Devoured

I hadn't heard about this 2012 movie titled "Devoured" from writer Marc Landau and director Greg Olliver prior to stumbling upon it by random chance here in 2024. I have to say that I was initially intrigued by the movie's cover, and with it being a movie that I had never seen (or heard about), of course I opted to sit down and watch it. The storyline in the movie was slow paced. Half an hour into the movie and nothing interesting or worthwhile had happened, and that made for a very slow paced and boring narrative. And I have to admit that I was struggling with finding the will to keep watching the movie, because it just didn't appeal to me. I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, but it should be noted that leading actress Marta Milans (playing Lourdes) definitely carried the movie quite well, despite the fact of having next to nothing to work with in terms of an interesting script, character gallery and dialogue. "Devoured" was a swing and a miss of a movie in terms of it entertaining me. And this is definitely not a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. My rating of "Devoured" lands on a very generous three out of ten stars.

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DEVOURED opens with a police investigation into the death of a woman in a restaurant. The rest is the story of what led up to it. Her name is / was Lourdes (Marta Milans), a hard working mother, sending her wages home to El Salvador for her desperately ill son. As the nights pass, Lourdes begins to see haunting images and seemingly supernatural phenomena. The more we learn about her, the darker her life becomes. This all leads to the final shocker, when the truth is revealed and everything spins out of control. DEVOURED is a suspenseful creeper with several jolts and twists. Milans is fantastic in her unhinged role, and the finale is just plain bonkers!...

I have just finished viewing this movie, saw the tailer in youtube and it seemed like a standard scary movie for a Friday night, you know just to pass time. You see this nice movie start the grind of someone that is reliving everyday the grind, like her on very own in-life purgatory trying to achieve her goal. But days come in and go by and you start to see the toll on the character, so close and so far away from her goal. The movie borders on slow and repetitive but aided by an amazing lead and intelligent script and nice cinematography and score one decides to soldier on and keep on watching. A few minutes before the ending you feel it is just a regular zombie, haunted house movie with a predictable end... but just as we come full circle at the end the movie, all the questions you had, all the inconsistencies you thought to have picked through the movie just explain themselves out in an absolutely amazing way. The grind, the repetitiveness of every day, the sympathy for the lead they are answered and in the end it comes up as a reward to the viewer. 20 minutes before the movie closed I was just thinking to myself, nice little art movie but pretty doesn't make for substance... 4/10... at the end... 8/10... how many movies do you know that not only do not drop the ball at the end much less raise the bar of the movie to a whole other level? Recommended without a doubt... and if I use JeremyJahns' ratings this is "Definitely worth buying on bluray"