LUCIFER: Shit.

Review of The Devil Conspiracy (2023) by screenqueeen: 👍 4/5

This is some wigged out shit Alex Proyas WISHES he could've orchestrated. Instead Nathan Frankowski gets the sublime privilege to execute a page one rewrite of THE PROPHECY that finally cashes in on all the insane stuff you want to see in a Christsploitation flick.

Did this need to be almost 2 hours long? No!

But if they cut the "nonessential stuff" that would mean we wouldn't see Laura in a nightmare where the ultrasound of her baby bleeds into a RINGU-esque vision of horror that shows the dark blue, black and white screen apparition of her demon child transforming from an unsettling 2D image into a heart-jolting 3D CGI model with sharp teeth crawling out of the hospital monitor, leaping at the camera.

We wouldn't see a group of satanic worshippers get ruthlessly and gruesomely decapitated by a deleted Silent Hill boss in the form of a lumbering giant of mysterious bestial origin wielding a medium-sized blade on a long gigantic chain that becomes so gleefully dark you're really not sure what side Frankowski is on in the making of DEVIL CONSPIRACY.

There are other parts that astound here but there are simply far too many to recall unless you took meticulous notes while watching, and I was too busy taking in this film and living life to its fullest. At times this feels like the MCU of god movies and during multiple times while watching I was WISHING comic book movies were more unafraid to do shit like this (do NOT bring DEADPOOL into this, that is meticulously composed reply guy banter dialogue masquerading as scripts and filmmaking).

But the grace that this movie exudes is entirely dependent on not dwelling on the bizarre nature of the choices this makes. I am only slightly surprised that this wasn't made as an attempt to gain the confidence of the already religious. I mean unless the devout thirst for the visceral maiming of fictitious deep state dark worshipers, this has what those bible thumpers crave.