Devil's Backbone, Texas

Please read this review before watching this movie, and then don't watch this movie. I am saving you precious time, I sat through this, hitting horror rock bottom, so you don't have to. An intriguing beginning never developed into anything other than an absolute waste of time. From the played out format, the complete lack of pace, the running and screaming in the night, the boredom, oh God the boredom ! The arrogance that this was good enough to be made into a movie in the first place, then star in it ! not to mention the waste of resources, time and money of all involved beggars belief. I beg of you Jake Wade Wall, please stop making movies.

Not many, but I've seen worse. It starts off promising with a son looking for closure after his father's death, bringing a few friends for a simply ceremony. He makes it all into some kind of documentary so this movie is part self documentary (Blair witch project you know) and part real time action.

Now, if the parts hinted at in the documentary part of the film actually got acted on in the real time action part - then it would actually, maybe, and quite possibly have been a decent horror story. But no, that doesn't really happen.

Either because the actors and director doesn't have necessary talent to pull it through, or because the script is bad, or maybe a combination. Yelling in darkness isn't acting, so that doesn't count towards talent. And, unfortunately, that is most that happens in the real life action part of the film. It simply gets hideously boring.

I think it would have been much, much better to concentrate on the documentary, fleshing out the story that way and make a Gothic, Lovecraftian end to it all rather than the poor action it contains. Alas it's much too late for that now ...

UGH... Did I really just watch this? Stuck on the couch after surgery and wishing this was just a bad post op dream. Bad actors, especially the girls. The castrated metro males are weaker than kittens.

A good story idea ruined by bad actors and cinematography. The style is over used and unoriginal. Im no production expert but Im a consumer and this is just plain dollar store quality.

The author needs to get with a real professional production company and take this story where it needs to go. story line drifts and some scenes make no sense at all. For example, boar in the trap. So and then what?

The location was good for the story, could of made better use of the landscape. everything was from one prospective only, the speechless camera operator.

Devil's Backbone Texas is a decent movie for what it is, a fictional documentary building on supposed "real life" paranormal activity in the region. The documentary aspect of the movie could have been more coherent and fluid as the protagonist is investigating his con man father's bizarre death, the claims of supernatural activity surrounding that event, and his goal of spreading his father's ashes on the property...but it works for the purposes of the movie, being amateurs and friends filming the documentary rather than professional documentary filmmakers. It's a slow burn with limited payoff at the end and a few attempted jump scares mingled with some attempts at tense moments during the latter half of the movie...though some of the tension is pulled off fairly well, with some creepy bits and pieces. What truly makes the movie worthwhile is the final couple of minutes with a twist that makes you think one thing followed shortly by another that wraps it all up. If the build up to the conclusion had been a little bit better, the whole movie could have been a pretty great fake documentary, but it stumbles a bit too much coming out of the gate.

This film started out really slow and a bit boring for me. When they started exploring the house, things started picking up and I really enjoyed it. The landscape really helped a lot, and helped set the mood I feel. I enjoyed the film up until the end. I thought there were a lot of things they threw in and never explained (Was there a point to the Nazi memorabilia?) The very end of the movie was something seen a million times and the effects were not good. I think if they just focused on the story of the woman in white it would've been a lot better.I did like the documentary style of movie that this was. The ending ruined it for me.