Plot
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.
Release Year: 2014
Rating: 4.5/10 (637 voted)
Director:Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Storyline
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.
"Devil's Due" ("Devil's Due ") could have been much more than it turned
out to be. Why? Well, the movie had a tendency to drag on in long
scenes that could have been shortened down by some more inventive
editing. Plus, the storyline was fairly weak.
If you want to make a accursed infant movie like this, and don't plan
to play on a solid storyline, then at least make sure you rip off some
cooll and grotesque scenes from Japanese Horror movies that will make
the audience squirm, and not just some half-hearted attempts to do so.
Which was sadly, what director Matt Bettinelli-Olpin had done here with
"Devil's Due". "Devil's Due" seems like a light version and more
audience-friendly version of the "Tamami: The Baby's Curse" movies.
The movie takes place mostly in a nursery with only four characters
there along with two hooded wardens. As such, there was a lot resting
on the shoulders of these four, and ultimately they didn't really
manage to pull it off. It wasn't because of their particular
performance, but because the movie was suffering from a bad script and
storyline.
However, compared to the Japanese movie in the same genre, "Baby's
Curse", then "Devil's Due" fared much better. Both movies aren't
particularly memorable or noteworthy, though.
And there were some awful errors in the movie. The worst one was the
animations on the TV. It was just ridiculous.
For a Hollywood ripped horror, then "Devil's Due" is a low ranking
entry to the genre, and compared to many other heavy-weighter's in the
Japanese horror genre, then "Devil's Due" is hardly worth the time or
effort.
The ending to the movie, when you find out who is actually behind the
things that happen, was actually nice, and does come as somewhat of a
surprise. Which was far from predictable.
I wasn't impressed one bit by the movie, but still managed to sit
through it all. I can honestly say that this movie will never make a
second trip to my DVD player. It was had no value to support a second
watching.
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