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I Trapped the Devil is 82 minutes long, but probably 70 of those minutes are you waiting for something else to happen. I’m not complaining, exactly, the movie is extremely well done and the suspense is so thick you could only cut through it with a machete. But at some point you realize they’re dragging it out. Painfully so. Then it occurs to you that if the ending isn’t absolutely killer you’re going to be sad and shitty.
Possible psychosis victim and general loner Steve gets a visit from his brother Matt and sister-in-law Karen around Christmas. He tells them they can’t stay but they don’t realize he actually has the devil trapped in his basement. He begs them to just believe him. They refuse to leave or believe. Now they all have a problem, they think Steve may be dangerous and Steve knows it’s only a matter of time before they end up letting the devil out of the basement. This shit is going to get deep and weird so you should probably put on your WTF pants.
By the time you get to the ending, your nerves will be a little shot. My wife wasn’t exactly impressed and googled the ending before we got to it. I thought it was decent, but not amazing. Definitely could have been much worse. An emotionally oppressive film, 8 layers of newspaper clippings covering your attic out of 10.
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