bighungryboi Review of Devil's Backbone, Texas

Devil's Backbone, Texas (2015)

Promising, But Didn't Live Up To Its Potential.

[6/10 · 4 February 2016]

For the "found footage" genre, this film certainly stands out. Not just because of its documentary style elements, but also because its actually interesting. For a while. In the very beginning, the documentary card is played heavily, and is done very well, but things begin to go down hill when the group gets to the ranch. While it may be kind of cliché, what happens from the time the group gets to the ranch until Jake goes missing is pretty well written but could have been executed better, however the real problem is with the very ending of the film. All the supernatural buildup that the film did a really good job of putting together is thrown out the window in favor of it all being a prank, and then in a sudden twist the characters are killed by some unseen entity. I think a cliché ending of "guy goes crazy" was trying to be avoided, the only problem is, they had a really good "guy goes crazy" put together. I think if some other way was found to communicate the presence of the supernatural and show that Bert Wall was right the film definitely would have went above and beyond. All and all its put together well and is a fresh take on the found film genre, but definitely didn't hit as hard as it could have