''Devour'' is a 2005 American

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directed by David Winkler.

Plot

The story follows Jake Gray (

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), a young man who's been having bizarre visions of murder and

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, and his experience with a live roleplay-like online game called "The Pathway" (a similar roleplaying as seen in '' The Game''). Following the deaths of his friends Conrad (Teach Grant) and Dakota (

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), who introduced him to the game, Jake soon learns that "The Pathway" is actually being run by a man named Aiden Kater (

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) and his band of Devil-worshippers. They've been using it to look for a specific person, even as they manipulate others into killing. As their final acts, the victims of "The Pathway" commit suicide in various gruesome ways. With help from Marisol (

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), a new friend who dabbles in the mystic

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, Jake learns from a man called Ivan Reisz ( William Sadler) that his wife, Anne Kilton, and their unborn child were taken by Kater and sacrificed to the

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. Soon after, he tracks down Kater and learns that Anne was not in fact sacrificed to the devil, that she gave birth, and that her child was stolen by mortals, and raised as a human. He is that child, the person whom "The Pathway" was created to find, and Anne is really Satan (devil) herself. Ultimately, Jake confronts his birth mother (who has killed his adoptive parents) in the very place where he was stolen from her, he then learns that Marisol was, in fact, Satan/Anne. Following his rejection and attempted murder of her, Jake is shown a vision of the night he was born. He awakens covered with blood on the ground the next day, only to be arrested for the murder of his parents. The movie ends with Jake wondering if everything (including Pathway itself) really was not created by his imagination and if he had committed all those murders.

Cast

as Jake Gray *

as Marisol *

as Dakota * William Sadler as Ivan Reisz *Teach Grant as Conrad Dean *

as Aiden Kater * Rob Stewart as Ross North *R. Nelson Brown as Walt * Wanda Cannon as Kathy Gray *Jenn Griffin as Older Anne Kilton *Alan Ackles as Paul Kilton *Rob Allen as Young Paul *Tami DeSchutter as Young Kathy *John Innes as Father Moore *Reg Tupper as Hartney

Reception

Critical reception for ''Devour'' has been overwhelmingly negative. It holds an approval rating of 20% on ''

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'', based on five reviews with an average score of 3.7/10.

References

External links

* 2005 direct-to-video films 2005 horror films 2005 films Films about self-harm The Devil in film Original Film films Films produced by Neal H. Moritz Sony Pictures direct-to-video films Films directed by David Winkler 2000s English-language films {{2000s-horror-film-stub