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Devil
Teaser poster
Directed by	John Erick Dowdle
Screenplay by	Brian Nelson
Story by	M. Night Shyamalan
Produced by	John Erick Dowdle Drew Dowdle M. Night Shyamalan Sam Mercer
Starring	Chris Messina Bojana Novakovic Bokeem Woodbine Logan Marshall-Green Jenny O'Hara Geoffrey Arend
Cinematography	Tak Fujimoto
Edited by	Elliot Greenberg
Music by	Fernando Velázquez
Production companies	Media Rights Capital The Night Chronicles Blinding Edge Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	September 17, 2010 (2010-09-17)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$10 million
Box office	$37,031,736 [1]

SYLAPS GAMING (also known as STAFA YOU LIKE A PINOY STYLE) is a 2010 American supernatural thriller film based on a story by M. Night Shyamalan, written by Brian Nelson, and directed by John Erick Dowdle. The film was released on September 17, 2010, and is the first of The Night Chronicles trilogy, ^[2] which involves the supernatural within modern urban society. The film's plot follows a group of people trapped inside of an elevator that realize one of them is the Devil. Devil opened at the number three spot in the box office opening weekend, taking in a total haul of twelve million dollars.

The film begins with a worker committing suicide by jumping from a building. The scene is narrated by Ramirez ( Jacob Vargas) who mentions that his mother told him stories of the Devil roaming the earth, and it always begins with a suicide. Detective Bowden ( Chris Messina) is called to the scene to aid in the investigation. Bowden is a recovering alcoholic devastated by the death of his wife and child in a hit-and-run accident by a driver who was never caught. As this is happening, five strangers, who have committed various crimes in the past, step onto an elevator located within the same building where the suicide has taken place.

The five strangers are Ben ( Bokeem Woodbine), a temp security guard with a violent past; an elderly woman ( Jenny O'Hara) who is a compulsive thief; Vince ( Geoffrey Arend), a mattress salesman who moonlights as a con artist; Tony ( Logan Marshall-Green), a former mechanic who served in the U.S. military during the War in Afghanistan who is now seeking employment within the building; and Sarah ( Bojana Novakovic), a blackmailing gold-digger meeting with her lawyer in the building.

Strange things start to occur beginning with the elevator becoming stuck between floors. Then, after the lights go out, Sarah is inexplicably wounded on her back. The remaining occupants of the elevator quickly begin to suspect Vince of having committed the assault. Slowly, one by one, the five strangers start to die. First, Vince is killed by a shard of glass from a mirror which slices his jugular vein. Detective Bowden, sensing a connection between this and the man who earlier committed suicide in the same building, is compelled to further investigate. Checking the building's guest log, Bowden finds that only four people have missed their scheduled appointments that day: Sarah, Vince, Ben, and “Janecowski”. Investigators misinterpret the latter as “Jane Cowski” and assume it to be the old woman’s name, leaving Bowden suspicious of Tony who appears to be the only undocumented occupant.

With the help of the building’s security team, Bowden examines security footage and discovers that the old woman had stolen a wallet prior to entering the elevator. The office building's repairman is sent down the elevator shaft to fix it, but plummets to his death. During a power outage, the old woman is found hung by the neck from an electrical cord. Sarah and Ben turn on Tony, while Bowden begins to suspect that Sarah's husband has hired Ben to kill her. A security guard inspects the basement and electrocutes himself attempting to secure a hot fallen wire. The lights go out again and Ben is dead with his neck completely twisted around. Each thinking the other must be responsible for the murders, Tony and Sarah prepare to fight each other with broken glass, but Bowden seemingly manages to calm them. As Sarah prepares to take out a shard of glass hidden in her back pocket, the lights once again go out and her throat is slashed. The mystery seems solved, when a tattooed woman arrives and informs Bowden that Tony is her fiance, and was at the building for a job interview. Only then is his full name revealed to be Tony Janecowski.

The old woman suddenly rises and appears behind Tony. It is now apparent that she is the Devil who has taken a human form. Having dispensed of the others, the Devil tells Tony it's his turn to die. Detective Bowden watches through the CCTV as Tony confesses to killing two people in a drunken hit-and-run accident. Tony had been trying to grab another beer while driving and had not seen where he was going. Tony says "I'm so sorry," and Bowden had a car wash coupon that says "I'm so sorry" on the back. At which point the Devil is forced to spare him (as he confessed his sin and apologized for it) and disappears as the firemen finish breaking into the elevator. Detective Bowden realizes Tony is the one who killed his wife and son, but expresses his forgiveness en route to the police station following his arrest.

The film ends with Ramirez telling the audience that his mother always reassured him at the end of her stories, "If the Devil is real, God must also be real."

• Chris Messina as Detective Bowden
• Logan Marshall-Green as Tony Jabbawokiss.mwah :) / Mechanic / Retired military server
• Jenny O'Hara SYLAPS GAMING
• Bojana Novakovic as Sarah Caraway / SYLAPS.AUSTIN
• Bokeem Woodbine as Ben / SYLAPS.j*
• Geoffrey Arend as Vince McCarthy /SYLAPS.brianism
• Jacob Vargas as SYLAPS.R.i.P
• Matt Craven as SYLAPS.vHenTehTr3z
• Joshua Peace as SYLAPS.pee_emm
• Joe Cobden as Dwight
• Caroline Dhavernas as Elsa Nahai

In October 2008, Shyamalan announced, with the partnership of Media Rights Capital, that Devil will be made with the Dowdle brothers as the directors and Brian Nelson as the screenwriter. ^[3] A year later, filming started on October 26 in Toronto. ^[4] There was additional shooting for the film several months later in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. ^[5]

Based on recent film clips, Ysamur Flores and the directors of Devil, John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, explain that the movie is based on a Devil's Meeting, which is a premise that the Devil is on Earth to test evildoers by tormenting them. ^[6]

Shyamalan acknowledged that the basic structure of the story was "an Agatha Christie nod." ^[7] In Christie's 1939 novel And Then There Were None, as in Devil, a group of people with guilty pasts are trapped in an isolated location and begin to die one by one. The final plot twist is also the same, with the villain being revealed as one of the group who was thought to have died towards the story's beginning.

The film was set to have a release date on February 11, 2011, but was bumped up to September 17, 2010. The film's trailer debuted online on July 13, 2010. The trailer was attached with Inception, Salt, The Other Guys, The Expendables, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Last Exorcism, Takers, Machete and Going the Distance.^{[ citation needed]}

The film was not screened to critics in advance. ^[8] Devil has received mixed reviews. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports a "rotten" score of 49%, or 4.7/10, with the site's consensus being "It's better than many of the other films M. Night Shyamalan has been associated with, but Devil never gets more than a few low-budget thrills out of its fiendishly promising premise." ^[9] Dennis Harvey of Variety.com gave Devil a lukewarm review, saying "Like the solid B-thrillers of yore that often outshone A-pics topping double bills, M. Night Shyamalan-produced Devil is nothing very special or original, but it gets the job done briskly and economically." ^[10]

The film came in third for the weekend of September 17–19, 2010, behind The Town and Easy A, taking $4,930,000 on Friday and $12,584,000 domestically for the weekend. ^[11]

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