Devil's Diary

I didn't have real high hopes for this movie, even though it had some pretty high ratings, I never go buy these couch critics ratings because they're usually so far off I can't even believe they wrote them!

The acting was superb in this movie, The actress that played Dominique is a brilliant young actress, and I have a feeling we're going to see much more of her in the future... This movie was evil incarnate, not huge on a effects, just pure Evil! GREAT Premise! And GOOD Acting! Everything Evil the bearer writes in the book comes true, and some of these little teenage girls have got some very evil Imaginations running around in their little heads LOL so give this movie a try I think you'll like it! I enjoyed the hell out of it (Pun intended)

This made for tv film was a favorite of mine as a preteen, and after watching it again as an adult I still hold the same love for it. Honestly better than a lot of horror/thrillers that make it to theaters, keeps you interested and is fun all together.

maybe I'm a lightweight anyway these days since I am not interested in some really extreme horror these days but this film in spite of I would say not great acting and the story having some really weak points and going in directions that made no sense at all sometimes, with some situations just getting sorted out way too easily and in spite of the dialog not being too good still it was plotted in a way that made it lots of fun and it was very nerve wracking to wait for these bad things to happen. one thing that was odd was that the evil stepfather was really so good looking that, if you have to have a bad stepfather, it could be a lot worse than with that guy...and he gives mountain climbing tours in Vancouver I see go-ogling him. quite the fox.

Best friends Dominique (Alexz Johnson) and Ursula (Magda Apanowicz) find a mysterious book in the cemetery. It's full of empty pages. Ursula uses it as a diary. She writes a wish for the mean cheerleader Heather (Miriam McDonald) to break her legs and it happens the next day.

This is a TV movie and it looks it. That's one of its weakest. It needs bigger production value and better people to create a more compelling style. The horror parts were just weak. It has a pretty good concept, and Magda Apanowicz is great as the bullied Ursula who turns evil. She's the best thing in the movie. Killing her off midway thru is the worst mistake they make. After that Alexz Johnson just couldn't hold the whole movie together. The gang to get the book back just doesn't have the Scooby Doo vibe. The movie just falls apart after Ursula.

Teen school kids find themselves up to their necks in trouble when an evil book lands in their very incapable hands, bringing forth Dominique the Diabolique.

I have to admit, the story itself got my attention as it is a good one even though we've seen this type of thing a thousand times over. The characters, Ursula and Dominique introduce things with good humour and edginess, both providing an interesting start to the movie. But, as is often the way with teen horrors, Devil's Diary does the usual nose dive on ideas in the second half and quite literally dies in the dirt unceremoniously. One part that worked was when the book left Ursula to entice other ill-prepared characters, giving some further interest in the story, leaving a path of calamity in the book's wake. It all sounds quite silly when we consider a book's ability to cause people's demise, but actually it's the silliness that keeps things fun and watchable. It kind of reminds me of a Scooby Doo episode for some reason, with it's playfully not-to-spooky scenarios. I'll give it just a pass mark of 5 stars, because the second half is very tropey and by the numbers, but I enjoyed Ursula and Dominique in the first half.