The Devil's Tail

There's nothing as disconcerting as going on IMDB for a little illumination on what you just watched to find "I only watched for six minutes. Don't waste your time," or "It only played to the end cause I was reading." In other words, you felt compelled to review a film you haven't seen. Some people must really like to see their names in print. That said, it took me a bit to realize that this was an anthology. I think that was because they aren't so much complete stories as they are vignettes. The closest to a complete tale is the one about the metal-head chicks attending a rock festival and staying in a rental house. And maybe the one about the girl getting her first period. Anyway, the stories piqued my interest at some points, lost my attention at others, but overall provided me with some unsettling moments and some gruesome imagery, which is all I require for a direct-to-video horror flick. I look forward to these filmmakers' future works, hopefully staying within the horror genre, as it's fertile ground for innovation. Some of these vignettes could be exapanded into full-length features, such as the one about the old man collapsing at the train station.

The 1st scene was great,I thought this was setting the tone for the entire Movie. BEWARE<NOOO,,It was different vignettes,After the first 6 minutes this became UNWATCHABLE!! Totally ridiculous,what was that thingy on the floor! Listen friends, I have been trained for 50 years to critique Movies,STAY away from this ABOMINATION!! I was actually embarassed for who ever filmed this JUNK!! OH I watched 15 minutes of this for free on a channel we all love. I was actually shocked to find it. But even FREE I turned it off. The older gent in the 1st 6 minutes was awesome after that bathroom scene, TURN IT OFF!!

An hour thirty minutes of my life I can't get back. This movie is billed as a single story but after spending 45 minutes confused, I realized there won't be any cohesion in this anthology. If I didn't spend $5.99 to watch this travesty, I would have shut it off. A truly horribly done wreck.

If I had known this would have been an "anthology," I definitely would have skipped. The only decent stories make up so little of the run time, most of them have no point. They don't really delve into what's happening or give any reason as to why. The stories have no correlation and majority of the characters are uninteresting or just plain unlikeable. There were SO MANY painfully long unnecessary shots of characters just breathing or walking it was infuriating. For every sentence spoken they had to flip the camera and show every single character reacting. This should not have made it to the public, it should have stayed as a film student's series of shorts. It's so ironic that the filmmakers and editors sat through the hitchhiker telling the taxidermist how ridiculous it was to wait on a broken traffic light when they chose to put together this disjointed bloated rotting corpse of a movie.

Ugh, this 2021 horror anthology "The Devil's Tail" was brutal. And not in a good way brutal. Nay, this movie was just a swing and a miss from writers Mauro Croche and Taz Pereyra.

First of all, I didn't know that it was an anthology when I sat down to watch "The Devil's Tail", so the storyline made zero sense as things seemed very random and just change from one scenery and story to another in the blink of an eye. Normally, I am not overly keen on horror anthologies as they tend to be dubious at best.

But I continued on watching "The Devil's Tail", even after figuring out that it was indeed an anthology. But the stories just didn't have all that much appeal or punch, so it was a very bland and prolonged experience to sit through this movie from directors Nicole Goode, Carlota Pereda and Taz Pereyra.

Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble that participated in the making of "The Devil's Tail". But since they virtually had nothing solid or interesting to work with from the script and storyline, then the performances just never found a footing, and it was a drag to sit through.

For a horror anthology then "The Devil's Tail" was bad, not just dubious, but downright bad. And this is not an anthology I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. The best part about "The Devil's Tail" was actually the movie's cover.

My rating of "The Devil's Tail" lands on a two out of ten stars.