Devoured (2012) (Movie Review)
Directed By: Greg Olliver
Starring: Marta Milans, Kara Jackson, Bruno Gunn
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Lourdes is a young woman that works at night cleaning a restaurant. All the money she made is for her son that lives in her hometown with her mother. We know very little about Lourdes son, only that he is sick and Lourdes is working every night and sending money to help her son and find a cure for his illness. Suddenly, Lourdes starts seeing visions in the restaurant where she works, in her little apartment. These visions, her evil co-workers and her son apart from her, all this stress Lourdes out and she began questioning herself who wants to hurt her? Or if all of whats happening is really happening or not.
Here we have a woman coming to another country in order to make money to send back to her home country and get her kid and operation. We kind of see how this ends up, so the movie is back tracking a bit. We start, however, when she first arrives and, of course, the people where she works are horrible people. Actually, most the people she runs into aren’t very good people. When we follow this character we see some rather creepy and eerie things. We also have some twists that unfortunately you will probably guess more times than not. Still, there is an effort here and that is clear to see and we can’t look over that. And, there is a main thing that is twisty you might not actually guess, which is very good.
There are some jump scare here and there. Without a lot in the way of effects and being somewhat a ghost story at heart, the film did need something like jump scares and it makes very good use of them. The movie has a good lead and that helps. The film also looks really good. I think it’s an alright film, nothing here is mind-blowingly good, but is a nice watch that is just a little typical at different parts of it. It is a bit of a drama, but there is enough horror elements to hold everyone over, I think. Maybe a little generic in spots, but there is a last twist that makes things for the film in a way.
