May the Devil Take You

Masques parfaits, pitreries gores et démoniaques à la manière d'Evil Dead. Malheureusement, tout cela est greffé sur une malédiction familiale (comme par hasard) qui s'avère amusante seulement pendant la première demi-heure. Elle est en effet résolue uniquement par des adolescents en conflit avec leurs parents, qu'ils soient biologiques ou adoptifs, et le scénariste leur donne des dialogues et des comportements qui donnent l'impression qu'il ne les aime pas lui-même. Vous vous demandez même, dans ces scènes de démon effrayantes et bien réalisées, si le créateur du film n'était pas possédé par le diable lui-même. Avec une sauce de relations ennuyeuses et insupportablement hystériques, c'est vraiment à en perdre la tête. (13/10/2020)

Timo Tjahjanto is undoubtedly Indonesia's greatest butcher and talent, and this year he is on a rampage for the second time. May the Devil Take You is a solid mix of Evil Dead, Drag me to Hell and, most importantly, it feels like a throwback to Hong Kong in the 90s when similar madness was quite common, but nowadays is very rare. In the end, the film is surprisingly not the carnage I was hoping for. He probably won't surpass his debut Macabre, and he did more with gore in the recent actioner The Night Comes for Us, but there are still a few tasty bits, the highlights being the poking around in the entrails of a buried corpse, playing with Voodoo and a scene where the demon rips the skin off his face. That said, the film quite atmospherically creepy, intense with an intense soundtrack and excellent make-up effects (the demon is very unpleasant), and it's very well paced, so all in all I'm satisfied. The weaker actors and the mediocre story didn't bother me, but someone will complain. Next is the horror movie DreadOut, which we'll see either at the end of the year or in 2019. 75%. (22/11/2018)

The Indonesian film May the Devil Take You wants to be an atmospheric film on the one hand, and quite a brutal horror on the other. I think it's particularly good at the brutal aspects, where in some scenes, even if you close your eyes, you'll get a very uncomfortable feeling in your stomach simply from what you're actually hearing. It is good in this respect, but unfortunately not very revelatory in terms of plot. (08/04/2019)