DEVIL SEED

Alex, a young American student, returns to the city where she studies to live with two friends. One evening, she accidentally enters a fortune teller's shop and, after having her future predicted, her mind and body begin to change. Alex will soon realize that she is coveted by a demon and will do everything to return to normal. In recent years, the exorcist horror genre has undoubtedly received substantial consideration from various film companies, as we have seen numerous movies on the subject, such as "The Last Exorcism," "The Rite," "The Possession," and many others. It is only now that a real small manual arrives, which explains, in the form of a film called "Devil Seed," how NOT to make a work on the subject. Undoubtedly, the titles mentioned above are not masterpieces and cannot all be considered successful, but here we are faced with a film that has nothing that can be seen as such and where the only novelty (on paper) is the vision of exorcism no longer from an external point of view but experienced directly by the film's protagonist. The "positive" aspects of the film stop here because we are faced with a stupid, boring, and repetitive film like few others. But let's go in order. The film begins with a mysterious exorcism done in the past and ended badly, then brings us into the life of three girls who live together (and who perfectly embody the classic teen horror stereotypes). Two of them, one night, end up drunk getting their future predicted by a sort of fortune teller. After this episode, without any apparent reason, a sort of persecution by a demon begins towards our protagonist, who, being a virgin, is coveted to be impregnated by the dark presence. From here on, the film becomes a set of (poorly executed) scary scenes proposed repeatedly, without any connection between them and leading to nothing until 10 minutes before the end, where we witness a tense and incomprehensible conclusion. The representation of the demon, needless to say, is one of the most banal imaginable, with sound and visual tricks that not only do not scare due to their predictability but also do not have the right timing to do so. The girl also begins to speak with the missing orc voice that sometimes transforms into an even more terrifying (not in the "good" sense) child's voice. Other great "classics" from genre films are not missing, such as climbing on walls, pale children who disappear, or the movement of the protagonist in a bridge-like manner that so scared the audiences of "The Exorcist," proposed here, obviously, in a tragicomic key. The effects are all in CGI that offer true moments of involuntary ridiculousness, especially the girl passing with her head unnaturally tilted behind her friends or when the same starts flying over her bed. Nothing to save even in the screenplay, which sees the characters behaving in such an unnatural and stupid way that they are not minimally credible, let alone irritating (the girl, as soon as she sees that something is wrong with her, the first thing she does is search "demons" on Google). The cast consists of unknown and unconvincing actors, starting with the protagonist Michelle Argynis, followed by her two friends played by Shantelle Canzanese ("Son of the sunshine") and Vanessa Broze ("Kenneyville"). The director and screenwriter is Greg A. Sager, here in his first feature film. In conclusion, I strongly advise against "Devil Seed" for any reason; it would be an hour and a half wasted.