MitchellCombden this film is in every sense of the word atrocious. "directed" by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett in the year 2014. I have never seen a film so that was this uneventful and awful.the sub plot involving the satanic cult is preposterous and foolish. why do what they are doing, to people who are from another continent? because it's easier to lure tourists? if leisure is a factor, wouldn't it be harder this way though? keeping in mind that you have to follow the tourists back to a totally different continent to pursue the baby? why would you not just hold them captive until the birth? would it not make sense to do what they are doing to some locals instead? nothing about the plot makes sense and comes off as totally idiotic and abysmal.the characters are by far some of the most dull and idiotic characters I have ever seen. I am not even going to bother listing the actors names because it really doesn't matter. the husband is the biggest twit I have ever had the displeasure of watching in a horror film. immature and annoying to the extent that it becomes unwatchable. he decides to video tape EVERYTHING, the reason being because "i have to film everything so I can remember all the little things." so the film is the footage from his camera. yet we get clips from a grocery store security camera? as well as a segment filmed by random kids? it just doesn't make any logical sense in the context of the plot and ruins the realism. the acting itself is so wooden and unmemorable it's astounding. these characters say and do nothing interesting or even slightly fun.when I say that this film is uneventful I truly mean nothing interesting or memorable happens. zero effective scare scenes and zero tension. it's attempt to build itself up to the climax is laughable. the most interesting things that happen are the wife eats raw meat and she shouts at a youngster. the only scene that was even slightly, and I mean slightly decent, would be the scene involving the priest. Even the climax of the film comes across as uninteresting and has zero suspense or visual flare to it.truthfully one of the most dull and uninspired films I have seen in my entire lifetime.the verdict: 1.5/10

hafaball-1 Even a decade and a half after The Blair Witch Project was released, found footage films still plague our cinemas. What was once a nice niche to get away from the giant blockbusters, has slowly, but surely, become a virus to us all. That may be a bit harsh to a film like Devil's Due, but the whole genre in general needs a break.. and fast.**Warning, this review does contain spoilers** Watching these horror found footage films nowadays, especially Devil's Due, made me ponder what it would have been like in a nice short cut of 15 minutes in the V/H/S franchise. Clocking in at only an hour and 20, the film still finds ways to stretch. Instead of the wedding, why not start at the honeymoon? Instead of Zach (Zach Gilford) the good intentioned husband making his 4th call on the phone explaining his wife is acting strange, why not move the plot along? Instead of the first doctor, why not start with the creepy one? Yes, the second doctor is creepy, but that's also another problem. Subtly is not the films strong suit. Oh, the Priest is coughing, because he's near the demon baby. I see... And now Samantha (Allison Miller) is turning into Tetsuo from Akira? Because the Anti-Christ growing inside her just isn't interesting enough.Found footage also ruins everything that's happening always. The film does try to do different things, "mini chest cam" for one, but what person would see their pregnant wife in incredible pain or smashing the windows of a stranger's car and not drop the camera? And what 7 year old walks around in complete darkness with night vision? I get the spooky element everyone on set wants to make, but it's just puzzling and not well thought out. In this scene the girl is scared by Samantha, which could have been, again, subtly expressed in the next scene when she sees the girl again the next day at the church, but, they decided to go with the coughing priest instead. The cab driver from the beginning of the film in the church was a nice touch, but these are too few and far in between.Though the whole premise is found footage, the question begs, who found the footage. The cult seemingly takes everything, setting up Zach, so who's showing the footage? The Cult? Did they get their hands on the interrogation of Zach as well? Was one of the cops part of the cult? It sure was nice of them to edit the thing together though, for us all to learn about their Devil cult. Because in other found footage movies, the footage is usually found by someone other than the killer. Who, in retrospect, probably wouldn't turn it over to the public for viewing. A Demon in Paranormal Activity, after killing a family, wouldn't use Final Cut and say, "Hey everyone, look what I did." Maybe they would, Demon's are kind of jerks.The good is definitely Allison Miller. She works with what she has and runs away with it. I hope she has a future, because she's really the only redeemable thing to the film. Much better films are Rosemary's Baby, The Omen and even To the Devil a Daughter.

DannyJude I wish somebody who was connected with this film could explain to me who the hell is supposed to be holding the camera throughout the movie. Who???It's like somebody watched a bunch of well-known horror films and then just mashed them all together with no rhyme or reason. Horrible events occur - with NO FOLLOW-UP WHATSOEVER. This movie was made by people who have absolutely no expectation that anybody with half a brain might see it.I'm not going into specifics so as to not spoil it for anybody (I actually don't think that's possible, though). I highly recommend you avoid this movie. The parts that aren't absurd are totally obvious. I guess the acting is okay for what's its worth. That's why I give it a 2 rather than 1. But this is a stinky one, folks.

jimbo-53-186511 Even though this film isn't billed as a found footage film that is exactly what it feels like. That's not a bad thing in itself, but unfortunately this film seems to follow the tradition of found footage films...We are treated to a long tedious first half with an annoying couple spouting ridiculous dialogue. The majority of this dialogue is inane and does nothing to advance the plot. In fact probably the only aspect of the first half of the film that has any relevance to the plot is where our couple meet with the psychic. The biggest problem with this narrative style is that it not only makes for a dull film, but it also ends up antagonising your audience and actually makes you hate the characters that you're supposed to care for.Things do improve in the second half once the plot kicks in and our newlyweds do at least become less annoying as the film progresses. This film is billed as a 'Horror' but to me a horror film should be scary. However, for me, this film was 'shocking' rather than scary and there is a difference. A good horror film will keep you continuously scared and will leave you scared even when the credits are rolling. A film that shocks makes you flinch because you're shocked at what you see at that particular moment, not because it scares you. It didn't help that most of the time you could predict when the scares would come and what trick the filmmakers would employ simply because so much of this has been recycled from other horror films.The film isn't even great from a technical aspect; the camera work was shoddy (the camera was shaking about all over the place as if a drunk had got hold of it). The lighting was pretty poor as well. These aspects can perhaps be forgiven as this film was clearly made on a budget.The writing is inconsistent at best; Samantha's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, but her idiot husband put it down to hormones - of course every woman smashes car windows and has psychotic episodes in church when they're pregnant. It just isn't believable that any rational human being would class this as normal behaviour. Devil's due isn't the worst film of its kind that I've seen, but it's far from the best film of its kind and that's the problem. In my opinion, this just isn't worth watching.