Devil's Backbone, Texas

2015
4| 1h20m| en
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In January, 1996 Unsolved Mysteries featured a story on landowner Bert Wall's 'real-life' interactions with the spirits that roamed the Devil's Backbone. Nearly twenty years later, Wall passed away...leaving behind only fragmented tales of an inexplicable terror to those that knew him best.

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ada the leading man is my tpye
Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Shelpa I watch a LOT of movies and really enjoy found footage. I think it is a genre that you either love or hate. I believe the bad reviews that these types of movies receive are due to people who do not have an affection for the genre watching and then reviewing them. These types of movies are usually filmed on a budget by inexperienced actors and film makers so why people watching them expect to see superb effects, acting, editing etc is something that I have never understood.If you enjoy found footage then I think that you would consider this an above average found footage film.The acting was great and the build up of suspense while laying out the background and story was fantastic. It is one of the most convincing 'mockumentry' type movies I have seen. I also did some googling after watching this movie and it is very obvious that a lot of effort went into research and into ensuring that the film had a realistic vibe.Despite what some reviewers are saying I thought the ending was very satisfying and unexpected. I found myself smiling and then shocked at what was happening.If you are a found footage lover, then give it a go, I guarantee you will enjoy it.
Nikolas Robinson 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.
martoni64 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 ...
tereseatbiocybernaut This movie set out to do this that it couldn't achieve. I don't think it was the fault of James. Unfortunately, he took a bunch of really shallow wannabe starlets out on a spiritual journey to his father's ranch in Texas. The people he took with them were incapable of setting aside their needs to help a friend do the things he wanted to do. I would actually venture to say this movie is a perfect example of how children who have been neglected by a parent(s) reenact that neglect in adult relationships. The main character, James, brought childish friends to support him in ways they most definitely were unprepared- at least that is how it seemed, but then something changes and your back I the psychological thriller. So, for a 2 AM and "I can't sleep" movie it is not bad and I can't really agree with the waste of time review. Yet, do not expect much.