2010 · horror · mystery · thriller
Devil
Directed by John Erick Dowdle1h 20m2010
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
Our read: Devil (2010) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · mystery · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
Watching Devil tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Devil feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a quick elevator morality puzzle with supernatural dread and lean runtime.”
Skip it tonight — You hate confined spaces and gimmicky twist horror even at eighty minutes.
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