So many of the scenes in this film were acted as if they were filming a low budget p**no. I am a huge Tony Todd fan, like epically huge, and this is hands down the worst performance of his career. It's like he saw that the rest of the acting was so bad that he decided to make his acting be bad to match theirs. They tried to jump the storyline around to make the point interesting I guess but they just jumped the story around and made it stupid and convoluted. I'm genuinely mad that I spent $6 to watch this movie. Like I genuinely want my money back. I was very hyped for this movie and now I'm very disappointed. Some of the scenes were well done. The set for the house was very beautiful and realistic. Most of the other sets not realistic.

So horrendously bad & low budget that even casting the Candyman himself couldn't help it. The acting & historical accents were atrocious. The scenes depicting slaves/slavery were so cringy that I had second hand embarrassment. The story & plot went from bad to worse, cheap set designs & bad costumes...idk how many ways I can say bad... En Español; mala, poor, awful, dreadful, crummy, lousy.... Movies often require us to suspend our beliefs but the best films are at least somewhat based in reality, this was pure nonsense.... The demon coming back wearing a cheap synthetic braid wig after he died with a low cut minutes prior or a cop administering a "lie detector test" in a hospital to a shaken, crying, & upset patient just moments after their attack. I mean the whole point of the test is to monitor stress levels right... nvm! Just skip this!

Devilreux is a low budget- borderline homemade horror- featuring a shovel-wielding Baron Samedi type character, with a backstory about being the son of a Voodoo witch, that was murdered by a family of racist slaveowners, before being brought back by his mother...to reap vengeance from beyond the grave.

The character, himself, is alright.

But the rest of the acting is so laughingly bad.

It makes it hard to take the film seriously.

Especially considering the poor plot structure around which the story is based.

Which I'd chock up to director Thomas J Churchill having way too many projects on the go at once.

Because it jumps around way too much, and lacks cohesion.

Going from the opening sequence; to a completely unrelated case, used to introduce the backstory of the character; followed by a lengthy (much too drawn out) flashback sequence, that comes off as a bit redundant- and feels like it should have been the basis for the film as a whole (as opposed to taking place on the two different timelines).

The flashback needed to be much shorter, and more succinct, to prevent it from ruining the flow of the film.

Considering the length it is, it should, at least, have been used as the opening- before jumping forward in time, to the present- with a bunch of scenes cut for lack of importance.

The main problem is, that they take no time at all, to develop the characters we are supposed to care about.

So it never manages to fully engage you on any front.

A condemnation that results from the overuse of time and resources on the development of the backstory.

And it's lack of cohesion, overall.

The best things about the film are definitely the sets and costumes.

Which come off as impressive, in relation to the low budget feel the rest of the film gives off.

However, they aren't enough to save this from being the travesty it is.

Because it flows so badly...that it's impossible to care about any of the plethora of characters that are introduced.

So this gets a hard pass from me.

2 out of 10.