 Thanks for checking out this movie review video This is for the 2020 release made the devil take you to and it's a shutter original and it's hitting shutter this Thursday October 29th. Yes, I had to look down there now something to know up front and then I'll go into a disclaimer on this film This is a sequel film. The first film is called met made the devil take you. This is obviously made the devil take you to It's also kind of called made the devil take you part to or chapter to or volume to something like that But the way it's being presented on shutter is to as in to oh now I did not see the first one and I do not believe that shutter is putting the first one up on their service So I assume that most people if they're gonna watch it on shutter will not have seen the first film now that said I would encourage you to just go ahead and Either see the first film before watching this one because I think it will add to the enjoyment from what I've surmised or Look up the events of what happened in the first one all the spoilers all the events online Which is what I did because I didn't have the time to go looking for that first film before doing this review So Choose however you want to do it But I would say go just going into this film without having seen the first one or knowing the events of the first one It's not going to make I mean it'll still make sense because it has its own story to it But it also is a continuation of another story. So it's bringing two stories together in a sense and It's just a richer story if you do it and that's important kind of because The new story introduced in the sequel isn't that great in my opinion. So I think maybe you're just better off watching the first one And if you like the first one go ahead and watch this one All right, I'll I'll I'll get a little bit more into it and I'll tell you It was written and directed by Timo Tejanto Who did films such as takut faces of fear macabre the abc's of death had a short in that had a short in vhs2 Killers headshot the night comes for us Portals and made the devil take you Like I said to shutter original. This is an indonesian horror film now A little quick synopsis without giving anything away because this is a no spoilers review Especially since it's coming out ahead of the film actually hitting shutter So basically it follows the characters from the two characters still around from the first film and Rolls them into a new story in essence. They are kind of brought into someone else's story someone else's predicament that Uh, the main character Alfie can use to draw from to potentially help these new people With their problem. That's kind of similar to the problem that she kind of dealt with in the first film So it kind of builds off of the experiences from the main character from For the main character from the first film And it also builds off of the knowledge that the audience would have had from that first film And kind of what's going on it just kind of expands the world of what was created in the first one So and that's why I say probably just watch the first one and then watch this or at least know the event I think it's probably better to watch the first film Which I did not do but I I might go back and do um It starts with obvious trauma and fall out from the first film and seems that the fight is basically not over Um, and that's obviously something that just goes on within this film. It continues from there now this film head is I had heard while I'd read when I was reading about the first film the events of the first film I'd read that this the first one was very evil dead inspired and not just You know story wise because there is a little bit of that Inspiration story wise that you can see in this one But stylistically for the director and I definitely see that I definitely see the stylistic leaning towards a Sam Raimi the evil dead style Um, especially because of you know, some moments where things get a little bit fast Um movements of cameras. That's one of the big things that I know is very early on is there are a lot of uh considerable movements of the camera from one thing or one character to something else Uh doing that kind of traveling of the camera that is very You know popular from the evil dead film Uh, so yeah, you can you can see if you're familiar with the evil dead and how Sam Raimi directed those films You can see the inspiration in this film now that said it's a good aesthetic and I don't think it's I don't think it's cribbed directly from the evil dead It has enough of the director's own flavor to it that it doesn't seem like it's just a rip off of Sam Raimi and the evil dead Or those types of films it It he hasn't enough of his own flavor to it So I appreciate that and that's one of the things I do want to say about this film is it looks very good It's it, you know, it has good style to it. Sinem Uh cinematography is really good looking the directing is well done. The acting is quite good, especially the people who end up Um, well since it's like the evil dead people who end up having any sort of possession going on with them Uh, they do a really good job with that and really really selling it practical effects in it are good their CGI used in it and In certain moments, it looks maybe a little bit wonky, but for the most part pretty solid Uh, it's one of those issues that you run into with when you're going to show CGI for More than like a second or a few seconds people really get their eyes to focus on it And then you can start to see where it looks a little bit unrealistic for you know What the actual setting is whatever you laid it on top of so, uh, that's just natural that's gonna end up happening It's not bad. Like, you know, I've seen some really bad CGI in films like this and There's not bad CGI in this so they did a pretty solid job There's actually a moment with fire Well, there are a few moments with fire in the film But there's one moment in particular with fire CGI fire that actually looks really cool and was a really good idea for a scene So I really did enjoy that They have a decent amount of jump scares in the film and I think some of them really do work other ones End up not really working as much because I feel like they put them in a decent amount so that at some point you're kind of You're not really You know biting on what the jump scare is after a bit but early on, you know, they may get you they may get you Uh, I already talked about that, uh, it seems that the main character actually embraces Uh, the terrible things that happened to her from the first film and kind of admits that The experiences and and the baggage and the trauma that's come from that has basically become a part of her persona Which from what I was saying with the synopsis ends up being an important thing with the film and with the story For moving things forward, um, you know, basically an expert at what She's recruited to do in essence or you know, just help help with Alfie's pulled into a situation similar to the ones, um in the first one But she's an expert like I was saying Uh, much like I read about the first film. It is steeped individuals and concepts akin to The evil dead. So if you're down with that It's not exactly the same You'll get the flavor you'll definitely see the inspiration and maybe you'll like that for that reason. I don't know There are one of the things I was I was surprised with is there's some really prolonged portions of the film that just have craziness going on Just for a long period of time, you know, there's a lot a lot of horror films Especially ones like this that are like possession or like ghost films or anything like that They'll have something happen But it it's kind of quick and then it goes back to things being calm And then we'll try and build the tension back up again And then I'll have something happen for a little bit and then they'll you know calm it down This one has prolonged portions where They don't back down. They don't calm things down. It's just like go go go go go go go Now that's a good thing for people who really want that type of stuff But for me personally, um, there's not enough story in the film for me to really Be pulled into it to be okay with how much of that there is because A lot of the things that they're doing that are like the height the, um I guess I want to say, uh It's action to a degree like horror action the action portions that they're doing A lot of it kind of repeats itself in a way It's a lot of the same type of things with you know a little difference here and there, you know the It's not always exactly the same But it's the same type of things happening with these characters and it just keeps happening and happening and happening To a point where I just kind of felt like okay, you know, like I get the point And it's fine to keep doing these things as long as you're also giving me a bunch of you know Little nibblets of story, but there's not enough story to it. It's it's relatively simple I wasn't that surprised with the twist. There's a twist to it. I didn't think it was that great of a twist I was like, oh, okay, and the ending is it's not a bad ending It's an okay ending for what's going on in it But it's like an hour and almost 50 minute film And it doesn't have the story to go that long. So it's a little too long It feels repetitive and what it's doing. It just feels stuck at times Like they have good ideas and they have cool visual things that they're doing And if you really like that and you don't really care that much about the story You may really enjoy this film and that's great because like I said Visually, it looks really good and they have some good jump scares There's some good stuff and the practical effects look really good and CGI is not that bad So maybe it's your thing. It's just not my thing I won a lot of story from films like this and another disclaimer for me is I probably should have said this earlier This isn't my type of sub genre. I'm usually not into these types of films unless it specifically is the evil dead Because that's very different For many reasons, but you know, it's uh, you know I would say a film that that has the same hits the same kind of subgenre as this That I really did enjoy a lot because of the story and because of the awesome twist in the end was in pedagore Which is also an indonesian film. I believe so I have which I have a review for it on this channel um The dialogue there there's a okay amount of dialogue in it You know normal amount that you would assume but it kind of seems like the dialogue doesn't do a whole lot There there are bits of dialogue that matter here and there But a lot of it seems like filler dialogue like people saying each other's names or just saying oh, what are you doing? How's it going? You know stuff like that and it's just like It feels like there's time wasting and that goes to my my comment about it feeling feeling like it's stuck It just like stagnates. It's just doing the same thing over and over and over again It's like those people who don't know how to get off the phone In a way You know what i'm saying like if you're talking to someone my father's this way actually If you're talking to someone and the conversation is basically over like it's definitely over But you're talking to someone who doesn't know how to finish that conversation They just keep talking and that's kind of what this film felt like to me at times Or like okay, we already saw that we already went through that. They're that's the same thing story-wise like So just saying um There is a really awesome scene in this towards the end though That's this really awesome gross out scene If you watch this or if you already watch this film, I I think you know what I mean. It has to do with A tongue i'll just say that much it has to do with the tongue that doesn't ruin anything at all But it's a really good gross out scene and it they did an excellent job with that. I love that um Yeah, there is a clear one big clear theme in this and i'm assuming From what I read it seems like it's a theme that kind of carried over from the first film. It just kind of Has different people affected by it and this one it takes a little bit further It's kind of the theme of the younger generation kind of paying for the sins of the older generation So family-wise, you know parents doing something bad or making poor decisions And then their children have to pay for that somewhere down the road Which is something that happens a lot in film the themes used a lot in film and Um, it's effective and it's definitely effective. I don't think it ever gets super old I just find that when the steam comes up again, I just want some new story take to it So and this just didn't give me enough story unfortunately, but Like I said, there are a lot of good things as well And I would love to hear other people's opinions on this. Did you agree with me? Do you disagree with me and that's all good because this is just my opinion solely and there may be people I'm sure there are people we're gonna love this film and that's great Um a film that I reviewed recently the cleansing hour. I was okay on it I've heard a lot of people say they loved it and that's great I it's just not my thing. So yeah, but put your comments down there. Let me know what you thought about this We can talk about it Uh spoilers, that's totally fine. 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