La marque du Diable

Ok, I wasn't expecting a masterpiece with a 3.8 rating on IMDB but this , this surpassed my imagination by a mile , should have set the bar lower than ground zero.

The top billed actor doesn't show up until a good 30 minutes into the film, has so little screen time it could be easily termed an extended camio.

After seeing many horror films and reading materials of this genre I could make a guess as to what was the explanation for all that but seriously wasn't that the film's responsibility to do the explanation? Not like spoon feeding the audience but like making sense of everything.

It really hurts to see Eduardo Noriega in something so poorly made. He is better than this, he deserves better than this.

Film was made like 3 years ago, released only this year in thetres in Mexico and now on Netflix - making it evident nothing good was to come out of it.

But it goes beyond that, it hurts to see a film this bad.

I stumbled upon this 2020 Mexican horror movie titled "La Marca del Demonio" (aka "Mark of the Devil") whilst perusing the horror titles on Netflix. And with this being a horror movie that I hadn't already seen, much less even heard about, of course I opted to give the movie a chance.

Writers Jose Ruben Escalante Mendez and Ruben Escalante Mendez put together a rather bland and mundane script for the movie. And the mixture of the Necronomicon, Ancient Ones from the Lovecraft Mythos and ordinary Catholic religion made for a very odd combination, and it just didn't work all that well.

Sure, taking the elements of the Lovecraft Mythos and putting into a movie is usually something I appreciate, but in "La Marca del Demonio" it just didn't work. Because director Diego Cohen utterly failed to capture the essence of the Lovecraft Mythos, nor were there any sense of cosmic dread about in this movie, which is what the Mythos is all about. And while they had the names of Cthylla and Ythogtha correct, these are hardly entities that possess humans. At least get your Mythos lore right if making a movie.

The acting performances in "La Marca del Demonio" were fair enough. I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, but they seemed talented enough. Just a shame that the material they had to work with in terms of script and storyline was such rubbish.

Visually, then "La Marca del Demonio" was okay. There were a few special effects throughout the course of 82 minutes that the movie ran for. You're not in for an overwhelming spectacle of over-the-top special effects, however. But it should be said that the special effects were fair enough.

If you enjoy horror movies, then "La Marca del Demonio" is not a movie I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on.

My rating of "La Marca del Demonio" lands on a three out of ten stars.

What was this movie it was like watching bits of other movies stitched together nothing worth while here

Truly awful film had to switch it off 44 mins in. The fact it was dubbed added to the abysmal acting.

Do yourself a favor. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME BY WATCHING THIS MOVIE. Do chores instead.

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