Review: The Devil's Left Hand (2023)
By William Pattison
For Horror Bob’s Blog
This time I got a low budget demonic film…
A demonic entity breaches a Medium at a young couple's
housewarming party, wreaking havoc and terrifying the attendees. After the
party, the entity begins stalking the guests. They attempt to fight back, but
don't know who they can trust as the Demon can shape-shift and appear to be
anyone. The stakes grow higher when the Demon begins killing them, one by one.
Really enjoyed this
film. It reminded me a bit of Witchboard. Even the main ghost in the film has
that Malfador vide to him. It isn’t so much like Witchboard in plot, but in
execution. It is a lower budget film but the filmmaker at least for 90 percent
of the production used the budget to it’s advantage. The actors worked very
well. I had no issues at all with their performances.
I liked how they used
sound FX and simple FX for the supernatural occurrences rather than going
overboard and trying to do too much. This way the story and the character stand
out.
Unfortunately, I noted from the reviews on IMDB that a lot
of reviewers felt the pace of the film was too slow. I think that is more a
generational thing because I had no problem with the pace at all. I, in fact,
felt this film provided a lot more than the usual flashy horror/ paranormal
outting.
Unfortunately, the end of this film is it’s undoing. It seems like the film ran out of
funds before completion and a quick and blunt ending had to be patched together.
The truth is the ending doesn’t even feel like an ending. It feels like things
were building up only for the film to suddenly stop. I was horribly
disappointed. I was enjoying the film and would have recommend it if it had an
actual end. Given the “ending” I can’t
recommend this film.. I feel really disappointed. This film had
potential, but I guess the budget killed it. I’ve only had this happen a couple times in all
the thousands of films I’ve viewed. Sorry people…
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