{"id":21342,"date":"2016-07-07T01:12:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T05:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21342"},"modified":"2016-07-07T01:12:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T05:12:48","slug":"devil-girl-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/07\/devil-girl-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil Girl (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Devil_Girl-Poster\"<\/a>In an isolated desert town, a girl travelling cross country after the death of her father has car trouble after a drag race.\u00a0 This forces her to stay in town for a while which means finding a place to stay, getting work, and mingling with the locals.\u00a0 She ends up dealing with a weird motel owner, a preacher with odd leanings, a clown-faced man, and a stunning devil girl.<\/p>\n

\u201cDevil Girl\u201d is directed by Howie Askins who co-wrote with Tracy Wilcox Gillie.\u00a0 The story they put together here should be a great story considering its components, but instead of focusing on the titular Devil Girl, they relegate her to a few too short appearances, letting the film be about Fay, the girl on a road trip who ends up working as a stripper to survive.\u00a0 The story also has a clown who seems to have been added for shock and weirdness factor which he does bring , but for all his screen time, he has very little impact on the story until the very end where he could easily have a been replaced.<\/p>\n

The characters are decently written but not given much of interest to do.\u00a0 The few twists and turns in the story are not quite enough to make it riveting or even all that interesting. Most of the cast gives ok performances with few stand-outs.\u00a0 Lead actress Jessica Graham gets the most screen time and gives a good performance through most of it but she does look absolutely bored in a few scenes, most specifically the strip club scenes where once can guess she was trying to convey discomfort or shame as she did get the job reluctantly.\u00a0 The one actress who really stands out the most and only gets a few scenes is Vanessa Kay who is the Devil Girl.<\/p>\n

She has a very short time to make an impression but makes the most of it with a performance full of glee and charm, giving good reason for the movie to be named after her minor character. With a film called Devil Girl, one would expect more of a horror film but this is not it.\u00a0 There is a little blood and some special effects; the design of the Devil Girl is pretty and sexy, her outfit being nearly nothing but red paint, which leads to a stunning attractive presence on screen for the curvy actress.\u00a0 The main point of interest here, outside of the red hot girl, is the cars.\u00a0 A bunch of old school muscle cars, racing each other and being eye candy.<\/p>\n

For all of its muscle cars and the sexiness of the title character, the film is quite bland, boosting a group of basic, expected desert town settings and a lackluster story.\u00a0 The film uses occasionally shaky camera and a lot of mild grindhouse looks to add to its story but it just doesn\u2019t grab the viewer to make them care.\u00a0 The last act twist basically kills the entire film and story built so far.<\/p>\n