Devil- Rental

Devil

Rental

After the bazillion movies I have seen in my many years one genre I have become tired of is the scary/horror type.  There seems to be two or three prototypes where they insert different actors and change the dialog a bit.  All the slasher movies where the heroine stabs the bad guy, drops the knife right beside him and slowly walks away.  Amazingly enough 110% of the time the bad guy gets up and comes at her again.  The funny part of this story is I LOVE Halloween.  My favorite holiday by far.  My scary decorations have sent more neighbor kids into therapy than Charlie Sheen has had STD's.

I rented Devil mostly because I have the Blockbuster deal where you can have two movies out at a time and there was nothing else.  Expectations were very low.

I won't say this is a great movie but I was pleasantly surprised.  Why they named it Devil is the big question.  By the end of movie you know why but it's not a name that get people flocking to the theater.
I guess they could have named it people stuck on an elevator with a demon but that probably wouldn't help either.

The movie is just that.  A mixed group of people get stuck in an elevator.  Every now and then the lights go out and when they come back on something bad has happened to one.  It plays better than it sounds.  Attempts to get them out gets delayed time after time.  No big name actors but several good character actors you will remember from this movie or that.

It's not a slasher movie or a scary from start to finish.  It has some scares and a good bit of suspense.  Overall I'd say it was well worth the price of the rental.