Devil

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Devil

PG-13

2010

1h 20m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Five strangers' day begins with an elevator ride in a Philadelphia office tower. But, what happens next is anything but ordinary. The elevator gets stuck, and the trapped passengers, who expected to be together just a few minutes, now face the revelation of their secrets and transgressions. Frightening events turn annoyance into terror, as they begin to realize that one of their number is Lucifer himself.

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Critics Consensus

It's better than many of the other films M. Night Shyamalan has been associated with, but Devil never gets more than a few low-budget thrills out of its fiendishly promising premise.

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Candice Frederick

Reel Talk Online

09/09/2017

C-

Devil isn't really scary, the acting stinks, and it's not that clever, but you can rest knowing that the culprit isn't a hand puppet.

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

04/14/2011

C-

Nonsensical to the point that every element doesn't hold up to the least bit of scrutiny.

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

04/04/2011

2.5/5

Circling wildly within the film's main set -- a stalled elevator car -- or hurtling up and down an empty shaft, Mr. Fujimoto's camera is as giddy as a tween at a Justin Bieber concert.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Sep 11

2/5

A handful of twists and turns in the narrative prevent it from being a complete waste of time, but only just barely.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

09/08/2024

3/5

…if most of Shyamalan’s films take a long time to get to laughable punchlines, Devil is quite the opposite, rushing headlong through all manner of crazy plot-points and red-herring characters...an ideal streaming time-passer, short and packed with twists

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

08/03/2023

1.5/4

Unlike something such as The Exorcist, which will scare the bejesus out of you no matter what you believe, this PG-13 horror film doesn’t give its audience or its characters enough cause to buy its central gimmick.

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Peter D

@peterduenas Feb 12

Very good suspense story.

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Ben G.

@Ben09387 Jan 5

This movie is relatively dumb but it is entertaining enough to be worth watching.

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Dylan C.

@Dylanthebiguy Nov 3

The movie was decent but I HATE THE JELLY SIDE DOWN THEORY 😑

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Dean H.

@Dark_Lord_Torgo Oct 30

Love it! The sinner is damned but the repentant is saved. The basic even if we do wrong we can be saved. The unrepentant are judged. Always great fodder for a story.

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Gianluca R

@rei_lex 07/27/2025

One of the best story of M.Night, a little bit like Stephen King style. Low budget but very intriguing, only the ending could be different IMHO Very good anyway

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Gabriel T

@GabrielFagundes 06/05/2025

No horror or death scenes cause it's to dark. No mystery cause the movie's title is "Devil". I laughed during the climax. Really bad music choices for a horror movie. Bad and bigoted jokes. Irritating religious apologies

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Synopsis

Five strangers' day begins with an elevator ride in a Philadelphia office tower. But, what happens next is anything but ordinary. The elevator gets stuck, and the trapped passengers, who expected to be together just a few minutes, now face the revelation of their secrets and transgressions. Frightening events turn annoyance into terror, as they begin to realize that one of their number is Lucifer himself.

Director: John Erick Dowdle
Producer: M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mercer
Screenwriter: Brian Nelson, M. Night Shyamalan
Distributor: Universal Studios
Production Co: Universal Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Disturbing Images|Sexual References|Thematic Material|Violence)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 17, 2010, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 1, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $33.6M
Runtime: 1h 20m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS