early 2000s teen horror movies. This one went straight to DVD and stars a bevy of talented actor such as pre Supernatural Jensen Ackles, Dominique Swain from the remake of Lolita, Face Off and the classic Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre, a badly wasted William Sadler and some other folks. This movie is about a computer game possessed by demons who torment you and get you to do terrible things. I think they do because it doesn't ever show you anything. This is a rather tame horror movie. It came across like it might have intended for television before TV got gruesome itself.
This film popped up on my Amazon Prime feed and my fiancee who is a fan of Supernatural immediately said to stop flipping through the selections and pick this one. I can say with the utmost certainty that we made a mistake. It had no problem using the requisite adult language or showing people having sex but when to showing gore or even something scary, it chickened out. I was terribly confused by the reasoning for this. The other reason I thought this might have been intended for television is the rather flat, dull and lifeless appearance to the visuals. I know television nowadays is cinematic and beautiful and interesting in a lot of cases. In 2005 when this movie was made, that was a rare thing for tv to be.
Looking over David Winkler's filmography, the look of the movie makes perfect sense. Nothing but TV and straight to video. But enough about that, what about the performances huh? Huh? Dominique Swain is pretty good in this. You feel the pain that is hiding behind her. I feel like this is before Jensen Ackles really fell into his own. He is pretty dull. You have no real idea who he is or why he is doing what he is doing. Yeah he seems shaken up by what happens to his friends but nothing is behind the emotion there.
Now I'm not one to delve into spoilers of any kind. It's just not my style but there is a plot point in this movie that I just have to address. So here is the spoiler warning......
a group of devil worshippers perform a human sacrifice so that one of them can become one of the most sucessful video game developers around.
That's it. That's all there is to it. Of course in a major metropolitian city, everyone knows everyone and they're all connected in some way. It was entirely too many coincidences not to make your head hurt. Skip this one with all your might. It has little to nothing interesting. It won't hold your attention. It took me two nights to even finish the thing. I give this movie an F.