Demon - don't trust a soul
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Demon - Don't trust a soul. Fall - Don't trust a soul |
| Original title | Falling |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 123 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gregory Hoblit |
| script | Nicholas Kazan |
| production | Nicholas Kazan |
| music | Tan Dun |
| camera | Newton Thomas Sigel |
| cut | Lawrence Jordan |
| occupation | |
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Demon - Don't Trust a Soul or Traps - Don't Trust a Soul is a thriller by Gregory Hoblit from 1998.
action
The plot is narrated by a first-person narrator who tells how he almost died once.
The serial killer Edgar Reese was executed in the gas chamber , while Detective John Hobbes, who was investigating him, believes that all problems have now been resolved. Shortly after the execution, new murders are reported that bear the signature of the dead Reese. Hobbes and his colleague Jonesy investigate and encounter increasingly mysterious circumstances. The executed man speaks fluent Old Aramaic in a video recorded for Hobbes before his death .
The events precipitate - unknown passers-by speak to Hobbes - in them there is the demon Azazel, who can switch from body to body by touching it.
Hobbes continues his research and learns that the demon is only viable outside a body for a few seconds.
In the end, however, Hobbes kills a passerby in self-defense into whom the demon has driven and is suspended from duty. After the death of his brother, he brings his son to safety and retires alone to a lonely hut in the forest. But finally his colleague Jonesy and his superior Lt. Stanton to arrest him.
But the arrest takes a surprising turn - Jonesy shoots Stanton, it becomes clear: Azazel has taken possession of him.
In the showdown, Hobbes manages to fatally injure Jonesy. When Azazel speaks from it, Hobbes draws his last ace: he smokes a poisoned cigarette. He hopes that both (or all three) will die in the wasteland.
But when Jonesy and Hobbes died, Azazel succeeded in taking possession of a cat's body. It turns out that the first-person narrator who wanted to tell how he almost died once was Azazel.
criticism
"With an intelligent plot, well-humored actors and a certain mysteriousness, 'Demon - Don't trust a soul' manages to maintain the tension until the surprising end and let the audience leave the cinema satisfied."
“Even in the role of the ambitious detective John Hobbes, Denzel Washington can give a very convincing performance. Neither story nor tension are neglected, so it can be said that the film is extremely worth watching. "
“'Demon - Trau Keiner Seele' is a precision landing and absolutely to be recommended. Tension, story and staging form a harmonious symbiosis here. "
“A horror and mystery thriller told as a retrospective, whose stylistic versatility is as impressive as the surprising ending turns the viewer's perspective upside down. The borrowings from the 'supernatural' remain without any substantive reflection and only serve as diabolically impregnated material for a murder story. "
Awards
The film received the nomination for the International Horror Guild Award in 1999.
Nicholas Kazan was nominated for the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for the script .
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Others
The subject of an invisible being who takes possession of different people one after the other and forces them to do evil deeds is very similar to the 1963 film Diary of a Murderer and its literary model The Horla by Guy de Maupassant . But the film has no direct connection to it.
Web links
- Demon - maid no soul in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Demon - maid no soul atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Demon - Don't trust a soul. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .