Devils in Disguise (2015) Review
Devils in Disguise (2015) Review
Directed by Guillaume Campanacci, who also plays the abusive Alain, DEVILS IN DISGUISE is his feature film directorial debut and it is currently available to watch on Prime Video. His second feature, WHENEVER I’M ALONE WITH YOU, had its World Premiere at the prestigious Oldenburg International Film Festival in 2023 and won 25 Awards worldwide (it is also now on Prime Video).
Campanacci was one of the directors of the music video Anthology ONE WAY TICKET TO THE OTHER SIDE for the band “Pornographie Exclusive” and executive produced by Deborah Kara Unger (Crash, The GAME) that premiered at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in 2024 and Raindance this June. His third feature film, THE SILENT SINNER, is in post-production and will premiere in September 2025 at a prestigious festival to be announced.
Two roommates, Leila ((Magen Mattox) and Sandy (Montanna Gillis), team up to kill Leila’s sadistic boyfriend Alain (Guillaume Campanacci). This film has been described as a remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot LES DIABOLIQUES.
For those of you that are unfamiliar with the 1955 film – it was later remade in 1996 and starring Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani – the story sees two women kill off a vile excuse for a man only to discover that his body has gone missing and subsequently panic as the cadaver’s whereabouts. Clouzot’s film is astonishing good, the 1996 remake not so good and Campanacci’s 2014 take on the classic is somewhere in-between.
Campanacci’s approach to telling an otherwise straightforward story is by doing so in a non-linear fashion and alternating between black-and-white photography and colour. There’s an abundance of style and much of the onscreen imagery looks divine, but often it’s more a case of style over substance and any drama or tension needed for the telling of such a story dissipates. As a fan of Moby’s music I was instantly thrilled upon hearing his material used in the film however otherwise DEVILS IN DISGUISE glided over my sensibilities and left me admiring its style but missing the substance.
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