Over-the-top and predictable slasher fare.

Routine story, but entertaining nonetheless

Eliot Middle School - 2184 N. Lake Avenue, Altadena, California, USA

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No means no. Don't you guys get that? What is it, you stop understanding English when you get a hard-on?

Rose McGowan and Krissy Carlson in Devil in the Flesh (1998)

Krissy Carlson in Devil in the Flesh (1998)

Rose McGowan

Alex McArthur

Peg Shirley

Michael Michaud

Kelly Carlin

Robert McCall

She&apos;s young, sexy and dangerous. Debbie is the new girl in class with a skill for turning heads. From the moment she arrives in town following her parents&apos; untimely death, Debbie sets her sights on her teacher, the high school hea...

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Devil in the Flesh

Derivative, but not a complete dead loss

If you&apos;ve seen more than a handful of thrillers, you will almost certainly have seen this plot line before; it&apos;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 &apos;Wild Things&apos; 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&apos;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&apos;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&apos;s not long before she starts to develop a crush on hunky English teacher Mr Rinaldi, and she&apos;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&apos;s worth; Devil in the Flesh is not too bad. It does suffer from a poor script that fails to flesh out it&apos;s central characters properly and doesn&apos;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&apos;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&apos;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&apos;s worse films of this ilk out there.

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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.

She's young, sexy and dangerous. Debbie is the new girl in class with a skill for turning heads. From the moment she arrives in town following her parents' untimely death, Debbie sets her sights on her teacher, the high school heartthrob.

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