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The Devonsville Terror review by Terry Wickham
This is the second film on the double feature DVD presented by Anchor Bay. You get two Ulli Lommel films for the price of one, which honestly isn't a bad deal. I guess Lommel liked the shooting environment he found working in Wisconsin doing The Boogeyman and uses the beautiful state as the setting of Devonsville Terror. This film is an overall improvement over his first film. The acting is a bit more natural and there are not as many forced lines. Suzanna Love returns as Lommel's leading lady. This time she has red hair instead of being a brunette. She's good in the role of the small town's new schoolteacher. The film has a prologue that takes place in 1683. Three attractive women, who are sexually active, are tortured and burned at the stake by the town of Devonsville. They do this to the women for supposedly being witches. One of the women is struck by lightning; her soul rises above with the promise that she will return to take vengeance on the town. This is the biggest laugh from the film, as Lommel catches the woman's burning face, shrinks it into a round ball and floats it up into the air. It visually looks ridiculous and I got a good laugh from it. Donald Pleasence plays the town’s doctor who has been cursed by having worms inside his body. In a couple scenes, we get to see Pleasence remove these little yellow worms with a tweezers. It's disgusting and the special effects work in these scenes. Suzanna Love's glowing red hair gives her a similar look to the blonde woman who was murdered 300 years prior. The men of Devonsville realize this late in the film and attempt to do what their forefathers did before them. If
you'd like to see a nice little supernatural revenge film, this
wouldn't be a bad way to spend 82 minutes.
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