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| Devil | |
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 Teaser poster | |
| Directed by | John Erick Dowdle |
| Screenplay by | Brian Nelson |
| Story by | M. Night Shyamalan |
| Produced by | John Erick Dowdle Drew Dowdle M. Night Shyamalan Sam Mercer |
| Starring | Chris Messina Bojana Novakovic Bokeem Woodbine Logan Marshall-Green Jenny O'Hara Geoffrey Arend |
| Cinematography | Tak Fujimoto |
| Edited by | Elliot Greenberg |
| Music by | Fernando Velázquez |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10 million |
| Box office | $14,884,000[1] |
Devil (also known as The Night Chronicles: Devil) is a 2010 American supernatural thriller film based on a story by M. Night Shyamalan, written by Brian Nelson, and directed by John Erick Dowdle. The film was released on September 17, 2010, and is the first of The Night Chronicles trilogy,[2] which involves the supernatural within modern urban society.
Plot
A worker commits suicide by jumping from a building. As police investigate the matter, five strangers who have committed various sins in the past step onto an elevator located in the same building as the mentioned suicide.
The five strangers include: Ben (Bokeem Woodbine), a security guard with a violent past; Jane Cowski (Jenny O'Hara), an old woman who is a thief; Vince (Geoffrey Arend), a scam artist; Tony (Logan Marshall-Green), who served in the U.S. military; and Sarah (Bojana Novakovic), a gold digger.
Strange things begin to happen. Sarah is cut on her back and the other three almost immediately suspect Vince. Slowly, one by one, the five strangers start to die. First, Vince is killed by shattered glass which slices his jugular vein. Detective Bowden, realizing this is the building the man jumped from, investigates. Checking the guest-book, only four people missed their appointments. Sarah, Vince, Ben, and Jane Cowski. He begins to look into the elevator passengers' backgrounds, and soon becomes suspicious of Tony.
Meanwhile, security footage shows Jane stealing another woman's wallet and the office building's repairman falls to his death while trying to fix the elevator. Jane is killed next when an electric cord on the roof of the elevator hangs her. Sarah and Ben turn on Tony, while Bowden suspects that Sarah's husband hired Ben to kill her. A security guard inspects the basement, and is painfully electrocuted. The lights go out again and Ben's neck is completely twisted around. Thinking the other is the killer, Tony and Sarah prepare to stab the other to death, Bowden talks them down. But as Sarah takes out a shard of glass hidden in her back pocket, the lights once again go out and her throat is slashed. The mystery seems solved, when a tattooed woman tells Bowden that Tony is her fiance, and was at the building for a job interview. His full name is revealed to be Tony Janecowski.
The old woman appears behind Tony. It is now apparent that the old woman is the devil. Having killed off all the others, the devil says, "It's time for you to die now." Watching the CCTV, Detective Bowden is horrified, and in another twist, Tony confesses to Detective Bowden that five years ago, he killed his family while he was driving drunk. Having confessed and repented, the devil cannot kill him as he is no longer worthy of death. The doors open, and the old woman's body is gone. Following the events in the elevator, Detective Bowden, who had previously lost faith in God, finally regains his faith, and forgives Tony for his wrongdoings.
Cast
- Chris Messina as Detective Bowden
- Bojana Novakovic as Sarah
- Bokeem Woodbine as Ben
- Logan Marshall-Green as Tony
- Jenny O'Hara as Jane Cowski
- Geoffrey Arend as Vince
- Jacob Vargas as Ramirez
- Matt Craven as Lustig
- Joshua Peace as Detective Markowitz
- Joe Cobden as Dwight
- Caroline Dhavernas as Elsa Nahai
Production
In October 2008, Shyamalan announced, with the partnership of Media Rights Capital, that Devil will be made with the Dowdle brothers as the directors and Brian Nelson as the screenwriter.[3] A year later, filming started on October 26 in Toronto.[4] There was additional shooting for the film several months later in Los Angeles and Philadelphia.[5]
Story sources
Based on recent film clips, Ysamur Flores and the directors of Devil, John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, explain that the movie is based on a Devil's Meeting, which is a premise that the Devil is on Earth to test evildoers by tormenting them.[6]
Shyamalan acknowledged that the basic structure of the story was "an Agatha Christie nod."[7] In Christie's 1939 novel And Then There Were None, as in Devil, a group of people with guilty pasts are trapped in an isolated location and begin to die one by one. The final plot twist is also the same, with the villain being revealed as one of the group who was thought to have died towards the story's beginning.
Release
The film was set to have a release date on February 11, 2011, but was bumped up to September 17, 2010. The film's trailer debuted online on July 13, 2010. The trailer was attached with Inception, The Expendables, Salt, The Other Guys, Machete, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Last Exorcism,Takers, and Going the Distance.
Critical reaction
The film was not screened to critics in advance. [8]Devil has received generally mixed reviews. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 45% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 34 reviews, with an average score of 4.4/10.[9] Dennis Harvey of Variety.com gave Devil a lukewarm review, saying "Like the solid B-thrillers of yore that often outshone A-pics topping double bills, M. Night Shyamalan-produced Devil is nothing very special or original, but it gets the job done briskly and economically." [10]
Box office
The film came in third for the weekend of September 17-19, 2010, behind The Town and Easy A, taking $4,930,000 on Friday and $12,584,000 domestically for the weekend.[11]
Sequels
On June 23, 2010, Shyamalan announced the second film in The Night Chronicles, titled 12 Strangers at first, but later changed to Reincarnate. The film is about a jury discussing a case dealing with the supernatural. Chris Sparling is set to write the script and Daniel Stamm to direct.[12] Shyamalan has also confirmed that the story for the currently untitled third installment of The Night Chronicles is actually going to be taken from the unplanned sequel of Unbreakable.[13]
References
- ^ Box Office Mojo
- ^ M. Night's 'Devil' Moved Way UP to This September!
- ^ "Dowdle Brothers Team For Shyamalan's 'Devil'". Bloody Disgusting. October 28, 2008.
- ^ "The Dowdle Brothers Gear Up for 'Devil', First Casting!". Bloody Disgusting. October 16, 2009.
- ^ "Addition Shooting for M. Night Shyamalan's 'Devil'". Bloody Disgusting. June 21, 2010.
- ^ http://thedevilsmeeting.com/pop-culture/devils-meeting-myth-devil-legend.html
- ^ M. Night Shyamalan Explains Origins Of 'Devil', MTV.com
- ^ Devil Screening
- ^ "Devil Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
- ^ Variety Review
- ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=nightchroniclesdevil.htm
- ^ "Last Exorcism's Stamm on Board Shyamalan's Reincarnate". ShockTilYouDrop. September 15, 2010.
- ^ "Unbreakable 2 Story to be Used for Third Night Chronicles". ComingSoon.net. September 3, 2010.
