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The Devils Door
USA 2016
produced by Gordon Price, Elisa Kirby, William Busy, Rick King, Matt Lockhart for Chapter 11 Films
directed by Gordon Price
starring James Shiels III, Billy Cobb, Ricky D'Alonzio, Joanna Burke, Malik Smith, Jenn Sparx, Johnny Trash, Gordon Price, DeAnna Garcia Quintana, Chelsia Simmons, Chris Wyatt, Shawn Biery, Leo Jaramillo, Kyle Douthy, Bryan Hersey, Rich Burke, Matthew Herzog
written by Gordon Price, special makeup effects by Elisa Kirby, Jenn Sparx, James Shiels III
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A serialkiller whose m.o. includes clobbering his victims to death with
a baseball bat and cutting their still beating hearts out of their bodies
is roaming town ... and leaving the police baffled. Pretty much their only
clue is a legend from the 19th century when a man (James Shiels III)
struck a deal with the Devil (Billy Cobb) where sacrificing a woman every
fortnight would keep him out of hell - but that's really nothing more than
an old wife's tale ... or is it? Enter Bill (James Shiels III again), a
veteran returning from Afghanistan with a severe trauma after having been
held by the Taliban for 6 months, and having been made their chief
executioner by their leader (Billy Cobb again), being forced to clobber
other American hostages to death ... with a baseball bat. Bill has
eventually freed himself by clobbering his capturers to death, but has
been unhinged ever since. But now he thinks he has seen said Taliban
leader with a baseball bat and a presumably dead body, and he reports it
to the police. Detective Young (Ricky D'Alonzio) though is quick to smell
something fishy, and he's quick to suspect Bill himself to be the killer,
even if he might not be aware of it. But he's also a man spiritual enough
to take that old legend into account ... and the conclusions he draws from
all of this might lead to utter disaster ... Basically, The
Devils Door is a movie that's pretty raw and gloss-free in its
depiction of the horrors it shows, and - despite a somewhat convoluted
backstory - very straightforward in its narrative ... and that's a good
thing in this cast, as it takes indie horrors back to its grindhouse roots
without any "postmodern" additives, ill-fitting irony, or
out-of-place political correctness, instead giving the audience the raw
deal with many well-places shocks, some genre-immanent ugliness, bits of
nudity, and no directorial pretentions whatsoever. Maybe not a film for
everybody, but wildly enjoyable for the genre fan! And if this
has at all gotten you interested, you can rent or buy The Devils Door
here: https://chapter11productions.pivotshare.com/media/the-devils-door/46977
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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