SYNOPSICS
Scream at the Devil (2015) is a English movie. Joseph P. Stachura has directed this movie. Shari Shattuck,Eric Etebari,Jane Park Smith,Tony Todd are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2015. Scream at the Devil (2015) is considered one of the best Horror,Mystery,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
Mirium Jones suffers from schizophrenia. Estranged from her husband because of an illicit affair with a younger woman, Mirium travels alone to the land of her dreams. Sad and lost, she finds herself in an ancient Basilica where she makes a promise to the Devil himself. After returning to the States, Mirium reunites with her husband Gabriel and they set out to begin a new life in a new home, isolated in the forest many miles from the city. Strange images begin to haunt Mirium, and after a violent attack, Gabriel disappears. Now alone and isolated, Mirium's terrifying demonic manifestations begin to drive her to the edge of sanity. Or has the Devil come to take his due?
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Lost in the Screenplay
After losing her baby and finding that her husband Gabriel Jones (Eric Etebari) has a love affair, the housewife Mirium Jones (Shari Shattuck) travels to Venice and makes a pact with the devil to become pregnant again. When she returns, she moves with Gabriel to an isolated house for a new beginning, but Mirium is unstable and disturbed with evil daydreams and visions. After a violent argument with Gabriel, he vanishes and Mirium is tormented by her neighbors. Is Mirium really lunatic or part of the Devil's plan? "Scream at the Devil" is a film with good ideas from other movies, special effects and performance of the lead actress Shari Shattuck. However the storyline is a mess and the director / writer Joseph P. Stachura is totally lost in an awful screenplay. In the end, "Scream at the Devil" is boring but never scary. My vote is three. Title (Brazil): "Grito de Pânico" ("Scream of Panic")
Good idea...bad everything else
"A beautiful schizophrenic woman is pushed over the edge by her husband's illicit affairs, and when her hallucinations become reality the Devil comes to take his due." Nothing in that description is actually true. The woman is not "beautiful" and "her husband's illicit affairs" didn't pushed her "over the edge" nor "her hallucinations become reality". So when a movie says "the story is about unicorns" and it's actually about horses...you have a serious problem at hand. The movie tells the story of Mirium Jones, a woman suffering from schizophrenia that decides to "leave it all behind" when her husband cheats on her with a younger woman. She also lost her unborn children due to a miscarriage. See? And you thought your life was bad. So she decides to take a trip to Venice and goes to a Basilica (a very old and magnificent church) basically to pray to the Devil (?) for a chance of getting pregnant again. Because everyone knows that if you need to make a Pact with Satan...the obvious place to go is a church. Then without any kind of explanation the emotionally scarred woman decides to go back with her husband, who buys a huge house in the mountains and builds a "studio" for her and her paintings. But then...everything goes to hell when all of a sudden all the characters become like corrupted versions of themselves. Again, without any sort of real explanation. Strange things start to happen all around Mirium and the obvious question Writer/Director Joseph P. Stachura wants you to ask is "is it all real or not?" "are all these due to the schizophrenia or is the Devil's work?". A very interesting idea (albeit not an original one at this point) that Stachura completely ruins with his awful directing job and a worse script. The acting in this movie is an insult to the senses and not even Tony Todd is able to deliver a worthy performance. Shari Shattuck as Mirium is a complete mess and most of her performance just jumps from overacting to plain pathetic acting. The rest of the cast is just...well...let's just say "bad". Photography is forgettable, except for the Venice portion of the movie (the first 7-8 minutes of it). The SFX are something straight out of a B Movie. The Syfy original movies' FX are almost something out of Industrial Light & Magic compared to these ones. Oh...and the ending completely disregards everything you see just minutes prior to it. Seriously, this movie couldn't be any more worse even if it were 90 minutes of still pictures of grass. Just do yourself a favor and skip it. This is probably one of the worst movies released in 2015.
Don't waste your time on this one
I tend to only review movies that were so bad I feel I must warn others not to bother with them. This is a good example of that. The acting is terrible, the story goes nowhere and no one seems to know what's going on. It was like a student film, and a bad one at that. I thought the premise sounded good, so I watched it, but this movie just inundates you with one scare after another until you grow immune and after a while the "scary" parts become comical. And these characters that show up at her door demanding to be invited in. How stupid is that? That's like the old vampire lore even though they aren't vampires. And those stupid "country" girls who can't even talk right. Why are the stereotypes always the same in junk like this? Don't these writers ever do any research? The best part of the movie was the scenery from Venice. I guess the crew and director did the whole thing just to get a free trip to Italy, because it had nothing to do with the rest of the story. Well, enough time wasted on this dog. There are plenty of really bad horror movies out there, but this one is so lame it makes you laugh and cry at the same time.
Don't watch it!
SCREAM AT THE DEVIL is an awful and pointless independent horror production. The cover has been designed to make it look like your standard possession flick, but this is nothing like. Instead it's the humdrum tale of your ordinary housewife who begins to suffer from mental illness and finds herself assailed by weird, demonic visions and other phenomena. I'm not sure what the market is for a film like this, which so obviously must have been a non-starter for those making it. It lacks a single sympathetic character in the whole cast and for 90% of the running time the viewer is saddled with the below-par acting of Shari Shattuck, an ageing former TV star who fails to hold the attention at all. Oh yeah, and Tony Todd cameos as a cop, but he's no reason to tune into this silly and pointless production.
Terrible Movie
This is one of the worst horror movies I have ever seen. I watched it because it had gotten some good reviews on Amazon but now I'm wondering who wrote those (friends of the director?) The plot is about a woman who goes to Italy and makes a deal with the devil to have a baby. When she returns home she starts having nightmares and seeing visions of demons. The problem is the movie is NOT SCARY and the acting is SO AWFUL. The director seems to "borrow" a lot from other horror films. There is one scene that is a complete rip-off of Rosemary's Baby. Tony Todd (Candyman) was listed as one of the stars but he doesn't show up until the end and had a very small role. I actually felt bad he had to take this part. I advise other horror fans to skip this movie - it's very, very BAD.