Devil movie who is the killer

They quickly annoy one another - one doesn't like being called senile and another claims to suffer from claustrophobia - but when the lights go off and one of the five is killed, it all takes on a rather different complexion.

The policeman in charge of the case is Det. Bowden, a recovering alcoholic who has yet to get over the death of his wife and child in an auto accident. As the passengers are killed, one by one, the rescuers work frantically to get access to the elevator car. One of the high-rise security guards however is convinced that it's all the work of the Devil.

Sign In. Edit Devil Jump to: Summaries 3 Synopsis 1. The synopsis below may give away important plot points. He said that preparing for his death scene, which took four days to shoot, was the hardest scene to shoot except for the introduction and closing. Based on recent film clips, Ysamur Flores and the directors of Devil , John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, explain that the movie is based on a Devil's Meeting, which is a premise that the Devil is on Earth to test evildoers by tormenting them.

Shyamalan acknowledged that the basic structure of the story was "an Agatha Christie nod. The final plot twist is also the same, with the villain being revealed as one of the group who was thought to have died earlier in the story.

Additionally, a main character in both stories is named Tony, and both killed two people with a car. However, Tony Marston, the one from the novel, dies first, where Tony Janekowski in the film does not die at all. The film was set to have a release date on February 11, , but was bumped up to September 17, The film's trailer debuted online on July 13, The film was not screened to critics in advance. Devil has received mixed reviews.

Night Shyamalan has been associated with, but Devil never gets more than a few low-budget thrills out of its fiendishly promising premise. Night Shyamalan-produced Devil is nothing very special or original, but it gets the job done briskly and economically. On June 23, , Shyamalan announced the second film in The Night Chronicles , titled 12 Strangers at first, but later changed the title to Reincarnate.

The film is about a jury discussing a case dealing with the supernatural. Chris Sparling is set to write the script and Daniel Stamm will be the director.

Shyamalan has also confirmed that the story for the currently untitled third installment is actually going to be taken from the abandoned sequel of Unbreakable. Agatha Christie Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central.

Register Don't have an account? Devil film. History Talk 0. Universal Conquest Wiki. Vincent Laresca Henry as Henry. Craig Eldridge Donnelly as Donnelly. Genadijs Dolganovs Janitor as Janitor. John Erick Dowdle. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In Philadelphia, Detective Bowden is still grieving for his wife and son, killed in a hit-and-run five years ago.

When someone jumps from a skyscraper onto a truck, Bowden is sent to investigate. Meanwhile, five strangers are trapped in an elevator in the building where the jumper committed suicide. The communication radio in the elevator is broken but the guards, Lustig and Ramirez, observe the individuals via CCTV as events unfold. Tensions run high among those trapped, so Lustig calls the police and Detective Bowden assumes the case.

Without being able to contact the individuals, he tries to work out who they are, but he can only account for four of them.

Time is running out for the occupants of the elevator, as Bowden realizes he has to get them out quickly. Rated PG for violence and disturbing images, thematic material and some language including sexual references.

Did you know Edit. Trivia The end credits do not call any of the people trapped in the elevator by their names, just their occupations or what they are, e. Goofs 9 minutes into the film, as the elevator door closes, the last Passenger puts his arm in the way to stop it, but it is not visible in the mirror. This reveals that, to avoid revealing the camera in the mirror, they superimposed video into the scene.

Quotes [last lines] Ramirez : [voiceover] After my mother would finish her story, she would always comfort us. Crazy credits Upside down shots from a helicopter of a city as the opening credits roll.

User reviews Review. Top review. Good movie. I thought this was a really good movie, it definitely kept you guessing until the end. Should have been longer though, it ended very suddenly. Would have been an excellent movie if it would have lengthened a bit.