![]() This means that Quarterman and Helmuth don't have to do too much to stand out, and sure enough, Quarterman and Helmuth aren't any better than decent, but they have a certain light charisma about them before they take on some genuine acting range by the climax, and that helps in making the final act more effective and, by extension, the ending even more of a cop-out, which isn't to say that the final product leaves too much to ruin. It all comes down to a climax that, like the other set pieces of rising action, doesn't have as much bite as it should, but does deliver on as much, if not more intrigue than any preceding intriguing set piece, and for that, I'd like to give a bit of credit to Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth, the relative best performances of the film, which isn't saying much at all, considering that everyone else, while not bad, is blandly mediocre. ![]() This, of course, dilutes the already atmospherically tainted moments where something actually happens, like, say, an excorcism sequence, yet it's not like moments such as those are lifeless, for although direction and atmosphere fall flat, the general structure of the film's rising action set pieces have an audacitity and bruality to them that may go undercut by direcorial flaws, and rarely hit all that hard to begin with, but establish a degree of consequence, and with it, more intrigue than this film deserves. However, regardless of the borderline plotlessness that plagues this film and will be touched more upon later on in this review, the film isn't exactly aimless, as it has its sights set on certain points, it's just that it gets there so startlingly blandly that you barely even care by the time this film gets to where it aims to go. Though extremely formulaic and barely structured into an actual plot, this film's ideas are undeniably rather interesting in concept, thus creating a degree of immediate intrigue that sticks with the film for a little bit, only to dissipate after a while, once you come to realize that this film is going very few places very slowly. Still, as poor as this film is, it's hard to deny some strengths, however limited they may be. I always figured that Pee-wee demon inside him somewhere, it's just that I didn't expect for him to turn out to be that demon, though, now that I think about, it does explain a lot, which is something that you can't say about this film, or at least this film's ending. If nothing else, the song "Devil Inside" is less obnoxious than Suzan Crowley's Maria Rossi character, with all of her going around and talking about, "Connect the dots", which leaves me to think that she may not so much be possessed by Satan as much as she's possessed by Pee-wee Herman. ![]() Yeah, I'm not terribly crazy about that song, or INXS for that matter, but hey, at least "Devil Inside" is a better song than this is a film. "Look at them go, look at them kick, makes you wonder how the other half live the devil inside, the devil inside, every single one of us the devil inside!" Oh, come on, did you seriously think that I wasn't going to do that? That song reference is to me what found footage horror film cliches are to this film, I just couldn't had to do it.
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