Alex (Michelle Argyris) is going to school and rooms with two other girls: Jessica (Shantelle Canzanese) who is like her BFF and Bree (Vanessa Broze) who is her frenemy. Unknown to Alex, her and Bree share her boyfriend Brian (Kevin Jake Walker) because Alex is still a "pure vessel."

One night after some parting, Alex and Jessica visit a gypsy (Louise Hollingsworth). After this episode the film turns in "Rosemary's Baby," "The Exorcist", and "The Entity" which you can pretty much tell by the two titles for the film:The Devil in Me" and "The Devil's Seed." Guess who the kid is.

The film has a good build up and creep factor. It is far superior to "Devil's Due" a film of similar topic. Worth a view for horror fans even if you know what is coming.

Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity (Vanessa Broze).

College student Alex (a solid and appealing portrayal by Michelle Argyris) and her spunky gal pal Jessica (a winningly perky portrayal by Shantelle Canzanesse) go to see a psychic lady (a nicely sinister turn by Louise Hollingsworth). The encounter with said psychic doesn't go over well. Soon thereafter Alex starts experiencing hallucinations and finds scratch marks all over her body. Could Alex be possessed by some kind of evil spirit?

Director/co-writer Greg A. Sager relates the familiar, yet still enjoyable and engrossing story at a constant pace, takes time to develop the sympathetic main character, ably crafts a pleasingly creepy ooga-booga atmosphere, stages the lively exorcism climax with flair and skill, and tosses in some hardcore cursing, gore, and gratuitous female nudity for trashy good measure. Moreover, Argyris makes for a likeable lead; she receives sound support from Vanessa Broze as the foxy, yet snarky Breanne, Kevin Walker as skeptical boyfriend Brian, Wayne Conroy as the concerned Professor Madison, and Michael C. Wilmot as rundown priest Father Madison. A fun fright flick.

Thing that I can truly give this movie is that it at least isn't being like your average horror movie, in which a girl gets possessed by the devil. It does some new stuff and takes some good approaches to its subject. Well, in its first half at least. The second half of the movie unfortunately is far more clichéd and 'borrows' from several other well known genre movies. The more the movie progresses, the worser it gets.

The movie is only about 90 minutes short but it still feels way too long. It stretches things out, which cause the movie to get a bit tiresome after a while. OK, we get it! She is possessed, now get back to the story and tell us why and how it can be undone. It stalls for as long as possible and unfortunately there also isn't a good payoff to any of it.

It's all a real shame, since I actually was quite into the movie at first. I liked that it wasn't being like a typical modern horror-flick, involving teenagers. It seemed to take a far more clever and classy approach, despite its low-budget. Guess they forget about the script though, or perhaps they thought that half a good and originally written story would be enough to make a great genre movie out of.

It's weird how the movie successfully seems to avoid all of the genre clichés at first but then suddenly starts using every cliché out of the book and begins doing stuff that we have all seen before in different and far better genre movies. Yes, it doesn't look like it at first but in the end this movie is being nothing more than just another "The Exorcist" wannabe and knockoff.

The movie also becomes a totally unlikely one after a while, when its story starts doing some stupid things. Some of the events that happen in this movie are so unlikely and silly that they start taking away some of the suspension of disbelief. This especially goes for its very ending.

Still a good and original enough movie in some ways but in the end it's being nothing more than just another cheap and lazy "The Exorcist" ripoff.

5/10

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