Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Powerful

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

A group of young party adults at a disco decide to have a weekend after party at Eve's (Roxane Mesquida) country home. Bart (Olivier Barthelemy) is the obnoxious one in the group and doesn't fit in. At the home we meet Josef (Vincent Cassel) a half-wit caretaker who always has an idiot's smile on his face. He likes Bart. They have an interesting dinner and then...At dinner we discover Sheitan means devil. There is a low level religious discussion and Josef explains what could be the plot, leaving out the creepy dolls. He keeps us engaged in the film, not knowing if he is the antagonist or protagonist considering the group. The group is supposed to be out partying on Christmas Eve, and then the next night at the manor is also Christmas Eve. I just went with it.The film is in French with English or Spanish subtitles.Guide: F-word. Groping. Nudity (male/female)

The movie is alright, it is entertaining mostly but not in an overdone clichéd way. The characters are clearly defined unlike many horror movies where they just throw a bunch of archetypes in a mix and people start dying. It is not a thriller but it ends up like one, in the Dumbest way possible. They could of created something new and with no precedents, instead they decided to go for the obvious just so we could see Vincent Cassel more time on screen.There is not much wrong with the movie technically, it was an interesting attempt, but the ending made seem ¨House of the Devil¨ like a good movie, some of the characters make good decisions, but then they just throw it all away and kill the cutest one, not enough gore, not enough comedy, not enough suspense, not enough anything, good character development in a bad story which does makes sense but tries too hard and uses a very cheap resort for the ending to fit in.

Sheitan is a French horror film that really doesn't go anywhere or provide many scary moments. Vincent Cassel is unrecognizable as the lead villain Joseph; he's sufficiently menacing but the weak script is well below his acting talents. Cassel was the dance director in last years much hyped and overrated Black Swan. Here he scowls and physically abuses most of the cast throughout this scare fest.On the positive side, Roxane Mesquida provides eye candy(as she did in the horror- parody Rubber recently). As the temptress Eve she has brought a few bar patrons to her family's rural farm for a supposed romantic getaway. Of course things don't turn out as planned for the prospective soul mates. Ms. Mesquida does have an all to brief nude scene with 2 guys. The movie only runs an hour and a half, so if you're a horror fan, this is very middle of the road with some better and some worse in this genre. The two aforementioned leads make the ride marginally passable.

Man, this was fun. It is very predictable, but still hilarious. I would hardly call this horror, since it never really tries to be scary. For the most part, it tries to be weird and funny.With a couple of other recent French flicks in mind I'm beginning to think that French people living in cities have even worse an image of their country folk than American metropolitans have of theirs.The predictability is stupid though. Same as with "Haute Tension" the film basically tells you how it's gonna end. HT tells you right in the beginning, Sheitan tells you half-way through. French movie makers seem to wanna create the Anti-Twist-Ending.This really is the French Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Only less massacre.