Devil's Due

Plot synopsis:
A young couple, Zach and Samantha McCall, are about to get married when Zach decides he wants to document their life together since Sam was raised in foster homes and doesn't know much about her history or roots. After their wedding, they go to the Dominican Republic for their honeymoon. During Carnival, the couple meet a fortune teller (DeMaris Gordon), who delcares Sam was "born from death" and repeats to Sam that "they have been waiting" for her. Creeped out, the couple quickly leave. On their way out, a strange man (the leader of a cult) watches them. They get lost on the way home and a cab driver (Roger Payano) offers to take them to a local club. There are numerous strange symbols marking the area on their way there and before they enter, the strange man from the fortune teller's watches them from afar. At the club, the same man from fortune teller's (leader of the cult) watches them and speaks with the cab driver (both cult members). Unaware they are being trapped, the couple is drugged and taken to an underground chamber beneath the nightclub where a ritual is performed and an unseen force fills the room.
The next morning, Zach and Sam wake in their hotel with no memory of the previous night.
A couple of weeks after the honeymoon, Sam discovers she's pregnant despite claiming to have taken birth control pills "religiously" ever since the wedding. Though shocked, Zach and Samantha are overjoyed and tell their family and friends the news. The couple later attend their first ultrasound scan where the doctor says that the baby looks healthy and Sam is due by the end of March. At that moment, the ultrasound screen goes static but recovers after a moment. Throughout the course of her pregnancy, Sam begins to experience nosebleeds, stomach bruising, cravings for raw meat (despite being a vegetarian) superhuman strength, telekinetic abilities and unexplained feelings of rage whenever she or the baby appear to be threatened. Also, Zach and Sam keep seeing odd-looking people watching them from afar. Sam becomes convinced something is seriously wrong with the baby and that they are being watched. After a second visit to the doctor, a new doctor (Robert Aberdeen) appears and performs an amnio after Sam appears nauseous. He has no answer as to the whereabouts of their original doctor and the couple is suspicious.
Before the couple return home, masked men who are part of the cult set up hidden cameras inside their home to monitor her progress and make sure she doesn't hurt the baby.
When Sam is eight months pregnant, the couple attend a holy communion at their church. Their usually friendly niece (Madison Wolfe) is oddly scared of Sam now and the priest (Sam Anderson) who officiated Zach and Sam's wedding looks at Sam during the service and violently coughs up blood. Later at home, when Zach is reviewing the communion footage he filmed, he sees the mysterious cab driver from their honeymoon sitting in a pew. He visits the priest in the hospital, who explains the symbol is related to summoning the Antichrist and warns Zach that the symbol is the gateway for the Antichrist and that the followers of the cult will dress the house in ash to prepare for the arrival. After he finds ash all over his house (and the cops won't do anything), Zach chases the people watching their house and finds out where they are living. He asks his sister, Suzie to stay with Sam while he breaks into the supposedly abandoned house at the end of his street where the cult is staying and there he finds the CCTV footage of his house and the missing ultrasound. He is almost caught by the cult when he goes to leave. Performing the ritual with the other cult members is the McCall's mysterious second doctor, as well as the man who has been watching their house and the cult leader (who they initially saw at the fortune teller's place and later at the club). Zach barely manages to escape, he has to avoid the cab driver on his way out.
Upon returning home, Zach finds the house surrounded by the masked men who have been watching them all along.
Inside, he finds Suzie dead and hears Sam scream as the house is being destroyed by some unseen force. He finds Sam in the baby's nursery standing in a trance-like state with a knife to her stomach (the knife was a mysterious gift at her baby shower). She's standing atop the cult symbol that she has carved into the floor secretly. Zach screams for her to stop, but she presses the knife to her stomach anyway and there is a violent blast of light. When Zach recovers, he finds Sam lying in her own blood with her stomach cut. She cries and wonders if the baby is all right before dying. Zach breaks down in grief before the cab driver and the second doctor appear. Zach begs the intruders to leave them alone, but the doctor takes the baby regardless. The baby glows a deep red as he takes it from Sam's body. The cult takes his camera and tapes, removing all evidence. Zach is arrested and interrogated by the police about the death of his wife and sister and disappearance of his child, crimes for which he looks guilty.
The ending shows another young couple, on their honeymoon in Paris, where the same cab driver offers them a lift.

Tags: paranormal, dark, cult, murder

Review:
As she nears her due date, can Zach still do anything to avert the diabolical fate that seems to await his wife and baby?Like many current horror films, "Devil's Due" is told through camera footage.
But during a time of what should be pure happiness soon turns into a nightmare as the couple find themselves being watched and Samantha begins exhibiting strange behavior.Devil's Due is yet another entry in the found-footage genre.
The two also have great chemistry together, which also helps the audience care for and root for the two characters.Devil's Due may be a huge snooze fest and won't leave a mark on the found-footage genre, but it at least has two decent lead actors to keep it from being a total disaster.My Rating: 3/10.
First of all, I am a big fan of the found footage supernatural/horror genre and love watching even the lesser acclaimed films.
Well that was nice to know and the only bit that made me feel good knowing that at least it gave a lot of people work but then I wonder if stating that was an indirect apology and their justification to make this dreadfully boring movie?TO be fair, the film is as polished as it can be for a found footage genre but its all pointless if it fails to engage us in the narrative.
If you haven't seen many horror films or supernatural films such as Paranormal Activity etc, then perhaps you might enjoy this more as long as you can stomach the vomit inducing newly weds for half of the movie.
I think the filmmaking duo did an exceptional job on this (their debut feature film) and found it to be much better than a lot of critics (and 'found footage' movie haters) have made it out to be.The story revolves around a newly wed couple, named Samantha and Zach McCall (played by Allison Miller and Zach Gilford), that go on their honeymoon in the Dominican Republic.
It's of course all caught on video and compiled (from many different sources) for the viewer.The film (like I said) got mostly bad reviews from critics and horror fans (that hate the 'found footage' genre).
It did get a few good reviews (though) from some scary movie aficionados (like director Eli Roth and the popular horror website 'Bloody Disgusting').
I enjoyed the movie; I love the horror genre and like 'found footage' flicks, when they're done right.
The movie is filmed entirely in first person similar to the Blair Witch Project but more like Cloverfield --- but unfortunately the point of view changes which makes it kind of confusing.
She then starts doing strange things like eating raw meat at a grocery store(despite being a vegetarian), causing preachers to cough up blood, and taking night walks into the wild to kill deer and munch of their innardsso naturally the husband starts questioning something awry is going on.you think??
On the last day of holiday, happy honeymooners Samantha (Allison Miller) and Zach's (Zach Gilford) life, takes an unexpected course when a spontaneous decision to experience one last night of Caribbean life, goes wrong.After their taxi driver vehemently coerces the couple to attend an underground party, they are lead to a mysterious location.
This is why the film works so well because we witness the nightmarish languish of this sweet and loved up couple.Many people will argue that the storyline was not original and whilst I agree there were many parallels between The Last Exorcism, The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, by taking what was lacking in similar movies, Devils Due has put its own unique stamp on this reality horror genre.I was only slightly disappointed by the ending as there was a lot of build up for a pretty predictable ending, but overall I was still impressed.
I won't deny it had it's moments but I'm not really into fake scares (i.d dog barking loudly) but I liked the main actors and their characters however it was all pretty predictable and the ending was so predictable it almost wasn't even worth watching.There were no twists and nothing you haven't seen but it was great to hear the audience's reactions and see people jump.
The first 20 minutes feels like someone forcing you to watch their bad home movies.
This genre is dead and some one needs to shovel dirt over it, I long for a good horror movie and this was not it The worst I have ever seen.
Filmed in the found footage style, a sub genre that has been frankly done to death, and although I felt that it wasn't entirely necessary for this movie they did at least do a reasonable job.
Acting is good & there are a few decent special effects thrown in but on the downside it is fairly slow for most part, the shaky camera work does become annoying at times & plot wise it doesn't offer much..
Walking distance, no plane.This found footage take on Rosemary's Baby did have some things going for it at the start, but it all went away as the film progressed.A happy pair of newlyweds, Zach McCall (Zach Gilford) and Samantha McCall (Allison Miller) go to Dominican Republic for a classic honeymoon get-away.
The pace is a little to slow you start to feel yourself drift from the film.& the acting is pretty well done to show a believable scene of a loving couple being happy together until all the strange things start happen some of it is extremely disturbing at time's.
As said it start off pretty well but as i said the story is very weak in the direction of the film, i found the scene to be a little long for the film's story with the pace of the film its a big let down as it start to get predictable its nothing special that we haven't seen before & i think its this is why people are getting fed up with Found footage film's because there isn't anything surprising or hasn't been done before.
All in all its not a bad film but its not a great film, it just could have been better, not that the actor's done a good job, it failed due to the writers of the film giving it weak & poor story-line with not plot other than a anti-Christ being born.This is one film you should just wait for the DVD instead of wasting money at the cinema..
wasting time open ending bad cameras view , awful plot worst movie i have ever seen in my life , when you bye a horror movie it should have a nice ending but not real ending if there is a new chapter or if the horror thing in it didn't vanish in this movie it will never end we don't know why or how or what is the problem in the first place the , and the father bad place in the movie seriously killing like he cant even try to fight bad , where is the good and bad in the movie where is the two strong thing fighting each other the one man is weak and nobody helped why the sister died why he didn't feel scary when he watched what happened to his wife he didn't even try to help here or finding out whats wrong with here he just felt crazy , and the drunk can feel a bit it should be more reality thank you for using zain.
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.
The film spends most of its time focused on the changes of the pregnant girl, at a deliberately slow pace that would help create suspense if we didn't predict what would happen so easily, if the ending wasn't so uninteresting and if special effects weren't so basic..
The familiarity of the material means that it's something of a bore to sit through.The film isn't strictly found footage in that the camera-work isn't supposedly taken from characters using video cameras and the like; instead, the ever-present camera shoots in a documentary style.
The "actors" act like they'd fit better in a commercial than in yet another bad horror movie.
there's little about this that makes sense as for why it was a found-footage movie other than being a gimmick to start with and it tends to leave the film really lacking.
What to Expect: Devil's Due. Why You Might Like It: This is an average horror/thriller that is filmed in the mold of Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity, etc.
It isn't terrible if you go into it expecting a very ordinary horror film.Acting/Casting: 5.5* Directing/Cinematography/Technical: 5*Plot/Characters: 4* Entertainment Value: 5* Total - 5.5+5+4+5 = 19.5/4 = 4.875*.
The trailer for this was good, too bad the film was not, I strolled down to my Cineworld in London to grab the Thursday showing of it this week, and from the first 5 minutes I was not liking it, the whole film is supposed to be shot on home cam recorders, like the way better Cloverfield, this film was visually unappealing, shoddy looking mess, ruining what really is an interesting Rosemary's Baby story.You try to get a hold of the characters in this tale of what is meant to be a horror film, but you just do not relate to anybody at all, I can't even say much more than don't bother and watch Rosemary's Baby and Cloverfield.I just cannot even justify this on Blu-ray or download if you are that way to see it, the sound design and music are so slight, they too, are wasted.
Come January, 'Devil's Due' arrives to buck that trend, in the worst possible way.Audiences are undoubtedly now tired of all of the following; found footage, found footage that must be justified by lazy dialogue explaining why a character must hold the camera at all times, evil cults, and cheap scares.
Among its few saving graces is a refreshing switch in camera technique to service the story better, which comes a relief when characters continue to mindlessly film the most terrifyingly inconvenient situations in which to hold a video device.Like one of the lesser instalments in the 'Paranormal Activity' series, the film descends into an all too familiar period of 'great' intensity before ignoring all loose ends as it closes with an obvious cliff hanger.'Devil's Due' is inspired, for sure, but only by a number of pictures that set the bar (low).
"Devil's Due" is a horror film about Zach and Samantha McCall, a newlywed couple who discover they're expecting their first child after a mysterious night during their honeymoon.The movie is directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, members of "Radio Silence", and stars Zach Gilford and Allison Miller.
The script features a good story, one that goes from love to horror as the movie progresses.Zach Gilford and Allison Miller give good performances, they manage to show the transformation of the relationship of their characters due to the impending arrival of their unplanned baby and the strange events that surround the due date.All this elements make "Devil's Due" a good horror film, a movie that has many scary scenes to keep you entertained!.
Devil's Due: 6.9/10 The film is about a couple that have a good time together, but when they start to have a baby that all changes.
Devil's Due (2014) 1/2 (out of 4) The latest awful horror movie has newlyweds Samantha and Zach (Allison Miller, Zach Gilford) excited to be expecting their first child but soon strange things start to happen to the woman and it appears something sinister is going on.
Devil's Due, on the other hand, cobbles together pieces of other works in hope of anyone who hasn't watched horror movies in years will find it amusing.Its use of found footage mechanic further confuses the plot, because some of the scenes shouldn't have been captured in the first place.
I'm a devout Horror fan and I make sure to give them a chance from time to time, but so far I am yet to find a film from these categories that I honestly enjoy.Devil's Due is seen through the eyes of a few camera (made possible by the script making sure the plot involves surveillance hidden cams placed inside the house).
Whatever the story might have had is all lost because of this stupid premise, lets make a movie about people filming them self all the time.
To start with looking at narcissistic people life is not interesting unless they end up paying for the egotistical mental defect.The plot is a lame copy of Rosemary's baby and the delivery of the story is done by some moron without any grasp of the style and thinks a shaky camera will cover for his lack of talent.If your intend is to study what not to do when attempting to make a movie is your goal then be my guest and what this piece of crap.
Shortly into the pregnancy, mother-to-be Allison begins having unusual symptoms, and it appears that she and her husband are being watched by some sort of secret society who are awaiting the birth of one of the "many" antichrists.Cleverly prefaced with scripture from John, "Devil's Due" sets out on a road oft-followed in the found footage sub genre of horror films, charting terrorized couples and Satanic magic wreaking havoc on suburbia.
The film doesn't make any claims to reality, doesn't ascribe to jump scares or a surprise ending, has shockingly worthwhile performances, and, most importantly, isn't actually a "found footage" movie at all.
My friends I saw it with missed the hidden cameras getting installed and the lapel camera the husband wears and so they didn't like it but if you watch closely it's all pretty well explained.This isn't the best movie I've ever seen but it's a lot better than people say..
The irony is how poorly this is scored on IMDb. I thought this was world's better than the awful Paranormal Activity: Marked Ones and the truly unfortunate thing is if they had bothered to make this just a regular old horror film it could have been terrifying and thrilling and a possible ten because the performances in the movie border on excellent believe it or not.
There are some pretty outrageous scenes of telekinetic ability and devil possession that would have best suited a regular horror film (I'm never going to let it go.) Still if you are a fan of the found footage genre...first of all...I'm sorry that you are but this one is of a much better quality than the other junk out there.
I didn't care why or how stuff was happening, I just new everything that was going to happen as I feel I've watched this movie 400 times, you go into a shop and there are at least 4 paranormal films a week that come out for £3 or more!
Before I went into the movie I knew that this film had a score of 4.8, so I chose to lower my expectations and hope that there would be some enjoyable moments, I have never been so wrong.I'll start off with the positives...the two main characters, Zach and Sam, are both reasonably well played by Allison Miller and Zach Gilford.
Instead of watching a horror film this genuinely feels like a documentary on pregnancy, with more time spent focusing on Sam feeling tired or in pain than anything else.
A typical found-footage supernatural horror movie that fails to capitalize the intriguing ROSEMARY'S BABY-like premise..
Upon finally watching it, I was like: Is he for real?WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?DEVIL'S DUE revolves around a newlywed young couple, Zach McCall (Zach Gilford) and Samantha McCall (Allison Miller) who both experience a mysterious lost night during their honeymoon vacation at Santo Domingo.
It's nothing more than your typical found footage and supernatural horror combo that you've seen many times before.FINAL WORDSAll I can say that DEVIL'S DUE is a total rip-off from the immortal classic, ROSEMARY'S BABY.
The found footage has been done to death since the Blair witch project, this film is particularly annoying as it is so dark you just can not make out what is going on.Plot, couple get married go on honeymoon, get into a taxi and ridiculously allow the driver in a strange town to take them to a seedy nightclub where she gets knocked up by the devil.
Are,go to a weird nightclub as advised by a shady cab driver......all the while filming it.They get home and soon they discover that they are pregnant.....all the while filming it.Soon the wife's hormones are everywhere and she starts eating raw meat, causing priests to have strokes, and generally being abhorrent.....all the while being filmed.Call it what you want, horror, misunderstood love story, macabre romance, nothing can hide the fact that it's just another found footage movie, albeit with different uses of the medium, but it still isn't anything to write home about.Its Rosemary's Baby for the ADHD generation, and if you've seen the more popular found footage movies (aka, the first ones were quite good, so the makers decided to cash in on them big time), you've seen everything on offer here.On the plus side,the acting isn't too bad, and the scares are kept to a minimum, concentrating more on the dissolving relationship of the couple.Eli Roth apparently loved it, but sewer rats like sewage, so it's really nothing to put on the poster.And the ending is ridiculous..
Devil's Due. I heard a bit about this scary movie, I assumed it was going to be a standard film, possibly the new Rosemary's Baby or something, it wasn't what I expected once I started it, and I saw low ratings by critics, but I stuck with it and watched.
What happens when you take all the scares, intrigue and great acting you saw in "Rosemary's Baby" and make it a poorly edited "found footage" film?