Devil May Call
Devil May Call
R | 29 March 2013 (USA)
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A blind young suicide-hotline operator descends into a night of unrelenting terror when an obsessive caller turns out to be a serial killer.

Reviews
Greenes Please don't spend money on this.
RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
darthvoice So, this was just a bad film all around. Literally the only redeeming thing about this movie, the lead, she was at least a decent actress. That said, there are a few points I would like to bring up to the film's director that may help in future endeavors: 1) When crafting a film that features a killer played by one of the potentially most scary people in the business, it helps to create an air of mystery around his character. This adds menace and anticipation to the role and makes for a much more suspenseful film. The problems became apparent in the opening scene. The first mistake, showing the antagonist's face in the opening scene, by doing this, you immediately erase any possible buildup of menace. If this character has been murdering women for who knows how long, rather than showing his face, perhaps, while the phone call is progressing, show missing persons flyers of his victims while obscuring his face.2) Showing his face in the opening, then inexplicably going into first person from his view made no sense. If you're going to have a fully visible and known killer, stick to third person, low angles, all of the high angles of the killer and first person killed the purpose of the film.3) In the office confrontation scene, why was the main character crawling on hands and knees through glass WHILE calling out the killer's name? If she wanted to confront him, she could have easily just stood up rather than unnecessarily ran her hands over broken glass...4) Finally, continuity is the key to good film making. Once the power is out and the characters use the stairs to go fix the power box, the elevator working made no sense. I understand that it was the central point of that scene, but even mentioning that it was on backup would have alleviated any issues I had.
Leofwine_draca DEVIL MAY CALL is another entry in the long-running sub-genre of "blind women in peril" movies. Highlights of this sub-genre include the likes of WAIT UNTIL DARK, BLIND TERROR, and many others, but this insipid piece is even worse than the recent cheese of PENTHOUSE NORTH. The grey, washed-out cinematography is the perfect accompaniment to the blandest of story lines. A hotline operator finds herself stalked by one of her clients, a deeply disturbed guy with murder in mind. He turns up at her place of work one night, and murders ensue...Where to start with this film? Everything's wrong about it, from the forgettable acting to the one-dimensional characters (including much of the 'cannon fodder' supporting cast), poor script, silly kill scenes, and an almost entire lack of menace throughout. Corri English is acceptable in the central role - playing a blind character is never easy - but everyone else is poor. This includes B-movie starlet Traci Lords and Tyler Mane (X-MEN), the latter playing the rather uninteresting killer. Despite the short running time, this goes on and on for what seems like an age, until an ending which cuts things off abruptly just when it was getting interesting.
Bloodmarsh Krackoon 'Devil May Cry' would have worked better as a short in an anthology film, like John Carpenter's 'Body Bags.' But as a feature length horror film, it falls short.The whole serial killer calls into a hot line plot has been done a few times now, and even those films haven't managed to do it right. 'Psycho 4' comes to mind, but even a dying Anthony Perkins is still more frightening than Tyler Mane is here. The rest of the cast is easily forgettable, other than the ''great'' Traci Lords, who manages to land her roles thanks to her beauty (which has long passed her by, unfortunately.) Seriously, though, Traci, you look terrible, and you couldn't land a role in a high school play, based on your acting ability, if your life depended on it.'Devil May Cry' goes on entirely way too long, because you can already guess what's coming next. Tyler Mane, as the films villain, is simply awful - he spends his screen time limping around aimlessly, calling people bugs/insects (Frightening, I know.) But thanks to his height and body size, he'll keep landing roles - especially if Rob Zombie continues to destroy the 'Halloween' series.Random Ramblings of a Madman: When Traci Lords and Tyler Mane end up being your films most memorable actors/characters, it's safe to say you have failed miserably. 'Devil May Cry' is major snooze fest with wooden actors/characters, and cheesy dialogue.
pbghgirl If you're looking for a movie to make you jump out of your seat this is it. The setting in a dilapidated building at night really adds to the creepy factor. Corri English is really convincing in her portrayal of a blind woman and her confidence while roaming around alone makes for a terrifying movie. I wanted to yell at her to be careful - a lot. Van Hansis is great as Jess. He's the typical sensitive insightful guy in a helping profession who you'd want on your side against a killer. There is one scene when he talks about being a bully and, in my opinion, it was the best "non-scary" scene in the film. Tyler Mane is his usual scary self and the stunt work in the scene with him and Van is pretty great. Check this one out if you want to be creeped out.