Devil Story (Il etait une fois le diable)

Fun when the man is randomly trying to shoot the horse. Awful otherwise

James (Schaffrillas)

Things I loved: • The French countryside setting • The (at times) Rollin-like vibe • The Gothic hotel • The Egyptian mummy • The pirate ship Things I viscerally hated: All the drawn out scenes containing: • The grunting Nazi zombie* • The unkillable neighing horse* • The…

Lou (doesn't rhyme with booh! 👻)

Adam Cook did most of the heavy lifting with his review of this film, so I'm just going to enumerate the various ways in which Devil Story is a batshit-crazy-but-still-kind-of-awesome cinematic treat. To wit: 1. The name of the film is Devil Story. However, there is no…

Cramer K.

Complete and utter horseshit, to the degree that it actually becomes wholly oneiric. A pinprick margin away from an accurate representation of the experience of dreaming; to be more direct, the kind of abstract nightmare where you wake up in a puddle of sweat and…

Jay 👽

"I gotta catch that horse. If I shoot it with this gun, I'll get the horse. Damn, I missed the horse. I gotta catch that horse. If I shoot it with this gun, I'll get the horse. Damn, I missed the horse. I gotta catch that horse. If I shoot it with this gun, I'll get the…

PT99

Like a bizarro dopey cousin of Ogroff the Mad Mutilator, Devil's Story is a hazy lofi fever dream of nonsensical proportions. Incoherent visual vignettes blast the screen with little consistency or logic as we are engulfed in a thick cloud of low budget weirdery and jarring…

belial_carboni

meandering French horror cinema that's more Rollin than Romero, despite what its marketing and synopsis would have you believe - decidedly art-house in its delivery with a laconic script and minimal reliance on gore (save for an appropriately disgusting stomach crushing);…

Justin LaLiberty

The French really get me.  First my fascination with the silent, camera-trickery of Georges Méliès. Then my obsession with the new French extremity and the new, new French extremity. And now with countryside murderdrones.  Devil Story (or its objectively cooler name Once…

SpOoky Lukey Video 👻📼🎃

We have a girl, wandering aimless as if in a dream, into a castle, into a graveyard, into a Jean Rollin film? What is this Devil? What is this Witch? A Ghost Horse and a Man with a Gun. The Ocean is a Pirate Hurricane of Black Water. It's ANGRY. A Sarcophagus with a Mummy…

Scumbalina