Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

If you've seen more than a handful of thrillers, you will almost certainly have seen this plot line before; it's just the basic stalker theme only set in a school. This idea has been used in many movies previously, and was also the main theme in the excellent 'Wild Things' that was also released in 1998. Devil in the Flesh is a very low key film and actually feels like a TV movie at times; yet despite this, it does at least manage to stay entertaining enough for it's ninety minute duration, which is quite an achievement when you consider how unoriginal it is. The plot focuses on a young girl named Debbie Strand. After her parent's house burns down in mysterious circumstances, she is sent to live in a different town with her religious grandmother. She also has to start a new school and gets that same locker every new girl in American school gets (the sticky one that needs a man to come over and punch it). Anyway, it's not long before she starts to develop a crush on hunky English teacher Mr Rinaldi, and she'll stop at nothing to get what she wants.I have to admit that I have a track record of enjoying low key thrillers like this one, and for what it's worth; Devil in the Flesh is not too bad. It does suffer from a poor script that fails to flesh out it's central characters properly and doesn't contribute a logical narrative, so at times the film just seems to jump from one thing to next without a lot of cohesion. There's also a fair few clichés on display too, which is somewhat annoying and tiresome. On the plus side, the acting is rather good. Rose McGowan was one of my main reason for tuning in and she does the bitchy weird chick thing very well. Starring opposite is Alex McArthur as her crush who also performs well in his role as well as well as Peg Shirley as the overbearing grandmother. The plot moves along at a steady pace for the first half and gets going properly in the second, albeit a bit too fast at times. There's a twist towards the end which is both highly predictable and very unbelievable. Overall, this is a long way from brilliant; but it has a few good elements and there's worse films of this ilk out there.

Debbie: Spare the rod, spoil the child - is that the idea? Is this how you raised my mother? No wonder she was such a f*cking bitch! Debbie(hitting her grandmother with a cane): Oh, I'm sorry, grandmother. Did I hurt you? Let me make it better! Fiona: Please, have mercy... Debbie: F*ck mercy! You don't have any mercy. My mother never had it, my father didn't have it, and I don't have it. It's a family thing!Typical story of a girl from a dysfunctional family. Rose McGowan(Debbie) is place with her grandmother after her mother and a teacher, who was involved with mother, mysteriously die in a fire.Grandmother (Peg Shirley) and Debbie don't mesh well as she is a hyper-Christian. Soon bodies start piling up as Debbie has her eyes on another teacher.Sherrie Rose plays the teachers girlfriend and provides some breast baring blazing-hot love scenes.For Rose McGowan fans only.

" I was glad the directors made this film with a message that abused children are scorned the rest of their life and therefore the pattern showed how the attitude of revenge is taken out on everyone in society. " You're right. It just shows that it's OK to kill people. Just kidding.The movie is pure predictable cheese, though. I only watched it because i'm a charmed fan, and rose McGowan was in charmed.I can't believe this movie was actually two hours. It was so predictable, I was able to tell when she was getting ready to kill someone.This is a good movie if you like those 'femme fatale' movies in which everyone dies. But if you're looking for a 5-star movie, this isn't it.

Her pale, Saltine skin contrasts from her candy red lipstick, which seems to be the most important prop of the film forget "schindler's list" and "glitter", hollywood should remaster this as a special edition 2 disc collector's set Why didn't she win the Oscar?!?! McGowan has such grace and posture on screen as the late Gloria Stuart (or at least I think she's dead) It's good to know that the now superstar of the hit soap opera "charmed" once was in a hit drama this a perfect cross between "braveheart" and "who's that girl" with a little "from justin to kelly" to throw in for proper measure the scene with clint eastwood will blow you away a love scene has not touched me as well as one has with "psycho" GO ROSE!