This is a film review of Devil.

Movie review: 'Devil' scare tactics hardly worth a rise

“From M. Night Shyamalan” no longer portends positive results, and true to form, his producer’s credit on Devil accurately reflects the generally cruddy nature of this B-movie, in which five people get trapped in a high-rise elevator – and one...

The instinct to beat up on Devil sight unseen is because M. Night Shyamalan’s name is now synonymous with cheap third-act twists.

The underlying premise of Devil is the kind of thing Alfred Hitchcock could have used to develop a tightly-wound, pulse-pounding suspense movie. Unfortunately, Hitchcock is dead and the two men shepherding Devil through its production are not nearly...

PG-13 • 1 hour 20 min • 2010

A group of strangers takes a ride with the devil on an elevator to hell.

From the slush pile of M. Night Shyamalan comes Devil, a silly horror-thriller about a group of people trapped in an elevator with Satan incarnate. It’s Agatha Christie meets Final Destination as one of them picks off the others, one by one, whenever the elevator car loses power. (The effects are always the same: A…

This fun ride on an elevator won't lose a thing on DVD, writes JIM SCHEMBRI