SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Sadly Over-hyped

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

This film is very strong, it has such a solid approach, sure it's a very used plot, but this film makes it very original. It's creepy, original, funny, suspenseful, real, thrilling, The plot is great, the acting is pretty good. Rose McGowan is an amazing actress and brings the Debbie Strand character to life in the most real, strong, and graceful way. Rose basically made this film. It's easy to like Debbie Strand, yeah she's an obsessed psychotic crazy chick, but at the same time, you kind of like her and feel bad for her at times, you can relate to her at times. It's cool how she's like a hot bad girl. It's awesome how it starts out like a small school-girl crush, then slowly turns deadly. The only thing, it'd be nice to see some more action and death scenes. Still a great film, and the score just couldn't get any better, it sounds so artist-like beautiful. It also sounds chilling and creepy at the right times. Let's not forget Rose is HOT! I give it a 10/10, don't pay attention to people who trash the film, give it a chance anyway. I definitely recommend.

Devil in the Flesh is set in Los Angeles & starts as a fire destroys teenager Debbie Strand's (Rose McGowan) house, to make matters worse her mother was inside at the time & she was killed. Social services places Debbie with her strict & religious Grandmother Fiona (Peg Shirley), Debbie is sent to a new school too where she meets hunky creative writing teacher Peter Rinaldi (Alex McArthur) & falls in love with him although Rinaldi does not have the same feelings for Debbie. Being a bit of a psycho Debbie decides to get rid of her mean old Gran & uses her body to try to seduce Rinaldi but when that doesn't work Debbie has to use more devious & ever more sinister methods to get her man...Also quite commonly known under the alternate title Dearly Devoted this Fatal Attraction (1987) style wannabe was directed by Steve Cohen & in my humble opinion is absolutely terrible under any name, to say I really hated Devil in the Flesh is an understatement. The basic plot about a teenage whacked out stalker chick having a crush on a much older guy was already done in the Alicia Silverstone flick The Crush (1993) & Poison Ivy (1992) & all the main clichés are recycled to little effect here. There's the dressing in as little clothing as possible, breaking into his house, trying to break the guy & his girlfriend up & various other schemes which turn increasingly violent. The scripting is a mess, various subplots are started but never really come to fruition like the basketball game Rinaldi & a slack student play, the two cops investigating the fire just end up disappearing, a child abuse angle goes nowhere as well as the rivalry between Debbie & blonde bimbo Meegan. I also hated the character of Debbie who just felt unlikable as she kills a dog for no reason & comes across as a selfish uncaring bitch with no redeeming features. Nothing that is set-up in Devil in the Flesh ever pays off & a really weak climax where basically nothing happens doesn't help either, at over 90 minutes it more than outstays it's welcome & I can honestly say I was bored out of my skull by it & was considering playing some Tetris on my mobile phone but I decided to endure it to the end so never let it be said I never gave it a chance.Apparently Devil in the Flesh premiered on an obscure cable telly channel & that's about it was good for to be honest, there's no excitement or violence or much in the way of tension. Also I actually felt a little uncomfortable watching this at times since it's stated several times that Debbie is a minor yet she hardly wears any clothes, I guess the paedophiles out there might enjoy the really boring sequences of Debbie walking down the street flicking her hair or trying to look sexy while dressed in next to nothing while some terrible music plays on the soundtrack but I didn't.This looks like the drab made for telly flick that it is with a soft natural yet boring look about it. The acting isn't up to much here, even though she was playing a minor here Rose McGowan was actually twenty five when she filmed this. The rest of the cast features no-one of any note as far as I am aware.Devil in the Flesh is a film which I hated, I really did & it was just about everything about it. I will be generous & give it two stars out of ten because some of the girls are pretty hot but otherwise this is a stinker of the highest order as far as I am concerned. Followed by a sequel called Teacher's Pet (2000).

If you've seen more than a handful of thrillers, you will almost certainly have seen this plot line before; it's just the basic stalker theme only set in a school. This idea has been used in many movies previously, and was also the main theme in the excellent 'Wild Things' that was also released in 1998. Devil in the Flesh is a very low key film and actually feels like a TV movie at times; yet despite this, it does at least manage to stay entertaining enough for it's ninety minute duration, which is quite an achievement when you consider how unoriginal it is. The plot focuses on a young girl named Debbie Strand. After her parent's house burns down in mysterious circumstances, she is sent to live in a different town with her religious grandmother. She also has to start a new school and gets that same locker every new girl in American school gets (the sticky one that needs a man to come over and punch it). Anyway, it's not long before she starts to develop a crush on hunky English teacher Mr Rinaldi, and she'll stop at nothing to get what she wants.I have to admit that I have a track record of enjoying low key thrillers like this one, and for what it's worth; Devil in the Flesh is not too bad. It does suffer from a poor script that fails to flesh out it's central characters properly and doesn't contribute a logical narrative, so at times the film just seems to jump from one thing to next without a lot of cohesion. There's also a fair few clichés on display too, which is somewhat annoying and tiresome. On the plus side, the acting is rather good. Rose McGowan was one of my main reason for tuning in and she does the bitchy weird chick thing very well. Starring opposite is Alex McArthur as her crush who also performs well in his role as well as well as Peg Shirley as the overbearing grandmother. The plot moves along at a steady pace for the first half and gets going properly in the second, albeit a bit too fast at times. There's a twist towards the end which is both highly predictable and very unbelievable. Overall, this is a long way from brilliant; but it has a few good elements and there's worse films of this ilk out there.

I hadn't seen this movie in the nearly 10 years since issued, and only caught it by accident. A friend's wife is a fan of Rose McGowan, and had recorded it. I saw it with them while visiting, and was frankly fascinated.The young lead actress whacks more people - family or romantic rivals - than Pesci and his cohorts in "Goodfellas," or the typical button-man in the Corleone family.The loopy, religiously-fanatical grandmother is beyond belief, even knowing that such religious nuts are out there. However, few could ever be this singularly-minded without a trace of humanity whatever. But most fascinating to me, after looking-up the lead actress, with whom I was completely unfamiliar, is her real-life versus this portrayal.Although a high-schooler here, with some admittedly great social problems, in actuality the actress was in her mid-20's, and then in a long-term relationship with, of all people, Marilyn Manson.Of course, actors frequently play characters younger or older, and different from their actual personas. In fact, this is perhaps the essence of "acting." However, in this instance, it stretches credibility beyond the limits (she's actually old enough to have completed high school, obtained a Ph.D. and already spent a couple of years in the workforce). But this simply adds to the fascination of this deliciously trashy presentation. The supporting characters add to the proceedings: the handsome jock pursuing her carries his football with him, and the insignias on his letter jacket would indicate an athletic prowess on the order of Jim Thorpe's - but he comes across like one of the nerds from "Happy Days," but with a more evidenced libido towards the flick's anti-heroine; the two detectives appearing throughout are amiable dunces, a quality not unknown for cops in this genre; and the teacher/hunk is somewhat laconic and a little clueless, also not an unknown quality among "Lifetime" leading men.Nonetheless, Rose deserves high praise and some sort of award for this portrayal. She displayed more diversity and skill with a wide variety of weaponry, and dispatched her targets with more efficiency, and Stallona did as Rambo, in "First Blood." And she made Sly's character seem almost restrained by comparison.