Prey for the Devil - Movie Reviews (2024)

While Stamm’s latest effort isn’t the worst the genre has on offer, it is one of the most frustrating— filled with promise that is quickly exorcized.

Full Review | Nov 2, 2023

Prey for the Devil tries to be religious, feminist, terrifying and led by a nuanced protagonist, but it fails on almost all fronts. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 3, 2023

Offering a little twist on the typical exorcist movie, Prey for the Devil combines jump scares with hypotheses on possession and exorcism...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 3, 2023

The viewer who came for more will be disappointed. Those who wanted impossible twists and sudden frights seen a thousand times get a fair amount. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 28, 2022

Ultimately, Prey for the Devil is a very hammy movie that almost feels like it was made in the 80s, back when audiences got these ridiculous horror films.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 30, 2022

So derivate of (the Exorcist), and even the films it inspired… when there are so many better films like this flooding streaming services, it begs the question – why do we need another?

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2022

Dull, scare-free and absurd.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Nov 11, 2022

Not enough chills or thrills to make this anything but average entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 10, 2022

Prey For The Devil is as generic and cliche' as an exorcism/possession movie can be. The visuals, story, and scares are all retreads of things we have seen many times before and done much better in the past.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2022

Prey for the Devil could have been something, but is nothing more than average. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Nov 2, 2022

Prey for the Devil struggles to exercise the cliched demons haunting its runtime.

Full Review | Nov 2, 2022

It feels like a movie that was built to come out in the dead zone of winter.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 2, 2022

[The film] is a tired-ass therapy session posing as a horror flick, one that would be far easier to endure if it wasn’t so self-serious, which makes sense given the thematics at hand, but robs the proceedings of anything even remotely resembling fun.

Full Review | Oct 31, 2022

If terror is often measured by the scares it causes, I suppose that in this line the balance is not so negative. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 50/50 | Oct 31, 2022

Interesting bits aside, “Prey for the Devil” still can’t quite get over the hurdle of familiarity. There’s just too much that feels rehashed from countless other films.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 31, 2022

Like many exorcist movies, this one is beautiful to look at (old churches, libraries, stained glass windows), but it has the energy of a sloth, as if it drifted off while gazing at things.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2022

Director Daniel Stamm brings a fresh take on exorcism movies for the first two-thirds of the movie until the final sequence when it treads familiar territory.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 29, 2022

While it does attempt to modernize the subgenre with its setting and female lead, it lacks what makes exorcism films so affecting and makes some questionable choices that keep Catholicism’s archaic rule alive.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2022

Far from the worst exorcism story ever, it nevertheless squanders a potentially riveting premise in favor of the same old, same old.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 28, 2022

This is just another regurgitation of yesterday's devout scare tactics, spewing diet Exorcist clichés as freely as Linda Blair once painted the walls in pea soup.

Full Review | Oct 28, 2022