Devil 4K 2010

Just watched the movie, decided to become one of the 'pioneers' who will write a review of the movie 'Devil'.

The first thing I will note at once - it is not a horror movie. With a great stretch I will call this picture a mystical thriller with all the consequences, a little seasoned with life philosophy for sharpness.

The plot is simple and uncomplicated. Ordinary weather day, a major metropolis in the United States. A huge skyscraper, from which and into which, like ants, run back and forth office workers, in fact, ordinary mortals. A handful of strangers enter the elevator, which stops on the first floor, a button is pressed, and the elevator stops. After some very short time it becomes clear that no one is going anywhere, as one of the 'stuck' is the worst enemy of all mankind ... But who exactly he is - to be found out only at the end of the tape.

In fact, the movie is not something particularly extraordinary, masterpiece. The whole movie from the first to the last frame - shot in the framework of its modest genre - there is darkness, someone's screams, a couple of creepy deaths, in general, the movie keeps the tension well. Not to say that there are no minuses, I, as a big fan of horror for some reason remembered a few other movies, from which, as it seemed to me, the creators stole a little. I won't voice these my 'hallucinations' and déjà vu.

The difficult task, as it seemed to me, was in the dynamics of the picture - you must agree, it's not easy to keep the viewer from yawning and throwing popcorn at the screen, showing for 80 minutes the only elevator cabin filled with frightened passengers. But, here, I think, everything succeeded, by the way, I remember the movie '1408', in which also the action unfolded in a very limited space. Within the plot context, the creators drew the right card and successfully introduced the figure of a policeman investigating the incident with the stuck elevator; parallel developing lines 'outside the cabin'; competently made ending, with an interesting insertion from the 'past' of the main characters.

I was pleased with the absence of severed body parts, liters of blood, intestines hanging somewhere above the head and other nastiness, which so often began to be crammed into all horror movies, in order to try to at least something to scare the viewer. Or at least cause gagging. Thank God, or the devil then, that in the movie without this kind of 'clutter' did without. Everything is somehow within the framework, emphasized more on the psychological hopelessness of the situation. And with a special desire, you can be seriously frightened if you put yourself in the place of the protagonists.

In general, I would like to say that having such a small budget, the creators and everyone who worked on the creation of this movie, managed to make such a dynamic, interesting movie, with not the most banal storyline and ending.

I think a lot of people will like it.

True, I now go into the elevator with a little apprehension. I guess I should start taking the stairs after all. It's safer.