Indy Filmmakers Will Relate to the Faustian Bargain in ‘The Devil’s Tongue’ (Movie Review)

The Devil’s Tongue

Rating: 8/10

Written & Directed: Julian Gowdy

Style: Thriller

Time: 78 minutes

That’s actor Graham Rickerman under the mask but you wouldn’t know it

Review by Mike Szymanski

At what price will it take to get your movie made?

Anyone who has ever made, or met someone involved in making, an independent movie will know and can relate to the problems of this director that he is facing in this movie.

While making his movie, the director has actors who feel overworked and simply leave the set so that they can go to a job where they get paid. Even the editor hasn’t watched their dailies from the latest shoot because he had to complete a paying gig.

It’s a familiar, frustrating dilemma that makes me wonder sometimes how anyone actually gets a movie made these days.

This is a cautionary tale — a dark comedy — of what it’s like to put art (in this case filmmaking) over everything else in life and the disturbing consequences that can happen because of that.