The Devil's Curse

i bought Thís, watched it four or so times, and still cannot find any reason why this was even produced. there is no plot, half baked personality developments or anything of redeeming value. the movie was as phony cardboard box tunnels . maybe all that spray sealant got to these folks?

The Good+ MyAnna Buring: a decent actor, and 7 years ago (when this was filmed), she was at her peak cuteness. It's a well-rounded cast... competent and verging on believable, but certainly no Oscars here.+ The chosen abandoned buildings (filming locations) were decent. That's a quarter of the battle in a low budget production like this.+ Credo doesn't rely on gore, makeup, or special effects to induce creepiness. If you need gore, look elsewhere.+ The audio is fitting (adds to the story and is spooky). Glad the producers got some things right.+ This is *not* an instance of the "I could have filmed something scarier with my home video camera" complaint that you hear some people voice out of ignorance. No, you very likely couldn't have. And I've seen films where atmosphere was lacking; this isn't one of those. The director here knew what she was doing.+ Extras. Not only is there bonus material on the disc -- it's also fun to watch! Thus 3 stars instead of 2. Far too many studios/ producers these days feel it acceptable to release DVDs without extras. If one streams a video, one doesn't expect extras, but half the reason to purchase a DVD is for extras!The Bad- The plot is formulaic (except for the twist).- The dialogue is uninspired. There is no acceptable excuse for this...- I wasn't expecting to be pleasantly surprised, but I was admittedly hoping to be. The plot twist was just not enough.- Scott is a caricature of a socially introverted young man. Are there guys out there who are actually like that?- Jock is a caricature of a socially extroverted young man. Unfortunately there's probably guys out there actually like him.The Ugly- Would have worked well as a short film. Instead, it was stretched out "like butter scraped over too much bread." At 88 minutes it was still 44 minutes too long.- The title. Not to be mistaken with Curse of the Devil (1973)["A man whose ancestors executed a witch is turned into a werewolf by modern-day descendants of the executed witch"], the original title for The Devil's Curse was Credo... it probably was changed when the film got picked up in the US because Credo is a stateside mobile phone network. In the very least, it should have been "Belial's Curse" (since Belial was a "character" in the film).Other comments: It is rated R for "Language and Violent Content." If like me you were hoping to see more of MyAnna Buring in the obligatory shower scene, you are out of luck.Final Verdict: 2.5 stars = proceed at your own risk.

b movie ,but there are plenty of scares.

The Devil's Curse is a horrible film. I can't remember the last time I watched a horror flick that had *zero* suspense and atmosphere. I seriously mean it- NO suspense, NO atmosphere, and nothing remotely interesting about any of it.A group of college kids spend time in an abandoned building. You could seriously let a raccoon with rabies loose in the building and I'm willing to bet that would offer more in the way of actual fear than what this poor excuse of a film provides.I simply can't recommend it to anyone. You'd have to be the most desperate person in the world to watch it.I'm talking about someone who's been on a deserted island for over 15 years and once they came back to civilization, they're absolutely dying to see a horror film more than anything else. That's the only person who'd get any kind of enjoyment out of this crap.Yes, there's a twist at the end of the movie. That doesn't make up for the other 90% of painful boredom I had to experience.Please skip it.

There is one thing right that is mentioned at the start of the movie but at the same time what is mentioned also plays on people's fears(the point of a horror movie), This movie tries to play a Catholic angle then gets into a What's Going on/Whodunit?, It is boring and when the End comes there is a twist if it can be called that,the only thing correct is Yes Evil Exists but you should never play with it, at least the movie didn't have gore but it fails miserably as a snorefest.

<strong>Credo</strong> (Toni Harman, 2008)I've gotten a string of pretty crappy low-budget horror flicks recently, and thus <em>Credo</em> was something of a surprise. It doesn't quite get the whole "here's how you set up a twist ending" thing down, but it's well-acted and atmospheric, and it's obvious someone put some real thought into this script.Plot: five friends get kicked out of their London flat after a party turns sour. There's Alice (<em>The Descent</em>'s MyAnna Buring), the studious one, who spends all her time cramming for finals; party-boy Jock (<em>The Matrix Reloaded</em>'s Clayton Watson), an American exchange student whose antics got them thrown out in the first place; Jazz (<em>The Bill</em> regular Rhea Bailey), Jock's sometime girlfriend; Scott (<em>The Complete Map of the Universe</em>'s Mark Joseph), an electronics whiz with a horrible crush on Alice; and Timmy (<em>Just Ines</em>' Nathalie Pownall), Alice's best friend. Alice, of course, retreats to the library instead of looking for another place to stay, but when it closes and she's sitting in an all night coffee shop, she gets a call from Scott saying Jock has found them another place to stay. Turns out he has a friend who does security at an abandoned monastery where, urban legend has it, five divinity students tried to summon Belial, after which four committed suicide (or the demon made it look that way) and the fifth went crazy. Needless to say, there's a reason the place has stood abandoned since...<em>Credo</em> is Harman's only feature film; she normally makes direct-to-video how-to stuff about baby and child care. Which makes this even more surprising, and makes me wonder if I don't give the actors enough credit sometimes for the quality of a film; perhaps as long as you have a competent team behind the cameras, it <em>all</em> comes down to how good your acting talent is. And so you take a low-budget horror film and stock it with competent behind-the-scenes staff and then load up on decent-to-really-really-good acting talent and you come up with something that should really be a winner. For some reason, the Brits seem to excel at this (<em>Long Time Dead</em> and <em>Lie Still</em> immediately come to mind), and <em>Credo</em> is another good example. When it comes right down to it, the effectiveness of the atmosphere was pretty easy to pull off; you just keep things half-dark (thankfully, lighting techs Martyn Culan and Joel Rainsley understand the difference between keeping things dark and making this too murky to actually see; this is little surprise, given that Culpan has recently worked on slightly bigger-budget films like <em>The King's Speech</em> and <em>Four Brothers</em>) and add some spooky sounds and hey, instant atmosphere. What makes it work, or not, is how the characters react to it, and as long as you've got good enough actors, you're gold. Similar, you've got this script, and it's pretty darned good, and you throw bad actors at it, they're going to mess up the timing and delivery and all that jazz. You get actors who can really understand it and, well, you get this.I should mention that a number of people seem disappointed/confused by the ending. You'll need to pay attention, and it is designed to be confusing there for a few minutes, but it makes absolute sense once you think about it. (Hint: take the first sequence at face value, and then pay very close attention to the last spoken line in the film, a flashback to an earlier scene, which explains the entire mechanism.) We're not talking timeless cinema here, but taken for what it is, it's quite good. ***

Der Film an sich ist nicht schlecht,hat nur herzlich wenig mit Teufel und Flüchen zu tun.Also wieder KEIN Horrorstreifen,sondern ein Thriller.Wenn man sonst keine neue DvD mehr da hat ausser dieser,kann man den Film ankucken.Oder man zieht sich einen guten Horrorstreifen rein,den man schon paarmal gesehen hat-was ich eher vorschlagen würde.

Der Film ist in allen Bereichen durchschnittlich.Die Charaktere bekommt man in (fast) jedem Teenie Slasher genauso gezeichnet. Ein Nerd, ein unsympathischer Möchtegernmacho, die kühle Heldin, die in sich gekehrte Außenseiterin und das 08/15 Partyluder. Also in diesem Bereich schonmal nichts Neues.Story auch wie gehabt...eine Handvoll Studenten begeben sich verbotenerweise in ein altes, verlassenes Haus und werden dann dahingemeuchelt.Schlecht ist der Film nicht, nur hat man das alles schon etliche Male besser, aber auch schlechter gesehen.Wie gesagt...Durchnittsware, die man sich ruhig mal anschauen kann, aber nicht muss.

Ein wahres Meisterwerk, das sicherlich nicht jeder zu schätzen weiß. Mit "jeder" sind Horrorfilm-Freunde gemeint, die etwas Handfestes a la Lovecraft bevorzugen - auf Dt. ist "Dagon" empfehlenswert -, sofern einem H.P.L. überhaupt BLUTIG (Ivan Zuccon -gähn!) genug ist.Der reichlich triviale dt. Titel und das (einzigartige) Cover der hier vorgestellten DVD täuschen ebenso sehr über den Inhalt hinweg, wie "Belial, der Meister der Täuschung", es in diesem Film tut: eine mehr als kurze Rückblende ist alles, was mit der "äußeren Form" dieser DVD zu tun hat. Womit es bei diesem Film in Wahrheit geht, ist eine sehr intelligente wie auch unkonventionelle Form von Horror, sehr subtil und... Meistens folgt nach 80 Minuten, in denen so gut wie nichts passiert - das heißt in diesem Fall aber nicht, dass es an Spannung fehlt - ein Ende, das entsetzliche Langeweile mit erlesener Blödheit zu toppen versucht. Hier ist es definitiv NICHT so.Ich dachte, ich hätte das letzte Exemplar ergattert... Wie auch immer, auf alle Fälle bin ich froh, dass ich, im Gegensatz zu grenzenlosen Frech- und Dummheiten wie "Der Exorzismus der Anneliese M." - das ist das wahre Grauen (grins) - einen Film wie den hier beschriebenen gesehen habe. Auch die Farbgebung (schwarz/weiß, rot/blau) ist alles andere als 0815. Selbst wenn bei den sch./w.- Sequenzen von Filmen wie "The Blair Witch Project" oder "Paranormal Activity" abgekupfert wurde, was in Anbetracht des hier Gebotenen durchaus legitim ist, gehört der Film zum Besten, was es im Bereich Horror/Mystery gibt: alles in allem ein ausgezeichneter Film.