Mark of the Devil

Ok, I wasn't expecting a masterpiece with a 3.8 rating on IMDB but this , this surpassed my imagination by a mile , should have set the bar lower than ground zero.

The top billed actor doesn't show up until a good 30 minutes into the film, has so little screen time it could be easily termed an extended camio.

After seeing many horror films and reading materials of this genre I could make a guess as to what was the explanation for all that but seriously wasn't that the film's responsibility to do the explanation? Not like spoon feeding the audience but like making sense of everything.

It really hurts to see Eduardo Noriega in something so poorly made. He is better than this, he deserves better than this.

Film was made like 3 years ago, released only this year in thetres in Mexico and now on Netflix - making it evident nothing good was to come out of it.

But it goes beyond that, it hurts to see a film this bad.

I cannot believe I wasted my time with it. This is one of the worst things I've ever looked at. Please note that I am including everything else I have laid my eyes on since I was born. This is so trash. If I were the people who worked on this movie, I would be ashamed to leave my house. I would change my name and move to another country.

I want to start a campaign for Netflix to remove it from its catalog, because this is an insult to all of the other movies there (good and bad). It is so terrible I wanna cry. Seriously, PLEASE DO NOT WATCH IT. Do anything else. Walk your dog, exercise, do chores. But please do not waste your time, like I did (sad song).

This movie... Totally disaster. Effects poor, actors tragic, plot jumps everywhere, no sense, random episodes. Like what did I just watch? Don't watch it... Please, save your time....

I stumbled upon this 2020 Mexican horror movie titled "La Marca del Demonio" (aka "Mark of the Devil") whilst perusing the horror titles on Netflix. And with this being a horror movie that I hadn't already seen, much less even heard about, of course I opted to give the movie a chance.

Writers Jose Ruben Escalante Mendez and Ruben Escalante Mendez put together a rather bland and mundane script for the movie. And the mixture of the Necronomicon, Ancient Ones from the Lovecraft Mythos and ordinary Catholic religion made for a very odd combination, and it just didn't work all that well.

Sure, taking the elements of the Lovecraft Mythos and putting into a movie is usually something I appreciate, but in "La Marca del Demonio" it just didn't work. Because director Diego Cohen utterly failed to capture the essence of the Lovecraft Mythos, nor were there any sense of cosmic dread about in this movie, which is what the Mythos is all about. And while they had the names of Cthylla and Ythogtha correct, these are hardly entities that possess humans. At least get your Mythos lore right if making a movie.

The acting performances in "La Marca del Demonio" were fair enough. I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, but they seemed talented enough. Just a shame that the material they had to work with in terms of script and storyline was such rubbish.

Visually, then "La Marca del Demonio" was okay. There were a few special effects throughout the course of 82 minutes that the movie ran for. You're not in for an overwhelming spectacle of over-the-top special effects, however. But it should be said that the special effects were fair enough.

If you enjoy horror movies, then "La Marca del Demonio" is not a movie I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on.

My rating of "La Marca del Demonio" lands on a three out of ten stars.

Truly awful film had to switch it off 44 mins in. The fact it was dubbed added to the abysmal acting.