Sadly Over-hyped

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

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.

I can find nothing good about this movie aside from the fact that I did not turn it off. But I tend not to turn movies off simply on principal.The directing was straight from 8th grade video production class with Mr. Pumpitus, the dialogue was insulting at best, there were no likable characters (so much so that it was disappointing that none of them died), and the plot has been recycled so much that it is now full of holes. I suppose the one star is for something that I have never seen before: a woman giving a dog a hand job.Do not dignify this movie by paying to watch it.

The French have pretty much proved themselves to be the kings of modern horror cinema over the course of this decade. Films such as Malefique, In My Skin and Inside show what the French can do; and as a result of these films, I generally go into any modern French horror expecting great things. Sheitan is yet another excellent French horror film that works thanks to its untypical approach, mysterious atmosphere and great lead performance by Vincent Cassel. The plot focuses on a group of friends that exit a disco late one night after a fight that resulted in one of them taking a bottle in the face. They hook up with a girl called Eve; who suggests that they escape to her house in the country. They get to the farmhouse and are greeted by a bunch of goats and the strange housekeeper, who takes a strange sort of liking to one of the boys. The group enjoys themselves at the house and spend most of their time trying to get the girls into bed; but soon it becomes apparent that something is wrong with the housekeeper...The way that the plot moves really is the best thing about this film. It's all held together very loosely and the plot itself has free reign basically to go wherever it wants; and this results in a film that constantly feels fresh and inventive as you never really know where it is going to go next. The film relies on its characters to move the story forward and they are a colourful bunch; the housekeeper and the boy he 'befriends' in particular share an interesting relationship. The way that the film plays out is very strange for a Satanic horror film as despite some symbolism and discussions of religion during the film; there's not a great deal in the way of hints that the film even is Satanic horror. Vincent Cassel's character is the real standout of the film in terms of the performances; and he truly succeeds in creating an extremely intriguing horror villain that is interesting and detestable in equal measures. The film does begin to crumble somewhat towards the end and I was really worried that we were going to get a Switchblade Romance-style cop out ending, but luckily it gets corrected in time and the conclusion is a shocker. Overall, Sheitan is an excellent movie and one that will surely improve with subsequent viewings. Recommended!

For once all the usually exaggerated glowing reviews printed on the DVD jacket are right. This movie and the performance by Vincent Cassel are fantastic, demented, outrageous.A group of multicultural ghetto kids (a black guy, an Asian guy, a French goof with his dog, an Arab chick and a French girl) end up taking a trip to the countryside after the goof gets bottle smashed on his head in a club over the girl. As they arrive at the girl's home on the country, they run into the goatherd who lives there and guards the ranch: Joseph (played or rather embodied by Cassel), who is a little odd and not just physically. He seems to get rather "friendly" with goof.The father of the girl was a dollmaker (of course) so you have the obligatory room filled with dolls, doll parts, dismembered dolls, weird looking dolls, and some strange doll-making instruments one of which is this large corkscrew-shaped knife, which you just know will make an appearance later in the movie.In the village nearby they meet some of the villagers that look all like they have some genetic defect: a typhoid-looking kid who seems rather close to girl, and bunch of creeps on motorcycles, and the hot village slut, whom Joseph tries to hook up with goof.Later our gang goes bathing in a grotto. Not long after Joseph shows up and again gets uncomfortably close to goof, the rest of the village people show up as well and harass our friends. Slut goes after goof, who's not in the mood. So instead, slut gets rather touchy with his dog!- in defiance, in my opinion, of the censors.Back in the home, the guys, who all think of themselves as super machos and irresistible, while being rather ugly fellows, try to hook up with the girls. Problem: there's 2 girls for the 3 guys. Black guy, who has his girlfriend calling him on the phone all the time, tries to go for Arab chick- both are Muslims. While Asian guy and goof try to sort out who gets girl. Solution: they both get her and there's some threesome action.While all this is taking place, something is going in Joseph's room. His overweight wife is about to give birth at 12 midnight. This of course is not just an ordinary birth. Joseph wants to prepare a special doll for his future kid.Eventually, people start dying as Joseph goes completely nuts. But wait, could this all have been a dream/hallucination of goof who got beat in the head? This movie is the funniest horror movie I've seen in a long time. It's truly hilarious, it's politically incorrect, it's outrageous- not with lame punchlines, but with realistic characters and dialogue. The kids are horny dumbasses who tease each other and talk the big talk while being nobodies, they listen to some outrageous french/Muslim rap. But they are also truly funny in their naiveté and innocence despite pretending to be tough-guy casanovas.The dialogue is very natural for the age and social group, I imagine and I can only go by the subtitles which are good but sometimes missing. There are times when someone is saying an awful lot of stuff that doesn't make it to the subtitles. Some scenes can be pretty disgusting, there's a lot of animal business involved: a dog fight, goats being kicked and hit by car, vultures eating some rodent, and slut manually abusing the dog. I could have done without all that. But it's tolerable and the rest of the movie and Josheph's outrageous hilarious behavior make up for any shortcomings or scenes that may go to far.This movie is very original and unique. No American filmmakers would come up with something remotely as wild as this movie. The cinematography and camera work are pretty good, too. One of the finer entries in the French horror genre and this one is not your dry and predictable 'woman takes revenge on killer' type french gore movie. The story here is so different and surprising, it's a must see for fans of creepy movies.