Best movie of this year hands down!

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

There's not a lot to say about this. It is similar to Rosemary's Baby. The acting was decent but there was a lot of shaky camera footage. The plot could have been more solid. I didn't think it was all that bad but I probably won't be seeing it again.

Devils Due (2014) is a pretty poorly done found footage horror movie. The found footage horror sub genre has grown since Paranormal Activity came out in 2009, a movie that I loved and thought was very well put together. And I thought it's sequel was good too, but this one just doesn't cut it. The plot centers around a newlywed couple and strange occurrences that take place on their honeymoon. The couple is taken to a club by a taxi driver, they have a little too much to drink, then are taken to a creepy place where a satanic ritual is performed on the wife. They return home and she finds out that she is pregnant, and from there the coupe becomes increasingly aware of what's really going on. Things happen after she gets pregnant involving the hurting of others around them that alarm them that something truly terrible is happening. The writing is very average and mediocre, nothing special at all as far as the script goes. The acting actually isn't bad from Zach and Sam, I really liked them as the leads. That's actually the only aspect of the entire movie that I liked, the leads. It wasn't scary, or really interesting at all. Nothing about this film was interesting or fulfilling in the least. And with all that considered, I give Devils Due a 3/10.

Sometimes really bad concepts/films get funded by a fluke. However, they rarely get a distribution deal. Somehow, this horrible, amateur piece of crap managed to achieve both tasks. The cinematography is by far, the worst I have ever seen in a film with a budget over $100k. I felt embarrassed for everybody involved in this project but especially for the cast. They made a really good effort and I can only presume they protested against the contrived dialogue and forced scenarios where they had to ad lib but the Director must have been a jackass and didn't listen to them. Please don't encourage the cable networks to buy other pieces of crap like "Devil's Due" by watching it. I turned it off after 45 minutes due to the dizziness caused by the horrible camera work.

Even a decade and a half after The Blair Witch Project was released, found footage films still plague our cinemas. What was once a nice niche to get away from the giant blockbusters, has slowly, but surely, become a virus to us all. That may be a bit harsh to a film like Devil's Due, but the whole genre in general needs a break.. and fast.**Warning, this review does contain spoilers** Watching these horror found footage films nowadays, especially Devil's Due, made me ponder what it would have been like in a nice short cut of 15 minutes in the V/H/S franchise. Clocking in at only an hour and 20, the film still finds ways to stretch. Instead of the wedding, why not start at the honeymoon? Instead of Zach (Zach Gilford) the good intentioned husband making his 4th call on the phone explaining his wife is acting strange, why not move the plot along? Instead of the first doctor, why not start with the creepy one? Yes, the second doctor is creepy, but that's also another problem. Subtly is not the films strong suit. Oh, the Priest is coughing, because he's near the demon baby. I see... And now Samantha (Allison Miller) is turning into Tetsuo from Akira? Because the Anti-Christ growing inside her just isn't interesting enough.Found footage also ruins everything that's happening always. The film does try to do different things, "mini chest cam" for one, but what person would see their pregnant wife in incredible pain or smashing the windows of a stranger's car and not drop the camera? And what 7 year old walks around in complete darkness with night vision? I get the spooky element everyone on set wants to make, but it's just puzzling and not well thought out. In this scene the girl is scared by Samantha, which could have been, again, subtly expressed in the next scene when she sees the girl again the next day at the church, but, they decided to go with the coughing priest instead. The cab driver from the beginning of the film in the church was a nice touch, but these are too few and far in between.Though the whole premise is found footage, the question begs, who found the footage. The cult seemingly takes everything, setting up Zach, so who's showing the footage? The Cult? Did they get their hands on the interrogation of Zach as well? Was one of the cops part of the cult? It sure was nice of them to edit the thing together though, for us all to learn about their Devil cult. Because in other found footage movies, the footage is usually found by someone other than the killer. Who, in retrospect, probably wouldn't turn it over to the public for viewing. A Demon in Paranormal Activity, after killing a family, wouldn't use Final Cut and say, "Hey everyone, look what I did." Maybe they would, Demon's are kind of jerks.The good is definitely Allison Miller. She works with what she has and runs away with it. I hope she has a future, because she's really the only redeemable thing to the film. Much better films are Rosemary's Baby, The Omen and even To the Devil a Daughter.