This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Good movie but grossly overrated

Did you people see the same film I saw?

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The Devil's Rock: British Commandos, an SS Occult Unit in search of the ultimate Supernatural Weapon, Witchcraft, a shape shifting Demon. Yes, the Channel Isles were a fun place to be during WW2.Two commandos land by dinghy on a decoy mission to sabotage gun emplacements thereby misleading the Germans as to the likely D-Day invasion sites. But they hear female screams coming from a bunker investigating they find a Lovecraftian scene, half eaten German soldiers, a soldier who has committed suicide. A Grimoire lies on the ground.A surviving SS officer kills one commando and captures the other. Then we encounter the Demon who handily can take on the features of your loved ones. A summoning has gone wrong. The commando and SS officer are forced to cooperate.Great Demon, ripping heads off.Good War/Horror film, 7/10

How such an interesting premise for a movie could have gotten so poorly executed is the most compelling thing about "The Devil's Rock". Supposedly, Hitler was looking into the occult for ways and means of winning WW2. This is fascinating. TDR is not. It's a snooze fest that reminded me of a bad episode of the long-gone TV series "Night Gallery". Good things first: For a low budget film TDR is well-filmed. It looks good. The atmosphere is suitably gloomy. The premise that two saboteurs have been sent to a remote Nazi outpost in order to distract the Germany army from the Normandy invasion is clearly spelled out. The bunker in which the majority of the movie occurs is also suitably gloomy and owes a lot of its Bauhausian dread to the first appearance of the castle of the Wicked Witch in 1939's "Wizard of Oz". Once inside the bunker, the labyrinth of tunnels is also suitably gloomy. That's the end of the good things.Bad things last: Why did the soldiers not follow orders on such an important mission? On nothing more than a whim, the Captain decides to go into the looming structure in case whoever's screaming inside might be "one of ours". This, after a puking Nazi soldier comes out of the bunker only to have our brave Captain stick a knife in his neck. This terrible decision to enter costs his friend's life. The Captain is overtaken by a mumbling Nazi who gets the best of him. Their initial encounter drags on for nearly half the movie as they take turns getting the jump on one another. Something is screaming it's head off upstairs. The Captain finds out that the Nazi has a demon chained to a wall. Uncle Hitler has used a grimoire to call up what might be a weapon.The demon is a sort of succubus, using sex to lure the Captain into thinking it's his dead wife. This makes no sense since the soldier has already had a long exposition explaining the death of his Mrs. to the marble-mouthed Nazi who's been feeding guts to the creature. Speaking of guts, how did the demon who's chained to a wall tear apart all the other Nazis who are in different parts of the bunker? Was she/it loose at one point? How did she get chained up again instead of blowing the Third Reich popstand? This is successfully ignored by the writer/director. Anyway, an attempt is made to send Tim Curry's daughter back to hell. She/it looks like a female version of Darkness from Ridley Scott's "Legend". Mushmouth Fritz gets dead, the Captain capitulates and lets Little Miss Darkness go and the Allies win D-Day.An hour and a half of three talking heads, some exposed breasts, and many prop corpses, one of which has a machine gun shoved down his throat. TDR produces snores instead of the scares you hoped you'd get. If you want really scary female Nazi thrills, get "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS" (1975). Although some thought was put into this flick, it still requires too many lapses in logic. Pass this Rock by, there's nothing to see here.

THE DEVIL'S ROCK is a little-known but more than effective Kiwi horror flick set during the dark days of WW2. It's one of those films that links the Nazis with the occult, exploring their penchant for black magic with a very dark storyline, although unlike most it doesn't go down the obvious route and just real with Nazi zombies. This time things are a lot odder, and dare I say it, more effective.The film is oddly set on the Channel Islands, as a couple of soldiers infiltrate a Nazi bunker and discover that a massacre has just taken place. What soon unfolds is a plot involving devil worship, black magic, and the summoning of a powerful demon with a taste for human flesh. For a low budget movie, this is decent: for most of the running time we're trapped with three actors in a single location, and yet it never feels stale or boring.I'm not saying that THE DEVIL'S ROCK is a masterpiece, because it isn't. The acting and script are only average. Matthew Sunderland gives the best performance as the conflicted Nazi colonel, and it's a shame when his character turns out to be far more ordinary than you expect from the set-up. Still, there's plenty of flowing gore on offer here, alongside effective demonic scenes that bring to mind the best of the Dennis Wheatley classic, THE DEVIL RIDES OUT. Horror fans should enjoy themselves.

Having a lifelong love, deep interest, and passion in film-making, and finished properties, I've been mislead into many Horror/SciFi dramas of foreign origin, merely to be disappointed. Not so with "THE DEVIL'S ROCK". It's making should have been fiscally prudent, with --I presume-- filming in a virtually narrow, perhaps singular area, and a minimalist's Cast. Of course, I'm pleased that Director "Paul Campion" has foresight, and insight to accompany his artful cinema-graphic storytelling.Without giving away a single thing, "THE DEVIL'S ROCK", though not exclusive in eeriness, drama, suspense, and cunning, it satisfies in a manner that leaves one wanting more by its end. Grab the Popcorn, Chips, Drink, whatever, and turn the lights way down, and the 5, or 7.1 way up. I'm sure John Carpenter loved this one, too... --GBJ