Devil
2010
**½
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Cast: Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Geoffrey Arend, Bojana Novakovic, Jenny O'Hara, Bokeem Woodbine, Jacob Vargas
Three men and two women are trapped inside a broken lift, and one of them appears to be the devil incarnate. As the trapped sinners drop dead one by one, the survivors and the detectives at the scene struggle to understand what they are witnessing. Producer M. Night Shyamalan planned this as the first part of The Night Chronicles trilogy. He also concocted the story, which has his fingerprint all over it. This is a short, neat and modestly entertaining horror movie which, as usual, is sure not to leave any loose ends. While the religious ingredients add a nice twist to an Agatha Christiesque murder mystery, the omnipotent devil pretty much removes the element of surprise from the proceedings.
