Production Year: 2005 - Horror - Director: Henry Winkler, David Winkler - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jensen Ackles, Shannyn Sossamon, Martin Cummins, Dominique Swain, William Sadler more
The addictive nature of a new videogame, known as 'Pathways' to its underground community of devotees, has more than the usual sinister implications. Jake Cummings (Jensen Ackles)... more
Devour DVD
Evil feeds on evil... Jake Cummings is your average high school teenager but his life is ... more
irrevocably changed when a fellow student introduces him to a video game called "The Pathway". After submitting his information into the computer software Jake ...
Production Year: 1979 - Horror - Director: John Carpenter - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, James Canning
A review by lisajay on Devour (DVD) May 18th, 2006
Author's product rating:
Did you enjoy it?
Indifferent to it
Story
Very weak
Characters / Performances
Good
Special Effects
Standard
How does it compare to similar films?
Unmemorable
Advantages:
Has Jensen Ackles In It ! !
Disadvantages:
Confusing Storyline
Recommend to potential buyers:
no
Full review
Devour is a teen horror film with an 18 rating. Not sure why it's an 18, but I'll come back to that!
Jake Cummings (played by Jensen Ackles of Supernatural, Smallville and Dark Angel fame) gets signed up to an online game called "The Pathway", by his friends as a birthday gift.
The game claims to know your thoughts, and calls you up on the phone and asks you to complete tasks in order to 'win' the game.
The game starts to get out of control with tragic consequences, meaning that Jake starts to look into the origins of the game.
Devil worship, kidnapping and family secrets all become evidently part of the whole scenario.
Now personally I couldn't really make much sense of this film. It appears that they had an idea for a film that had a lot of potential, but they changed the plot as they were filming it.
I am a huge Jensen Ackles fan, and his performance was good considering the story he was having to work with. He also stars alongside his father, who plays (surprisingly) his father in the film.
I found this film to be more funny than scary and I really don't think that this was the intention of the film.
There is a fair amount of gore, some blood, but certainly nothing that justifies the 18 rating of this film. A 15 would suit this more.
Since the DVD was only £5.97 from Amazon, I don't feel too let down, but if I had paid full DVD price then I would.
There are no extras on the DVD which is a real shame. The sound is in Dolby Digital, and there are plenty of subtitles, but that's it.
Would have been useful for some commentaries on the film to have been added that might allow the viewer to fully understand what was trying to be achieved.
Overall, it's the sort of horror film that is probably better understood when you are drunk, lol.
Advantages: Good humorous movie with a silly creature Disadvantages: a bit sloppy on the special effects
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**IN CONCLUSION**
When I looked at the DVD casing for this one I thought I was in for a gripping horror, with the razor toothed beast emerging from the bottom of the case, pluoghing upwards to devour everything and anything in its way?almost like the cover from the Jaws movie?
Then when I put the DVD into the tray I didn't quite get what I was expecting.
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Of course, they were ostensibly bought for the wee lass, (my now twelve-year-old daughter) but in truth, her old dad probably got as much pleasure out of them as she did.
So it was hardly surprising that when the first Tomb Raider movie, starring Angelina Jolie, came out in 2001 that it was immediately purchased on video, (I didn’t have a DVD player back then) and avidly devoured by both myself and the wee lass. Since then, it has been a firm favourite when she has her friends over for sleepovers, and has been the source of much pleasure and entertainment.
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Plot: The addictive nature of a new videogame, known as 'Pathways' to its underground community of devotees, has more than the usual sinister implications. Jake Cummings (Jensen Ackles) and his friends are becoming increasingly caught up in the game, which somehow seems to know their thoughts, and which calls them on the phone to administer bizarre tasks that must be accomplished in order to 'win'. But 'pathways' is also the word used to describe the connection between the devil and his human victims, and as the game spins ever more out of control, the world seems threatened by an outbreak of evil the likes of which it has never seen before.
Release details
DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
The addictive nature of a new videogame, known as 'Pathways' to its underground community of devotees, has more than the usual sinister implications. Jake Cummings (Jensen Ackles) and his friends are becoming increasingly caught up in the game, which somehow seems to know their thoughts, and which calls them on the phone to administer bizarre tasks that must be accomplished in order to 'win'. But 'pathways' is also the word used to describe the connection between the devil and his human victims, and as the game spins ever more out of control, the world seems threatened by an outbreak of evil the likes of which it has never seen before.
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