If the devil is in the details, Devil could use fewer of them. Writer-producer M. Night Shyamalan’s planned series of spooky, seemingly family-friendly “Night Chronicles” begins with the world’s very first claustrophobic-whodonit-recovering alcoholic-boogie man-slasher-Christian morality tale. Devil packs a lot of business into 80 brisk minutes but is shockingly short on fun or fright. What should be a simple, fool-proof setup for a chiller of confinement — five strangers get stuck on a broken elevator and mysteriously start dropping dead — gets overwhelmed by enough incident and absurdity to make a Goosebumps fan roll her eyes.
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REVIEW: Producer-Writer Shyamalan’s Devil Short on Fun, Fright
