Devil’s Due (15) 89 mins **
The collective of horror
tinkerers known as Radio Silence (V/H/S)
deploy the found-footage gimmick better than anyone, but the trouble with their
wobblycam Rosemary’s Baby isn’t how
but what we’re watching. Until all hell breaks loose, we’re left to observe the
sort of gushy Everycouple whose posts you hasten past on Facebook, and the
ominous deviations from this norm – the priest coughing up blood with his
scripture, the crib sourced from Boden’s Baby Beelzebub line – prove silly
indeed. It’s as substantial as seeing The
Exorcist redone on Snapchat – and let’s not even consider the implication
of casting black and Latino performers as Satan’s minions, because clearly its
makers haven’t.
Devil's Due is in cinemas nationwide.
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