Devil (2010) is about random strangers that find themselves trapped in an elevator whereby events seemingly happen for a reason. Theses strangers soon discover that one of them are not who they appear to be – apparently, one of them is the devil.

Starring Chris Messina, Joshua Peace, Geoffrey Arend and Caroline Dhavernas.

Judging upon the first watch of the trailer – I’d say words to describe Devil would be “tense”, “captivating” and perhaps even “hell-raising”, I love supernatural horrors and anything involving demonic, devilish presences also make my freakish appetite salivate.

However online critics are not receiving this trailer well. Poor M. Night Shyamlan has received worse and worse beatings by critics with every release of his works since The Sixth Sense that was hailed as one of the best supernatural horrors.

It has high potential to disappoint due to 80% of the film takes place in the elevator and nobody famous is in it – probably due to M. Night Shyamalan losing an obscene amount of credibility that he couldn’t cast a single actor anyone’s heard of. It also seems that the subsequent works of M. Night Shyamalan after The Sixth Sense have all received progressively worse reception including Unbreakable (2000) IMDb rating – 7.3/10, Signs (2002) IMDb rating – 6.9/10, The Village (2004) IMDb rating – 6.6/10, Lady in the Water (2006) IMDb rating – 5.8/10, The Happening (2008) IMDb rating – 5.2/10.

Oh dear.. will Devil (2010) hit an all time low of below 5/10 on IMDb?

Devil will be out in the US on 17th September, no word yet on when it will hit the UK.

The Film Buzz Anticipation Rating: *****~~~~~ (5/10)