The Devil's Music

I struggled to sit through this film because of the amount of second-hand embarrassment I felt for the people who agreed to be in this.

Watching a group of middle-aged people with zero personal charisma or acting ability pretend to be young shock rock musicians is absolutely painful. The film also seems to have no idea what shock rock is since the craziest onstage antics we see are cringy hip-thrusting motions.

Not one of the actors is remotely convincing as a member of the music industry. The sound quality is awful, the plot is threadbare, and the film overall is a boring waste of time.

Shot documentary style following the aftermath of some mysterious events between the lead singer of a goth rock band and a pop star. The Devils music is a series of on camera interviews with people involved with the band and the music biz mixed in with footage filmed by people in the group showing some of the weirdness.

The plot is actually an OK idea, the lead singer of a rock band befriends one of her groupies who used to be a fan of a pop-star who they believe has some dark secrets. on the positive side the members of the band and the tour manager are all very good and you believe in the interviews that they are real people. There are two or three actually pretty creepy moments in the movie that work well sadly thats it for positives.

The two leads, the rock-star and the pop-star are terrible. Its real weak below TV standards acting and where the focus is on these two a lot of the time it really drags the movie down. But the most fundamental flaw with this movie is the music. Given that we are to believe that these are both successful acts in the music industry the songs are dreadful. The pop-star is supposed to have a major following but the songs are barely even radio jingle worthy. The same can be said of the rock songs and when the band are playing on stage there's people there holding instruments that aren't even on the track. You'd think if you were going to make a movie based around music you'd at least get some quality songwriting secured to make the whole thing believable.

It's a real shame that an original idea was wasted on what turns out as a pretty useless film.