In fact, from the offset, audiences will undoubtedly find themselves correctly predicting each plot development as it occurs, and unravel the true intentions of many of the more dubious characters long before the film’s twists have been executed. The film essentially plays out like we expect it to Colm Meaney’s creepy, sleazy depiction of a puritanical preacher who may have ulterior motives for wanting to ‘examine’ the bodies of a group of young women Rufus Sewell’s stern, yet ultimately caring father figure who seems to fall on the side of pragmatism and rationality in the face of prophecies and predictions (this, despite the fact he has chosen to raise his family in a segregated, rural community of evangelical Christians) and, of course, the disapproving stepmother, who believes Mary and her friends are given too much free reign within the conservative society.
It is difficult to truly engage in either the characters or story, such is the rather uninspiring use of plot and character development. In many ways, the film’s visual impact is its saving grace. Where The Devil Hides fits into this bracket. But often these films benefit from the eye-catching, gothic aesthetic that befits the depiction of a stark, sombre, Puritan society.
WHERE THE DEVIL HIDES MOVIE
The religious cult horror movie is perhaps one of the least celebrated of sub-genres, when you consider the attention paid to slashers, zombies and sharks in the modern age. As the girls are murdered one by one, both Mary (Alycia Debnam Carey) and her father Jacob (Rufus Sewell) begin to doubt whether their leaders truly have their best interests at heart.
Colm Meaney plays Elder Beacon, the psychopathic, tyrannical leader of the community who leads a campaign of suspicion and damnation against the young women. According to prophecy, one of the women will emerge as Satan on the day of their joint 18th birthdays to take up a reign of terror and devour the souls of the living. Five young women are suspected of being the devil incarnate by the devout religious community in which they live.
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