The Diabolical
Madison, a single mother, and her children, are awoken nightly by an increasingly strange and intense presence. When she and her two young children are tormented by an increasingly strange and intense presence in their quiet suburban home, she turns to her scientist boyfriend to take on the violent forces that paranormal experts are too frightened to face.
16 July 1973, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 December 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 January 1962
26 September 1962, Greenville, Pennsylvania, USA
6 August 1957, Jacksonville, North Carolina, USA
28 February 1976, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA
8 May 1975, Santurce, Puerto Rico
October 16, 2015
None of the elements-the scary stuff, the psychological drama, the family-dynamic crises-really deliver the wallop necessary to provide truly memorable horror fare.
October 14, 2015
Half-decent effects, some seriously misguided mothering (by Ali Larter) and a third act twist don't add up to enough to bother with this one.
August 20, 2015
a rich and intriguing variation on a timeworn theme, as the tropes of the haunted house flick are ingeniously reverse-engineered and rebuilt into something else.
October 16, 2015
"The Diabolical" is a tepid horror-thriller that never manages to sell, much less clarify, its potentially ambitious concept.
October 15, 2015
Although the plot becomes needlessly busy, Legrand fails to generate palpable terror and the ending feels rather rushed.
October 15, 2015
A sharp little genre mix-it-up that delivers one hell of thoroughly set-up sucker punch without ever undermining its spiffy sci-fi/spook-show hijinks.
October 15, 2015
Nothing out of the ordinary, but it'll keep anyone planning a Halloween all-nighter awake and interested.
