M. Night Shyamalan is having some serious problems. After reached the sky of horror and thriller movies with The sixth Sense and Unbreakable, he made a couple of interesting movies (The Village and Signs). Ok, there was nothing to worry about at that time. But then, it came out The Lady in the water, followed by The Happening. Both of them had big screenplay mistakes, neither of them were really successful and they bored the hell out of audicences around the world. Even though you could still feel the director´s magic in a bunch of great sequences. His name started to be linked with great ideas but poor results.
Both the box office and the reviews started to be really cruel with the director. Avatar: the last airbender was the last try of Shyamalan to finally reach reconciliation with the fans. As it turned out, he failed. The movie is not being what the studio wanted to be: the blockbuster of the summer. As if the box office failure weren´t enough, the critics and the fans had definitely lost their faith in the director.
Anyhow, his ideas for movies are truly interesting and always intriguing enough to talk about any project he is involve with. Devil is the last one. This is the first one in a series of low budget movies inspired by original ideas of M. Night Shyamalan. The film is not even written by him, though. He had the original idea, he helped to write the scrip and he produced the film but were the Dowdle brothers (Quarantine) the ones who finally direct the movie. Devil tells the story of a group of people trapped in a elevator with the devil himself. As soon as the elevator gets stuck, weird stuff happens. Who is the devil within this group? Are they going to survive? And most important, what does the devil want from these people?
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