The name that most people are associating with the new horror flick Devil is its producer, one M. Night Shyamalan. The auteur behind two great films (The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable) and several... let's say underwhelming ones (The Village, The Happening, Lady in the Water), M. Night has now turned his sights towards producing a series of chillers known as The Night Chronicles, and Devil is officially Chapter 1. It only makes sense that Shyamalan's name would be the one earning the most attention, which leaves director John Dowdle (Quarantine) in an unenviable position indeed. But the name that most genre fans should be focusing on is that of the screenwriter: Brian Nelson -- also known as the guy who penned the excellent script for Hard Candy, and then followed that up by adapting 30 Days of Night for the big screen. And rather well I might add.
As you've no doubt already discovered from the non-stop trailers and commercials, Devil is about five strangers who find themselves stuck in a broken elevator. If that's not scary enough, it seems that every time the lights flicker off for a few minutes... one of the quintet ends up dead. Rather nastily, I might add. But who is the killer? Since you already know the title of the film, one can assume that there is a biblically unpleasant influence exerting itself within the blood-drenched elevator, which does add a little extra spice to the stew. The murders gradually get more elaborate, and of course the survivors are intent on blaming one another.
