ksgillihan Having seen the trailer a few months ago, this movie instantly went on my check-list as a must-see movie. The film starts with an interesting story as a mother works to save money for her ill child who lives far away. Soon she starts to see some strange things and she begins to question her sanity. I liked this direction as the occasional specter would show up unannounced and leave just as quickly. We are left wondering if they are "real" or if they are just "real" to her. From the trailer I expected this film to creep my out a lot more than it did. Granted I have a high tolerance to being scared but I had hopes in what the trailer seemed to promise. Towards the 3/4 mark the film seemed to lose steam as we begin to see what is really going on (if you guessed it like I did) with the main character. What doesn't really make sense to me is why she would just start killing people like mad. Sure she had just lost her son but why the heck does that make her character just start killing people? Didn't seem to fit with the character in my opinion. Ultimately not scary and not shocking.

Boloxxxi This movie is for the most part contained within a restaurant where Lourdes works as a cleaning woman to make money for her sick son's operation. We see the restaurant filled with patrons only once (early in the movie) and some close-ups of the chef's gloveless, grubby hands preparing food in the kitchen while people at the other end obliviously lap it up. For the most part though, it's after hours or before hours with Lourdes who is usually alone but sometimes with 2 other people who work at the restaurant. One is her boss, a real bitch who enjoys giving her a hard time. The other, a guy, is a first-class jerk who is always coming on to her and whose function at the restaurant beyond boffing the boss seems to be prepping meat (Don't laugh).Lourdes is seeing and hearing things and believes the restaurant is haunted. We don't know if she is cracking up or actually experiencing certain things. But since we, the viewers, see things that she does not see because she --for example-- has her back turned, this would seem to be independent (of her) corroboration by us, the viewing audience that the restaurant is indeed haunted. Now when not mopping up, having strange experiences, and run-ins with her boss, Lourdes is (1) On the phone begging her mother to speak with her son. (2) Having personal fantasies --no, not that kind. (3) Talking to some guy she bumped into early in the movie when something spooked her and she ran out of the restaurant. (4) Desperately giving blow jobs and who knows what else to patrons for money (so we inferred anyway).At the beginning of the movie I was captivated by it's style and anticipatory and intrigued by what was starting to happen with this woman; the things she was experiencing. What was behind them? But then the movie seemed to settle into a routine; her going to work, cleaning up, calling her mother, fantasizing about seeing her son and her friend, run-ins with her boss, and some curious unnatural experiences. I say "routine" because things didn't escalate as quickly as I would have liked. BUT THAT'S JUST ME, READER. You may have a different sense of pace should you choose to see the movie --AND YOU SHOULD, since it acquitted itself very well with a very interesting twist and explanation at the end. Well worth the wait. Love, Boloxxxi.

Snaggletooth . I'm sure I've written before on IMDb about how dire most Hollywood flicks are. I constantly search for the alternatives, ie. those flying low, and off the radar, but I must admit of course, that a lot of low budget flicks can be pretty awful. I came across Devoured online, and while it's not super low budget, these days it's meagre $1.5million ranks as quite low compared to most (effects laden) cinematic garbage stinking our movie houses. Devoured however, walks all over most of them.From the opening scene of the dead girl surrounded by police, we go back with her to a time when she was alive, I can't say happily alive, because her existence (we come to learn) has been driven only by the need to earn money for her ailing sons medical care back in Mexico. But this isn't some sugary sweet tale of parenthood. Devoured is darkly atmospheric, and while some may consider it slowly paced I thought it was marvelously done. It slowly builds pity for, and connection with, the leading girl suffering her daily trek, to and from work, to achieve her only goal. And by the time it gets to a scene where she is assaulted by her female bosses boyfriend, her tears are enough to move you to tears (almost) too. I thought that scene was brilliantly done, no words or struggle from her, no change of expression, just tears. Fantastic. I haven't mentioned yet that some sinister presence means she's not alone in the building at night. The CCTV cameras follow her moves which really makes it feel as if we are there watching her too. She continues to work for minimum wage and send money home to Mexico with a few calls along the way to her mother (and son) telling them she''ll be home soon. All the time though, we know something isn't right with a strange figure appearing in the restaurant at random intervals, along with strange visions and experiences. Each new day is heralded by a scene of some food preparation (this works pretty well), and the atmosphere of what it must be like to be alone in NYC is delivered with stark style. And then, the ending....The last ten minutes really bring an excellent pay off. Im not going to spoil it for you, but as a horror fan it certainly hit the mark. This is the kind of gem low budget genre fans spend their time searching for and it's great when you find one that isn't some boring "found footage" thing like Blair Witch or ridiculous teens in a forest slasher rubbish. EDIT: I would like to state that in no way am I involved in this movie which has been harshly stated here by jga30328 in a uncalled for personal attack. I have asked him to remove this post or at least edit it. I liked the movie, he didn't. That's fair enough. Attacking someone directly because you disagree with a personal opinion doesn't seem right to me, especially when you've only reviewed one movie in 5yrs of membership lol.

trnjamesbond From the minute I started watching this film I was intrigued, we start with a detective leaning over the body of a woman in her early to mid thirties.(from my guess anyway)Then we watch another detective descend down a flight of stairs of what looks like to be a basement in a restaurant, the female detective moves down a long corridor and then the screen fades to black and the story picks up obviously in the past where the same dead woman is alive and well and is not lying on the floor.She is an immigrant from Mexico who is living and working in New York City to earn enough money to pay for her son's operation who is ill back in her home country. Things start to go a little awry in the restaurant as the film runs on, from things like shadowy figures and to ordinary objects around the restaurant that turn into more sinister things, such things like a garbage bag that looks like there is a body moving inside of it, but not quite, just plain creepy....Well I won't go into too much detail, but I would definitely recommend this for a watch to anyone who loves a great thriller and just a well balanced abstract at times tale. I wish I would of ran across this little gem a little sooner, it was wildly entertaining, and twisted macabre fun. Devour is a quaint little flick that I will definitely remember.