While wifey Glenys was watching Ant n Dec last night I took myself on to YouTube to see if I could find a film and I only did and something I had never seen before “The Devil's Rock” (2011).
Wow! Was I ever wrong about this movie? The idea works! Keeping me on the edge of my seat, suitably entertained, creeped-out, and wondering what would come next from start to finish. A WWII backdrop for this horrifying adventure/thriller in which two Kiwi (i.e. New Zealand) commandos, Grogan and Tane infiltrate a Nazi-occupied Channel Islands fortress to sabotage its artillery emplacements on the eve of D-Day.
From the start though, something is clearly amiss. Shrieks fill the air when they enter the bunker which was eerily deserted but for freshly mutilated bodies of German soldiers -lots of them. It turns out the Nazis were conducting research into the occult in an attempt to find a strategic military advantage over the Allies.
The Nazi colonel in charge, Meyer is a very nasty Nazi who kills Tane but for a brief appearance in the film later. Meyer is used a book of black magic to raise a demon, who can shapeshift and spends most of the film looking like Grogan’s dead wife for obvious reasons. The demon is a crafty and a devious piece of work with a taste for human flesh but is held captured by Meyer.
Meyer needs to convince Grogan to help him send the demon back to hell only if they can trust one another. Grogan and Meyer agree to cooperate to send the demon back to hell it means delving into some black magic.
But the demon has other designs, which include eating human entrails and achieving spontaneous climaxes from any bloodletting she can provoke between Grogan and Meyer while subverting their agreement. Terrifying, but hellishly beautiful and nude, she alternately assumes the form of Grogan's dead wife Helena, as she attempts to seduce him and derail any attempt to vanquish her.
Like all films, there is an ending but you will have to watch it for that. There is a full copy on YouTube.
The Devil's Rock holds its own with three effective plot twists, competent acting, and convincing dialogue, and most of all, with memorably creative makeup effects and lots of gore.
My Film Rating
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