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In January, 1996 Unsolved Mysteries featured a story on landowner Bert Wall's 'real-life' interactions with the spirits that roamed the Devil's Backbone. Nearly twenty years later, Wall passed away...leaving behind only fragmented tales of an inexplicable terror to those that knew him best.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Devil's Backbone, Texas:

Haley Buckner
James Carrington
Alexandria Fierz
David Z. Roberts
Jodi Bianca Wise

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In January, 1996 Unsolved Mysteries featured a story on landowner Bert Wall's 'real-life' interactions with the spirits that roamed the Devil's Backbone. Nearly twenty years later, Wall passed away...leaving behind only fragmented tales of an inexplicable terror to those that knew him best.

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User Review - 6/10 by John CDocumentary style horror. A little uneven at times and somewhat rushed at the end, but overall pretty good. Fans of this style of horror will appreciate it.
User Review - 6/10 by Dillinger PKnowing nothing at all about this film going into it, i genuinely thought that this was a real life documentary, the fact that for well over half the movie I still considered it to be and only in the final 3rd having it crumble beneath me, left me completely and utterly dissapointed and rather sad at the lack luster ending. Since found footage started to get a bit old, a new trend has came out the woodwork, mainly in horror, where we are led to believe that what we are watching is a documentary, The Last Exorcism, The Conspiracy and many others have attempted this and although all these films have mixed reviews, they have been of commendable work, to the extent of believability. For a start the Devil's Backbone, Texas is without a doubt the strongest and the weakest of the entire catalogue here, being in that is pulls out every single punch to make you believe its real, that in its lazy 3rd half not only is the rug swept from under your feet but your treated to a shockingly bad ending, one that does the film no justice what so ever. Why film makers feel the need to create such wonderful experiences and worlds only to shatter them with stupidity near the end, is just baffling. It almost feels as if they feel like if there are no big scares in the final reel then it wont work. It's rubbish, because the entire experience should be one of intrigue and horror, not just the last moments of cheap scares. Backbone starts of extremely well, setting the scene by showing us a man named Jake, whos father Burt, was a horrible man, a lousy husband and after moving into a historical part of Texas, ultimately lost his mind and eventually died under suspicious circumstances. Jake wants to take a cameraman and a group of friends up to his fathers final living spot, The Devils Backbone and scatter his ashes. Only when they get there, the lines of his fathers insanity and the supernatural begin to blur, after the group stumble across bizarre memorabilia and interviews from the locals. Its all wonderful, the acting is naturalistic, the contributors all do a wonderful job of selling the piece. The film also manages to hold your attention, you really feel like your watching something real unfold in front of your eyes. It is essentially brilliant stuff, all the camera angles make sense, it doesnt come across as notable, most of the time, that the cameraman is in fact a crew and it all feels fresh and wonderful. It slowly begins to get more and more preposterous however and although the 2nd twist before the final one almost turns it into a, "If this was true this would be one hell of a documentary" film, then it does as all these films do, fling in the hocus pocus nonsense that ruins it all. I have to say, im not sure if this genre of film is meant to work or not because after finding out youve been tricked, it really shits all over your experience, however i am interested in finding out if a director is capable of making one of these films work. This almost goes there, it has moments of questionability and some far fetched ideas at times but on the whole up until 3/4's of the way through you are completely invested. Completely dissapointing on so many levels, yet commendable on so many other levels. If you like the genre youll love it, for me, its a tried and tested forumla that almost got me and when i caught the trick the film went from a 5 star down to a 3. And in 15 minutes thats a pretty hard thing to do.
User Review - 4/10 by Rorie BIt would have been more effective if the finale had been in line with the rest of the movie.
User Review - 2/10 by bill sA real piece of FF horror crap.....not one bit of tension or any scares in an uninteresting story.
User Review - 2/10 by Ashley DPointless horror tries to look like a documentary in the same vain as blair witch but fails in every aspect far too slow and boring and would of got half a star were it not for a bit more exciting final few minutes maybe the worst found footage movies I have seen far far better examples so save yourselves some time
User Review - 2/10 by Brandon Ga group of metrosexuals go to a haunted area in Texas. the horror is juvenile in quality able to scare only those with no nuts. the cinematography is an insult to the Blair witch style. The acting can be summed up in one word: Horrible.
User Review - 2/10 by Lizzy DI can save you an hour and twenty minutes. A Drama acting like a horror that ends up as a nightmare to watch. After an interesting opening, this movie settles into a tired routine of banality. The movie tries to add flavour to what is a hackneyed plot and terrifically annoying characters. But that's not to say there are not good ideas. The tale is of a man returning to his place of birth to scatter the ashes of his estranged father on his estate. But after the introduction is all goes to pot. The movie is thankfully short, but it could have done with being an hour longer as a horror movie. As a drama, maybe another ten minutes of some crying at the end and a nice shot of the estate then Fin. As a horror you couldcCut out some of the emotional crap, have the ending be the middle and PUT SOME MORE DAMN GHOSTS IN THE GHOST MOVIE! A frustrating number of plot holes and a totally bizarre use of camera work adds to the maelstrom of confusion. At the beginning we're introduced to the camera man as a character (A found footage movie about ghosts! Originality thy name is The Devil's Backbone) but then he sinks into the background, no one speaks to him until the last 20 minutes of the movie. The ghosty bits (I kid you not, there are two of them) are derivative and pointless. The ending is almost good, then it's stupid, really dumb. I wanted to like this movie. I wanted to be entertained, but I was just confused. If the movie has good points, it's in the scenery, the gorgeous Texas backdrop provides stunning Vistas that are shown throughout the movie. I'll give one star for the camera work here. But it's not a nature documentary about Texas, it's a found footage ghost story. This again is the confusion of having a found footage movie acting like a static camera flick. In the end it's a derivative, silly nightmare. I wouldn't even bother giving it a look over. This sort of nonsense can be done without in the horror genre. This movie may have done well as a drama; the emotional bits are good at the start of the film. But the empathy, once built, trails off into two separate tales, a ghosty story and a cathartic journey home. The two do not work well together; perhaps there would have been a way of doing this, but these thoughts are too little, too late. A big No from I'm afraid and by the way I wasn't afraid, at any stage at this nonsensical farce of a horror flick.

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