The Devil's Carnival (2012)
Genre: Horror / Music
Duration: 55 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Darren Lynn Bousman
Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery and Briana Evigan
IMDb score:
5,9 (4.909)
Releasedate: 5 April 2012
The Devil's Carnival plot
"You can't help but fall."
In 'The Devil's Carnival', sinners are invited by the devil to an amusement park where they have to endure their sins again. Lucifer and his colorful cast of prostitutes guide these lost souls through the wild amusement park.
Actors and actresses
John
Ms. Merrywood
The Magician
Tamara
Ticket-Keeper
God
Lucifer
Wick
The Twin
The Scorpion
Reviews & comments
Onderhond
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- 87698 messages
- 13095 votes
Meh.
Didn't expect much from it either, I didn't think Repo was that great either and this is clearly in the same style. Visually it's pretty good, nice colours and very atmospheric sets. A circus is a pretty good setting for a film like this.
The problem lies with the somewhat too rubbery characters (the devil) and of course the numbers. I find them often detract from the atmosphere, apart from the clown number all very poorly performed. Furthermore I found the division into even shorter stories a bit strange, certainly considering the already very short playing time of this film.
Apparently this is something Bousman needs to get out of his system. I will continue to follow him, but I don't think I'll find these videos really good any time soon.
1.5*
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Shadowed
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- 11670 messages
- 6867 votes
Bousman.
He is one of those. A director who has his heart in the horror genre, but probably in a completely different place than we think. We may know him best from his mainstream horror, but when he takes the creativity in his own hands, horror musicals come out. Of a remarkable level.
The Devil's Carnival is particularly notable because it plays out in a single setting for the entire film. In it, all sorts of figures walk around that you can probably name 5 minutes later, but that's not really necessary. It already feels like a kind of colleague party, but then assisted by a camera and a progression that thunders on for 55 minutes.
The acting is fun and the characters really get into their roles. Somewhere it is also good in terms of decoration, but those are rare scenes. All in all I thought it was a bit too simply constructed by a director who mainly wanted to have fun and did not want to think about it much. Fun as an experiment, but qualitatively not very great.
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