Summary
4 tech score
Zach Gilford and Allison Miller in “Devil’s Due”; photo courtesy of Fox
“Devil’s Due” (Fox)
Many years ago there was a movie starring Mia Farrow that was titled “Rosemary’s Baby.” The plot concerned a young married woman who was chosen to bear the devil’s child. It was a horror film of the highest order. Now we have “Devil’s Due” which is another movie about a young married woman chosen to bear the devil’s offspring. It is “Rosemary’s Baby” without the good actors, good script and good everything else. In total “Devil’s Due” is a dud.
In this movie a newly married couple goes to Santo Domingo on their honeymoon. While there they are induced by a cab driver to go to a club on the outskirts of the city. At this party the bride Samantha (Allison Miller) and the groom Zach (Zach Gilford) are drugged. They wake up the next morning in their hotel room with no memory of what transpired the night before.
Shortly thereafter they learn that Samantha is pregnant. The couple appears to be happy about this news. Still as the pregnancy progresses strange things began to happen, some of which are downright horrific. Zach begins to think something isn’t right but he doesn’t know what it is, but the audience does.
Everything in the movie is seen through the eye of a camera. Yes we are in handheld country again. You get that shaky, jostling look to every scene and it is annoying. Wait! It is more than annoying. It is grating.
Nothing about this movie works. The actors aren’t bad but they have nothing to work with in any way. Miller looks like a young Katie Holmes and this is depressing since it seems like only yesterday that Katie Holmes was the young Katie Holmes.
The film is rated R for violence and profanity.
“Devil’s Due” resembles “Rosemary’s Baby” because of the plot but that is the only connection. This movie is muddled and vague. Nothing in the film is resolved and the actors are left in a lurch because it appears the screenwriters just quit without writing a finale. The audience members are left shaking their heads and wondering what just happened.
There are a few scary scenes in the movie and that keeps it from being an absolute bust. Still there is not enough of anything to make this worthwhile viewing of any sort.
I scored “Devil’s Due” a satanic 4 out of 10.
