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Title: A bad one-act play stretched out to 86 minutes...
Review: The first ten minutes of DEVIL'S ROCK are tense and gripping - so, two stars instead of one... But once the Allied soldiers are in the Nazi stronghold, the movie devolves into a three-character, two-set play, with NOTHING happening, for the bulk of the movie. Somehow, the demon summoned by the Nazis to win World War II is the ultimate weapon - except for the fact that she can be shackled with ordinary iron shackles, and then is completely powerless. That leaves the surviving soldier, and his Nazi captor, to BICKER, for the bulk of the endless 86 minutes. Tedium ensues...and when the demon finally stops shape-shifting into the soldier's dead wife - gee, where have we seen THAT before? - and shows her true red horned self, she looks like a pissed-off extra from HELLBOY. The actors are talented, the few locations are spooky - so, overall this feels like a decent opportunity wasted by a script that might've worked better as a short.
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