I Trapped the Devil Review

Review of I Trapped the Devil (2019) by screenqueeen: 👍 3/5

An odd combination of an independent film wanting to be a character study of grappling with depression & grief while trying to appeal to genre fans with the mere insertion of a boogeyman.

Spends too much on the former in an attempt to balance the scales and as a result the duality of its tones suffer, especially since the tension of what is true that it puts forth is preceded and followed by a third party confirming those notions, effectively neutralizing it.

The drama is read-between-the-lines which is fine, but never truly makes a statement which is disappointing since mental health in horror gets so much disrespectful representation and grief-as-horror is overplayed as a clutch device.