A lot of fun.

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

As mentioned countless times already, "Devil's Den" really can be considered to be a "From Dusk Till Dawn" knock-off... But that doesn't mean it can't be fun, right? And indeed, I had as much fun with this one as I had with watching "The Hazing" (2004) the week before. Both can be considered good fun horror party flicks. No vampires in this den, actually, but ghouls instead. No big twist halfway through the movie, but ghoul action from the get-go. No elaborate plot whatsoever, but still a few nice character twists. And Ken"Beyond the Dawn of the Texas Sleepstalking Dentist-Reject"Foree is in it. And for the teenage ladies, there's Devon Sawa (but I must say the dude seems to have gained some weight since "Final Destination"). And guys, I don't need to tell you that there's indeed some pleasant femalish eye-candy in this one, right? Yes, this movie will very likely not go very far into horror history, but it's still a certified fun B-movie watch. The same kind of fun I recently had with "Bloodsuckers" (AKA "Vampire Wars"), now that we're talking vampires and ghouls.

While on their way to Mexico to sell "spanish fly" pills as part of a get-rich-quick-scheme, Quinn(Devon Sawa) and his best friend, Nick(Steven Schub) stop off at a strip joint, The Devil's Den, to test out their product. What Quinn doesn't expect is that the joint's top stripper(and her fellow dancers)are demons out for blood and flesh. Quinn will almost become lunch when a well equipped assassin named Caitlan(Kelly Hu), looking for someone at the Den, blasts away, startled at the fact that no matter how many rounds she fires the fugly blood-thirsty, flesh-eating demons still keep coming, seemingly unharmed by the ammunition. Quinn and Caitlan also receive assistance from Leonard(Ken Foree), armed with double barrel shotgun and sword, who knows what the things are..ghouls who sold their soul to Beelzebub. The feeding frenzy where customers are torn asunder by the monstrous ghouls who devour with relish will remind viewers, I imagine, of the Titty Twister slaughter in "From Dusk Til Dawn". Their lair is underneath the Den, a tunnel leading to it(the sets aren't the least bit convincing)and Leonard must kill the leader, their queen, and if he is successful then her reign of terror will be over. Karen Maxwell is Candy, a waitress who accompanies the trio as they temporarily barricade themselves in a dressing room as the feast commences in the club. Who Caitlan is and what her mission was is certainly surprising as it actually pertains to Quinn, but other urgent matters take precedent over this at the moment. More or less a bloody action film, pretty claustrophobic as most of "Devil's Den" is contained within the strip club with our heroes either trying to survive, fending off the hideous demons, or bickering with each other(although, the cast seem to enjoy each other). I imagine some viewers will have to adjust to Sawa's obnoxiousness, his constant whining and screeching, a teen heartthrob no longer. I love me some Hu, though, and she gets to unload rounds at, and kickbox, demons. I have no idea why she would ever find Quinn the least bit ideal a candidate as a future love interest, despite how the movie caters to such nonsense. Foree fans will eat up his role as a bad ass with a Samurai sword, slicing and dicing ghastly demon girls with ferocious appetites. Some flesh-eating, a hand ripping through a victim's chest(pulling free his beating heart and eating it), organ munching, blood splatter, and other grue goodies should satisfy gorehounds seeking human carnage. Nothing particularly memorable, that I can find, but as a Foree fan, I think his casting is enough to recommend horror fans for at least one sitting. Nice to have Jeff Burr back in the director's chair even if the movie rehashes ideas from other films, with a lower budget. I'm not a fan of Sawa in the least, but I thoroughly enjoyed Hu and Foree's casting in the movie. If anything, Burr always seemed to cast rather effectively. And, Burr uses practical effects, something this horror fan certainly appreciates, for the grue, pulling away when he has to due to his obvious budgetary constraints.

The Devil's Den starts late one night as friends Quinn (Devon Sawa) & Nick (Steven Schub) pull up outside a strip bar called the 'Devil's Den' & pop inside to enjoy the entertainment. Unfortunately their night turns sour when the strippers turn out be flesh eating ghouls, Nick is wasted while Quinn barely escapes with his life, on his quest for survival he is joined by Government assassin Caitlin (Kelly Hu) supernatural monster fighter Leonard (Ken Foree) & waitress Candy (Karen Maxwell) who decide to put an end to these ghoul's unsociable flesh eating habits once & for all...Directed by Jeff Burr under the pseudonym of Andrew Quint on the actual film but Andrew Dunt on the DVD/video box Devil's Den is one of those films that if you have zero expectations & a high pain tolerance then you might be able to sit through it in one go but if you are a little more discerning & like a decent story & good gore then Devil's Den isn't going to impress you. The unoriginal, predictable & rip-off ridden script by co-producer Mitch Gould basically steals it's main premise from From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) & the underrated Vamp (1986) with it's strip club populated by vampire like ghouls, Devil's Den goes for comedy as much as horror with some really bad one-liners & dialogue. The character's are rubbish & just plain stupid, you know in zombie films where the only way to kill the walking dead is to shoot them in the head yet character's still spray bullets in their bodies well here it is said the way to kill a ghoul is to chop it's head off yet no-one ever does despite the abundance of samurai swords. I was shouting at the screen 'just cut their heads off!' but they never did. The story is a complete rip-off & it has one of the most obvious & predictable twists I can ever remember seeing. This is pretty poor all round & I don't care that it was low budget, I didn't like it & it's as simple & straight forward as that. I wasn't impressed & anyone with any sort of standards won't be either.Director Burr obviously didn't like the finished result & his name was taken off the credits for which I don't blame him one little bit... There's nothing scary here & I found the gore disappointingly lacking, sure there are a couple of gory moments but overall the opportunity for bloody carnage & mayhem has been largely ignored for instance whenever someone is shot there's never any blood. There's a scene when a ghoul puts her hand through someones chest & pulls his heart out, there are a couple of decapitations, a few severed limbs & some feeding scenes & surprisingly little else. For those interested there's a fair amount of naked breasts on show.With a supposed budget of about $1,500,000 this has reasonable production values & is well made on a low budget level but the effects could have used a bit more work. The acting was pretty bad although Foree is always watchable but what on earth was he wearing at the start? They looked like two tubes stuck up his nose giving him oxygen!Devil's Den in my opinion is a poor low budget horror comedy that's a complete rip-off of much better films, not recommended.

So much of the negative reviews I've seen on this film, come from the fact that it borrows quite liberally from Robert Rodriquez's From Dusk Till Dawn. You have the strip club in the middle of nowhere, the only difference is it substitutes Demonic Succubi chicks, for Vampires. One of my main reasons for recommending this film is Ken Foree of Dawn Of The Dead fame, who gives a fun performance, with plenty of screen time. Also if you like Idle Hands, Devon Sawa is basically playing that again here. At first I wasn't so sure i'd like his character, but he becomes endearing as the film roles on. Rounding out the cast Kelly Hu, also makes for a likable heroine. The Cast has excellent chemistry, and although unlikely, I'd love to see a sequel, which it was left open for. If you like the premise of Devil's Den, you won't be disappointed. Plenty of action, humor, gore, and a little T and A, makes for good times. It isn't anything new, but as far as rip offs go, it's well above average.