Description
Title: Devil in the Flesh (1998)
Alternate Title: Dearly Devoted
Genre: Thriller / Erotic Thriller
Plot Synopsis
After a mysterious house fire kills her mother and her mother’s boyfriend, teenager Debbie Strand is sent to live with her strict Christian grandmother in the suburbs of Los Angeles. At her new school she quickly becomes the object of fascination, especially of her handsome creative-writing teacher, Peter Rinaldi. What begins as an infatuation spins into obsession as Debbie begins eliminating anyone in her path — including family, peers, and Peter’s fiancée — in her quest to secure what she sees as true love.
Cast and Crew
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Director: Steve Cohen
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Writers: Kelly Carlin-McCall, Steve Cohen, Robert McCall, Michael Michaud (story by Kurt Anderson & Richard Brandes)
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Cast:
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Rose McGowan as Debbie Strand
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Alex McArthur as Peter Rinaldi
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Peg Shirley as Fiona Long (grandmother)
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Sherrie Rose as Marilyn (Peter’s fiancée)
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Phil Morris as Detective Joe Rosales
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YouTube Trailer: Devil in the Flesh | Trailer
IMDb Link: Devil in the Flesh (1998)
Reviews from Letterboxd
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No-Personality – ★★½☆☆
“I’d love to lie and say it’s aged well, because it’s still skele-tons of fun. Rose McGowan is just a delight in this (especially during her “‘No’ means No” speech), the side characters are functionally quirky, and there’s a refreshingly breezy atmosphere to the scenes and tone to the would-be-dreary-otherwise teenage Fatal Attraction story. But, things just get needlessly clogged the more the movie presses the ‘But, I love you’ button. The movie could have tried to stiffen things up, treated McGowan as more sophisticated and more serious. But that restaurant scene puts the final pin in that ambition. From then on, things just get sloppy. People die, you feel nothing. Not even amusement. Which is a shame, because there was lots of fun to be had before then.” -
MaryWalton – ★★☆☆☆
“Corny violence, an unattractive WASPy male lead, and his boring-ass pure blonde girlfriend. This was good. Good to turn the brain off and have a spa night. Good for fashion inspo. Wish I was born in the 90s when everyone had a dusty-ass attic apparently.” -
QueenieMeenie – ★★★★☆
“yes good more” -
AutumnFallss – ★★★☆☆
“First off Peter isn’t even that hot to begin with. Also also her grandmother was horrible to her she deserved that. The jock guy Greg who r@ped her deserved to die also. Rose was a baddie in this movie actually she’s so beautiful. Also Peter weird asf for asking minors to his house to help with the garage sale like why do you need a teenagers help like he really ain’t shit either actually. It was a corny movie but entertaining at best.” -
Sasha – ★★★☆☆
“This movie made me feel schizophrenic. The editing was bizarre. Like every cut confounded me. The pacing is atrocious, characters are underwritten, death scenes are mostly meh and character motivations don’t add up. All that said, Rose Mcg… makes this movie worth watching. She is and always will be a queen. Its just a shame she wasn’t given better direction and lines.”
Meta Description:
A troubled teen moves in with her religious grandmother and fixates obsessively on her handsome teacher, unleashing a trail of violence in this late-90s erotic thriller starring Rose McGowan.
Title: Devil in the Flesh 2 (2000)
Alternate Title: Teacher’s Pet
Genre: Thriller
Plot Synopsis
After escaping from a mental institution, Debbie Strand assumes the identity of a college freshman whose car she steals following a tragic accident. She enrolls at the school her victim was headed to, intent on seducing a handsome writing instructor Sam Deckner. As Debbie embeds herself into campus life, she ruthlessly eliminates anyone she sees as an obstacle to her fixation, from roommates to faculty, all in service of her twisted goal of making Sam hers.
Cast and Crew
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Director: Marcus Spiegel
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Writers: Richard Brandes
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Cast:
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Jodi Lyn O’Keefe as Debbie Strand
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Jsu Garcia as Sam Deckner
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Katherine Kendall as Carla Briggs
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Jeanette Brox as Laney
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Christiana Frank as Sydney Hollings
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YouTube Trailer: Devil in the Flesh 2 | Trailer
IMDb Link: Devil in the Flesh 2 (2000)
Reviews from Letterboxd
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Andrew Moncrieff – ★★★☆☆
“This is more terrible, soap opera-like, and badly acted than the original. Wendy Robie and Julia Nickson were at least recognisable faces and needless to say McGowan didn’t come back. But these qualities probably made it more entertaining as a bad movie.” -
SubToretto – ★★★☆☆
“Its more than a pale imitation of the wild McGowan-lead first film, a rehash/follow-up that is giving a grand old go of it but not pushing things into anything that new or even meeting its counterpart head-on… Despite all that, this is a trashy blast from the outset; and O’Keefe and heavy use of split-diopter shots give it a tasty edge, creating a ride that is devilishly fun, often funny and always with a cracking pace.” -
dorkichar – ★★★★☆
“Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, Queen Bitch from Whatever it Takes and She’s All That, morphs into McGowan’s character, Debbie, from the first film. It starts with her escaping from a mental hospital… I loved this overall more than the original.” -
á ngel – ★★★½
“> “Where the hell is my Prince Charming!” I love DTV films — what can I say? Sometimes you’ll find a hidden gem and other times you’ll waste an hour and a half of your time. A pretty flimsy “sequel” to Devil in the Flesh, you could even switch out the character of Debbie and it can be disregarded as a sequel entirely… She’s just so effortlessly cool (that leather jacket!) and her moments of rage are just so fun.”
Meta Description:
A psychotic college-threat thriller where a disturbed young woman escapes her institution, steals a student’s identity and embarks on a murderous obsession with her teacher in a twisted campus seduction game.
