Devils in the Darkness (2013) Reviews

• My Review Of "All The Devils Aliens" a.k.a. "Devils In The Darkness"

  ASouthernHorrorFan2013-11-17

  "All The Devils Aliens" is a bizarre piece of surreal melodrama that brings plenty of chills. The film is directed by Daniel Falicki and the title is listed as on IMDb as "Devils In The Darkness", a title I like much more than the one being used is distribution. Anyway that isn't the important part. "All The Devils Aliens" has some pretty impressive avant-styled acting with a cast that includes David Gries, Lisa Mueller, Joseph Scott Anthony, Shirley Clemens and Joshua Lieske. There is a supporting cast of creatures that accompany these very human afflicted characters that play as much apart of bringing the creepy to this film-so kudos to them. "ATDA" follows Mike Hill, a caregiver who takes a job assisting in the care of reclusive and eccentric retiree Stanton Pinborough. The pisser in this story is that Pinborough has a reason for eccentric character quirks because he nabbed a small infant alien from the crash debris recovered at the infamous Roswell incident. Now plagued by the "familial clan" of the small creature, Stanton Pinborough is reduced to the remnants of a tragic past and insanity. The story in "All The Devils Aliens" picks up with Pinborough at the latter state, as he is locked away in his quarters, cared for by Mike Hill, along with Robin Bradbury-the senior caregiver after a series of mysterious disappearances and rushes quitting's of various other home health nurses has left her in the position. The anchored dramatics of the story that mostly deal with Mike and Robin interacting to the various things that begin to happen on this particular shift hold some pretty quality suspense and tension in the film. At times the acting does falter toward the unbelievable and forced, but it bounces back just as quickly. There are momentary breaks of sudden moments of action which is meant to scare the viewer while breaking from the dialog-those moments deliver. I found myself jumping at times and keeping a constant chill of anticipation for the next scene. The over all plot and end game of the film does remain elusive for the most part which often made me wonder if I was even watching something worth watching, however holding in there, the film amped up the thrilling nature of dramatics as the film moved along-I was pleasantly surprised at the full nature of this story. The action/FX aspect of "All The Devils Aliens" were on the cheaper side, but the creativity to pull off those special effects moments works extremely well. The flare for dramatic in the last segment of the film becomes some bizarro, surreal nightmare sequence of craziness which gives us our aliens, the agenda, a flare for theatrics and total entertainment. This film is either the worst thing that a movie goer will see or it will be a great, witty, entertaining film- I had more times that I was totally involved, thrilled, and entertained to consider "All The Devils Aliens" horrible so I have to say that I found it entertaining. Not the greatest by far but far better than I was expecting. Some of the back-story seems a bit flimsy while watching but that flag burns fast after the big finale in the film. "All The Devils Aliens", in spite of the faltering acting and cheaper effects, is a cool, creative sci-fi horror.

• Indie sci-fi/horror silliness

  Leofwine_draca2017-09-28

  I caught this on Amazon Prime under the title ALL THE DEVIL'S ALIENS. It's an indie sci-fi/horror effort about an ordinary guy who has just graduated from college and is now looking for his first job. He ends up becoming a carer for a kooky recluse who lives in the woods and has some very odd ideas. This film is distinguished by a slow and realistic first half which turns into a very oddball second half, full of ideas and themes that never really gel. It all gets rather silly, and suffers for it.

• Reminds of attempts of class from bigger genre studios...

  guestar572013-12-08

  Made by : Daniel Falicki and Ryan Lieske. So,Watching this flick reminds you of the Gothic -like films of Full Moon and Roger Corman, Remember those attempts to inject alittle class that was non-existent usually on a miniscule budget. Could have seen GRIES before,But let us just say he has the put-upon guy down pat,His character is given a chance to breath and make some sense out of the villain's doings. MUELLER is quite good in a deteriorating 'Caregiver 'way.She is called to explain,coddle and service the villain. ANTHONY is truly amazing as the villain,Watching ATDA unfold,One thinks 'Oh,Those Bad Greys',Then it is revealed just how freakin' twisted ANTHONY truly is,was and will be ! Okay,Now to one filmmaker Daniel Falicki,This is the second of your films we watched in two weeks,Love the worlds you create and found out you made one of our recent SCI-FI favs FUTUREWORLD, Thanks, Just thanks, Love the path you lead us one with stories,characters and direction.