I Trapped the Devil is a 2019 American supernatural horror film written, produced, edited, and directed by Josh Lobo in his feature film directorial debut. Plus it adds another present to be opened over and over for the Christmas season. Josh Lobo’s indie thriller ‘I Trapped the Devil‘ officially hit limited theaters and VOD platforms this weekend and his debut film focuses on a man’s psychological unraveling as he comes to terms with whatever is locked in his basement. Excuse me? The man says, “please help; I can’t stop the bleeding.”. I Trapped the Devil ultimately has just enough meat on its bones to stick with viewers willing to plunge into its grim, nightmarish world. Left alone, Karen returns to the basement door to unlock it as the man’s voice pleads with her. Where did you find him? Alan sees a vision of Santa in the television static. Karen confronts Steve in the kitchen. “I Trapped the Devil” undergoes a certain slackening in tension around the two-thirds point, just before the climactic action begins. It's a dramatic slow burn with saturating crimson lighting and a strong and suspenseful score, similar to something you'd see in an A24 film like Hereditary or The Witch. Information is power. Before she can act, Steve renders Karen unconscious with chloroform and locks her in the basement. Screens tell me a story. This year, FrightFest celebrated their 20 th bloody year and what a celebration the bank holiday weekend in August was. Steve speaks cryptically about the tragic accident that took the lives of his wife Sarah and their young daughter. The two brothers have a conversation about their broken relationship. Website powered by Foundation, By Bryan Rindfuss, San Antonio Current Staff |. Matt insists that he doesn’t want Steve to go to prison and suggests they simply let the man go and get mental help for Steve. Karen refuses to be complicit in a possible crime and demands action be taken. The power flickers. Also, what in the hell kind of knot did you use to tie up the all-powerful Devil with anyway? I Trapped the Devil (2019) PHOTO: IFC Films But even at barely 82-minutes in length the film sometimes feels a bit padded, almost as if this script originally started out as a short and then the director got financing for a feature so he stretched things out a little longer even if he didn’t have very many ideas as to the best way to do just that. Join the San Antonio Press Club for as little as $5 a month. How did you catch the Devil, Steve? the Devil roams the Earth.. Alan and Karen end up shooting each other. She stares at the hunter with such fear and evil in her eyes. Steve goes upstairs, distraught. After a slightly confusing in media res opening, I Trapped the Devil begins with the inconspicuous arrival of Matt (AJ Bowen) and Karen (Susan Burke), who have come to Matt’s family home to visit his brother, Steve (Scott Poythress), on a cold winter evening. A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas. Steve pleads with Matt and Karen to believe him, adding that he knows his claim sounds crazy, but they cannot tell anyone else because no one will believe it either. Mattie? Not to mention you're trapped in a Devil's Trap. While Matt escapes and reconnects with his wife, Steve encounters a vision of a longhaired man holding Steve’s daughter’s stuffed bunny toy in two pieces. Matt goes to free the man in the basement. Why do you think he is the Devil? Entranced by the atmosphere, Ben opens the door. Instead, it opts for an extremely slow affair, one which aims to provoke but ultimately falls flat. “I Trapped the Devil” undergoes a certain slackening in tension around the two-thirds point, just before the climactic action begins. We drove all this way just to see you. A little girl walks past the entranced cop as well as Matt and Karen’s bodies slumped on the floor. San Antonio Current With Scott Poythress, AJ Bowen, Susan Burke, Rowan Russell. Goddammit! Wicked Horror will once again be there to bring you all the must-read reviews and exclusive interviews from this year’s festival. Her facial expression says it all, "I'm gonna kill you". » Film. After way too much circular conversation and sulking, Steve finally shows his cards. On face value, for many, it will be a lot harder to gauge. Steve shows Matt a flyer for a missing girl who recently returned home. so he could punish the damned on. HAYDEN Of course you don't. Based on the blacked-out windows and odd atmosphere, Matt tells Karen that something feels wrong. 2019s I Trapped the Devil 2019s I Trapped the Devil, directed by Josh Lobo in his debut, is about Matt and Karen who unexpectedly show up at Matt's brothers house for Christmas. In fact, while the film is beautifully realized, visually speaking, its script moves sluggishly and provides very little pay-off to viewers in its conclusion. When they return upstairs, Steve dodges questions about details by simply saying that something evil conjured itself into the shape of a man, and he trapped it behind the door. Learn how and when to remove this template message, "I Trapped the Devil: Things get bloody in this exclusive clip", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I_Trapped_the_Devil&oldid=1022520025, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention from August 2020, All Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 10 May 2021, at 23:50. It stars A. J. Bowen, Scott Poythress, Susan Theresa Burke, Jocelin Donahue, and Chris Sullivan. Whether it's a one-time acknowledgement of this article or an ongoing membership pledge, your support goes to local-based reporting from our small but mighty team. I Trapped The Devil hat eine großartige Idee und Ausgangssituation. Steve adds, “evil is whatever hurts you the most.”. You guys, uh, you can't stay here. Either way, with a title like I Trapped the Devil, the horror movie needed to be much more stimulating than this. Matt Rogerson takes a look at the latest release from IFC Midnight, hitting US theatres and on demand 26 April. The imprisoned man taunts Karen by saying they can save Matt together if she opens the door. His threats and demands don't phrase her at all. We've, By San Antonio Current Staff |  After taking another phone call, Steve locks Matt in the pattern room. The unexpected company, of course, freaks out the anxious Steve, which, in turn, rattles Matt who becomes uneasy about whatever situation he and Karen have stepped into. 3. Our readers helped us continue this coverage in 2020, and we are so grateful for the support. A character would walk slowly in a room, looking around at the signs of Steve’s madness. I Trapped the Devil isn’t going to end up on my end-of-year list of 2019’s best horror movies, but that doesn’t make it any less memorable or worthwhile. Karen tells Matt something is wrong even though she can’t explain it. Scott Pothress, Susan Burke, and A.J. I Trapped the Devil is a lot more clever than I initially thought. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 75% based on 36 reviews, with an average rating of 6.38/10. Steve claims that by trapping the devil, he has trapped the seed of evil thoughts and instincts that the devil exploits. Matt and his wife Karen arrive unexpectedly to visit Matt’s troubled brother Steve for the Christmas holidays. I Trapped the Devil (2019) Production Company Der weihnachtliche Besuch von Matt und Karen bei ihrem Bruder Steve läuft ein klein wenig aus dem Ruder, als diese entdecken, dass der Besuchte offensichtlich den leibhaftigen Teufel in seinem Keller eingesperrt hat. Steve astonishingly claims that the imprisoned man is the devil. Full Review. © 2021 Karen goes back downstairs. The man pleads for Alan to open the door. What's all this? Steve? Matt dies. Instead, Lobo’s vision is a talky, often clever potboiler wrapped around a single question: Is Steve right? So Hayden tries another approach to get information from her. No carollers call, nobody is decking the halls. Writer/director Josh Lobo's feature debut I Trapped the Devil owes a heavy debt to the aforementioned episode and the Charles Beaumont short story it's adapted from, though no credit of acknowledgement is offered. What was it supposed to be like? Reviews of I Trapped the Devil. I Trapped the Devil introduces viewers to married couple Matt (AJ Bowen) and Karen (Susan Burke), who have decided to surprise Matt’s reclusive brother Steve (Scott Poythress) with a stop at his house for Christmas. Steve adds that he thinks someone or something also influenced Matt to show up at this critical juncture in the devil’s imprisonment. them, pretending to be one of them. I Trapped the Devil ultimately has just enough meat on its bones to stick with viewers willing to plunge into its grim, nightmarish world. “Mentally, I’m not sure where he is,” a concerned Matt says. Matt insists that the man is not the devil. I Trapped The Devil follows the latter approach; this 2018 movie was written, edited and directed by Josh Lobo. I was not expecting company. Steve pulls Karen out of the basement. It stars A. J. Bowen, Scott Poythress, Susan Theresa Burke, Jocelin Donahue, and Chris Sullivan. about how. I Trapped the Devil hits VOD platforms April 26. Our Score ← WORTH (2018) THE DIRECTIVE (2019) → Jim Morazzini. « Fake It Till You Make It: JT Leroy is a Knotty Narrative with Effortless Performances By Laura Dern and Kristen Stewart, Is it mandatory to enjoy eye-popping movies such as, Director and San Antonio native Paul Briggs on bringing emotion to Disney’s, Actress and San Antonio native Katie Leclerc lands cameo on Netflix's. Home; Movies; I Trapped the Devil [banging on door] Anyone home? I always believed my mother was. Following several tense conversations between the three of them, Steve shows Matt and Karen a padlocked door bearing a cross in the basement. Matt asks who has been calling Steve on the phone. Mit drei Charakteren, wenigen Räumen und einer verriegelten Tür im Keller, aus der eine unheimliche Stimme dringt, muss man schon ein stringentes Script haben, um daraus etwas zu machen. Realizing she is not real as the vision becomes more terrifying, Steve prepares to shoot Sarah. Steve tells Karen he knows she felt something evil. April 25, 2019 Steve also tells Karen that she can see “her” if she opens the door. This is the time of year. Woken by a strange feeling, Matt reexamines Steve’s pattern walls. The site's consensus reads, "A slow burning horror story that takes spine-tingling advantage of it's setting and cast, I Trapped the Devil marks an auspicious debut for writer-director Josh Lobo". Subscribe now to get the latest news delivered right to your inbox. I TRAPPED THE DEVIL (2019) No sleigh bells ring, no snow glistens. A singularly odd, intense, and very creepy first feature that gets in, does the job, and gets out in less than 90 minutes, it’s the kind of movie that defies easy categorization. Wikipedia. The touring big-top, By San Antonio Current Staff |  Steve boards up several windows. Matt and Karen shake Steve back to reality. He tells Matt and Karen that he has captured the Devil — in the form of a man — in his basement. And we believe everyone deserves access to accurate independent coverage of their community and state. I Trapped the Devil is a genuinely creepy film and a very auspicious debut for Lobo. When an odd feeling causes Karen to hesitate, the man begins taunting her. Support Local Journalism. He also points his guests to a room where he has made a diagram (the cliché kind with red string seen in many movies about serial killers and conspiracy theorists) and keeps an ancient book he says proves the man in his basement is really the proprietor of Hell. The gunshots summon Ben to the cellar. would be gathered together. Matt forces his brother to put down the gun. While pointing his handgun at her and Matt, Steve questions Karen regarding what the man said to her. Steve shows Matt a book that identifies the devil as a presence that manipulates people into committing heinous acts such as murder. Wanting to understand his brother’s reasoning, Matt entertains the idea that Steve captured the devil. click to enlarge. In I Trapped the Devil, first-time writer and director Josh Lobo conceals the incarnation of Satan and challenges audiences to decide for themselves whether or not the Devil is actually part of the narrative. Movie Scripts > "I" page 7 > I Trapped The Devil (2019) I Trapped The Devil (2019) 1 Anyone home? Steve falls asleep too. Directed by Josh Lobo. Was er daraus macht endet aber leider in den mitunter längsten 80 Minuten die ich je gesehen habe. After finding Steve’s body, Alan goes downstairs. Local journalism is information. Someone has a very special yuletide visitor…but it isn’t Santa. I Trapped The Devil plays at Frightfest 2019 at 11PM on Saturday, 24 August 2019 on the Prince Charles Cinema Discovery Screen Two.The full festival line-up of films is available on their official site, where all ticketing information can also be found. With its tight, paranoid script and frequent use of an unsettling red light he keeps the tension mounting. Join the San Antonio Current Press Club 40 minutes into I Trapped the Devil, the viewer finally encounters the enigmatic voice behind the door in the basement for the first time. After all, it was absolutely no idea, lifeless and the only thing you were One wishes that this boredom should finally end. I Trapped the Devil doesn’t have this. IFC Midnight will release it to select cinemas and on VOD April 26 th. I Trapped the Devil is a 2019 American supernatural horror film written, produced, edited, and directed by Josh Lobo in his feature film directorial debut. The Devil has taken countless forms in cinematic history — from a voluptuous British vixen in the 2000 comedy remake of Bedazzled to a dead-eyed, black goat in the 2015 horror folktale The Witch. It premiered at the Imagine Film Festival on April 12, 2019, and IFC Midnight released the film theatrically in the United States and simultaneously via video-on-demand platforms on April 26, 2019. Another vision of Sarah in TV static wakes Steve. There’s no revelation. May 1, 2021. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. 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