Mirium Jones (Shari Shattuck) is in Venice and prays claiming she would do anything to have a baby and looks like she has a slight case of demonic possession. However we don't know that for sure as she is a bit schizophrenic. Her husband Gabriel (Eric Etebari) likes old cars, the bottle, and women who aren't certifiable. We see Mirium going mad and hallucinating, or not, as the audience doesn't know what is real or not real. Tony Todd has a minor role and appears 73 minutes into the film which sets up for a sequel where his role could expand.

I liked the selection of the names. There are women who look like they are part of a Rosemary's Baby coven, including the token hot Asian chick (Jane Park Smith). The DVD cover picture doesn't appear in the film. We get to watch a drama of a failed relationship, that wasn't that great and then we watch a woman do crazy stuff as she walks around at night with a gun and a flashlight because she lives in a nation that allows crazy people to be armed with flashlights. She also likes to wake up in the tub and run around in a top and panties. However that was not enough to carry the film. Had potential.

Guide: F-word, rape. No nudity other than side-breast.

SCREAM AT THE DEVIL is an awful and pointless independent horror production. The cover has been designed to make it look like your standard possession flick, but this is nothing like. Instead it's the humdrum tale of your ordinary housewife who begins to suffer from mental illness and finds herself assailed by weird, demonic visions and other phenomena.

I'm not sure what the market is for a film like this, which so obviously must have been a non-starter for those making it. It lacks a single sympathetic character in the whole cast and for 90% of the running time the viewer is saddled with the below-par acting of Shari Shattuck, an ageing former TV star who fails to hold the attention at all. Oh yeah, and Tony Todd cameos as a cop, but he's no reason to tune into this silly and pointless production.

This movie could have been really good. It had all the elements of a great horror film; a pact with Satan, a main character who may or may not be hallucinating the horrible things in the home, creepy neighbors who seem to be demons at times (like actual demons, not like your regular annoying neighbor-type jerk demons), a Rosemary's Baby-esque Hell-spawn producing scene, etc.

But, somehow all of those ingredients were mixed together and baked, and it turned into something.....not cake.

Even the final scene, which should have tied up the loose ends and drove the whole train home, just caused some eye rolling.

I didn't take away all the stars, because this movie isn't completely beyond redemption. The lady who played Belah was pretty convincing as her role changed from hapless sweet old lady next door to the evil crone who knows more that she lets on.

And, the two cops at the end, while they seem like belonged in different movie, had a pretty good chemistry. The reason they seemed like they didn't belong in this movie is because they didn't. They belong in a *better* movie.