Line #31 Film/Devour


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3	''Devour'' is a 2005 Horror Movie directed by David Winkler and starring Creator/JensenAckles, Creator/ShannynSossamon, Creator/DominiqueSwain, Creator/WilliamSadler and Teach Grant.
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5	Jake Gray, a 21-year-old student, witnesses the brutal death of his closest friends who played an internet game called "The Pathfinder". With the help of Marisol, he investigates the company behind the game.
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8	!!''Devour'' contains examples of:
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10	* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Satan is definitely not the mother of the year. She kills her son's friends, family and forces him to drink the blood of his adoptive parents]].
11	* AntiAntiChrist: [[spoiler: Jake is eventually revealed to be Satan's son but refuses to join her.]]
12	* AssholeVictim: Dakota is compelled into killing a married professor who repeatedly sexually harassed her.
13	* BigBad: Satan who's behind the game that kill its players.
14	* TheDragon: The head of the Pathfinder Aiden Kater works for Satan.
15	* BigNo: Jake upon seeing [[spoiler:his adoptive parents hanged together.]]
16	* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Almost all the first half of the movies establishes Jake's relationships with his friends, family and his boss.
17	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Jake loses everyone he loves and is taken by the police]].
18	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite being the leader of a Satanis cult, Ivan Reisz refused to make a human sacrifice when his pregnant wife asked for one for the health of the baby.
19	* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Anne Kilton faked her death with the complicity of Kater. She does it again at the end to frame Jake.]]
20	* FauxAffablyEvil: Satan apologies Jake for [[spoiler: killing his loved ones]] and insists he has the choice to join her or to return to his old life. [[spoiler:The second, Jake refuses, Satan grabs the chalice and forcefeeds Jake with the blood of his adoptive parents.]]
21	* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Satan punishes Jake for his refusal to join her by framing him for the murders of his parents]].
22	* FriendsWithBenefits : Jake and Dakota have sex but are not dating.
23	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler:The ending casts doubt whether Satan exists or if Jake just immagined the whole story]]
24	* MeanBoss: Jake's boss who fires him because his nephew needs a job then advises Jake to sell pot. Also he refuses to pay two weeks of salary.
25	* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Those who plays the game kill themselves by mutilation.
26	* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Ivan taught Adan Kater the dark arts. Kater eventually sacrificed Ivan's wife to Satan.
27	* SlutShaming: Dakota gets an anonymous call that insults her based on her promiscuity.
28	* SoftWater: Inverted. Jake throws Kater in the pool from not very high up but, for some reason, his head hits the bottom hard enough to die.
29	* SpeedSex: Played straight when Dakota gets on Jake's lap for a few seconds.
30	* TitleDrop: Not uttered but the word "Devour" appears when Jake sees the scripture 1 Peter 5:8 in the church: "Your enemy, Satan, prowls around like a lion, seeking souls he may he may ''devour''."
31	* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness : [[spoiler: In the end, Jake wonders if he really did commit the murders and if everything he saw was the product of his imagination.]]
32	* TongueTrauma: Jake has a vision of himself cutting off his tongue. [[spoiler: Later, Conrad and Dakota cut off their tongue before they die]].
33	* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler: Satan takes the form of Marisol to seduce her son. After revealing herself to him, she makes clear that she wants to pursue the relationship before kissing him.]]
34	* YouMonster : Jake is called a monster [[spoiler: by the police who thinks he killed his parents and drink their blood]].

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