This movie have some certain characteristics that kinda make you wonder a bit. "The Devonsville Terror" is a very interesting movie to watch. I saw this movie one time, and I got hooked. After seeing it again, I liked it still. Suzanna Love("The Boogeyman") plays a teacher from out of town who enters Devonsville, a town with a very dark history. 300 years ago, witches were persecuted. One of them put a curse on the town. She was wrongly perceived by the towns folks. The descendants of founding fathers still live in the town which they live their conservative ways. When Jenny Scanlon (Love), and two other women come to reside in town for the winter, the hostility between them begins to sink in. When one of the locals killed his wife, he takes interest in Jenny. The town doctor(Donald Pleasance) is inflicted with an ailment which was brought on by the curse. He is seemingly the only one who is not like the other men. When the others started to attack the other two women, Jenny is the incarnation of the wrongly accused. When they tie her up, the wife of the town leader decided to do away with him. Jenny displayed her fury on the others, and ended up moving on. Some cheese factor was shown. The scenes remind me of "Scanners" , " The Fog" and others to mention. It's not bad. I liked it! 2 out of 5 stars

It's a dark night, there is a full moon poking out from behind the clouds. An on screen caption informs us that it is 'Devonsville, 300 years ago'. A posse of witch-finders condemn a woman named Jessica Maulding (Morrigan Hurt) as a witch, the head executioner (Paul Bentzen) reads from a script urging the woman to denounce the devil & witchcraft. Several pigs are unleashed & start to eat her alive. They move onto yet another woman named Mary Platt (Barbara Cihlar) who they also claim is a witch, they tie her to a large wooden wheel, set it on fire & roll it down a hill. The witch-finders night is still not over as they prepare to execute one final accused woman named Rebecca Parsons (Leslie Smith) who they tie to a stake & set her on fire, as she burns a demonic apparition rises into the lightening filled sky & places a curse on the town & it's inhabitants. We then get an on screen narrated paragraph of text that reads 'Dr. Warley's Journal #73. It has been 300 years since the Devonsville inquisition. Perhaps the long ordeal of the Warley family may be nearing it's conclusion. Only evil will out evil', yet another caption informs us that it is 'Devonsville, the present'. A new strong minded & opinionated school teacher named Jenny Scanlon (co-writer Suzanna Love) arrives in the sleepy New England town of Devonsville. Around the same time two more strangers move to Devonsville, a new DJ at the local radio station named Monica (Deanna Harris) who preaches & fights for womens rights on her show & a new female tenant in a log cabin named Chris (Mary Walden) who is an ecologist studying pollution in the area. Some of the townsfolk lead by local store owner Walter Gibbs (Paul Willson), Aaron Pendleton (Bill Dexter) & his son Ralph (Micheal Accardo) begin to resent the three women & their ideas. As the 300th anniversary of the Devonsville inquisition approaches they believe that maybe Jenny, Chris & Monica are reincarnations of the three witches tortured & murdered all those years ago sent to avenge the crimes & sins of their ancestors!Photographed, co-written, co-produced & directed by Ulli Lommel the Devonsville Terror has virtually nothing to recommend it. The script by Lommel, star Suzanna Love & George T. Lindsey is very slow after the promising opening sequence. Nothing much happens until the very end & as a whole the film feels somewhat padded even at a short duration of just over 80 minutes. The script has an obvious & clear message about persecution & prejudice as the townsfolk of Devonsville convince themselves that Jenny, Chris & Monica are the reincarnations of witches by jumping to conclusions, being very small minded & set in their ways. Unfortunately this reasonable idea for a plot is poorly realised on screen with the entire film becoming a chore to sit through as nothing happens for long stretches, most of the characters are underdeveloped & forgettable. There is also another problem with the story, surely the original inquisition was right as Rebecca placed a curse on the town which means she was a witch! The same contradiction applies to the climax as well. One more thing, when Jenny finds a snake in her bed that wasn't there earlier why does she not question it & who put it there? In fact it's never mentioned again, as are many other little bits that happen here & there that are just dumped & forgotten about like Gibbs murdering his wife Sarah Louise (Joanna Andruss) & receiving a dodgy death certificate from Dr. Warley (Donald Pleasence) which is also totally ignored for the remainder of the film. The special effects are generally terrible, especially when a ghostly apparition is seen & those laser beams coming out of Jenny's eyes at the end look awful. There are a couple of good gore scenes, someones head explodes & another's head gorily melts in quite an impressive effect. The film was shot in autumn & is band, colourless & dreary throughout. The cinematography is flat & unimaginative. The acting is poor, even though he gets near top-billing on the credits Donald Pleasence has nothing more than a cameo as Doctor Warley who never leaves the confines of his comfy wood panelled office! Inbetween bouts of removing maggots burrowing into his skin with tweezers he hypnotises the locals to gain information on the curse & then just disappears from the film completely. Overall I think The Devonsville Terror is a poor film that I personally found incredibly boring & uninteresting. I can't really see anyone getting much entertainment from The Devonsville Terror (I certainly didn't) & therefore I cannot recommend it. Probably best to give this one a miss!

This movie had a nice old feeling to it as the commentator before me said, but that's it. The story is stupid, the acting is mediocre, and the effects are horrible. And the whole arm/worm thing is disgusting might I add. And many of the things just look fake....I love horror movies, and on a scale of 1-10 compared to Children of the Corn (which was made just a year after this;1984)...I'd give it a 1.5 for the lonely feeling, and the .5 for effort.

This typically mediocre horror flick is only worthwhile if you are a die-hard fan of the genre. The acting is good enough, and the story was okay, but as usual, this is a horror film that is not the least bit scary, or even creepy. If there is one very good thing about this movie, it is the look of the picture. I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that horror films that were filmed 15 to 25 years ago tend to have a dark, cold, and often lonely feel to them, and that the quality of today's technology is actually a bad thing when trying to film a scary movie these days. But the great look of this film still doesn't mean that any of you should bother watching it...