The Devil Conspiracy (2022) Movie Night (Premium E256) Sample
A religious art historian is inseminated with a clone of Jesus Christ by a cabal of Satanists who plan on letting Lucifer possess the baby and return to earth, bringing hell with him. But not if tactical Archangel Michael possessing the body of a dead priest has anything to say about it. Enjoy a quality QAA movie night.
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Welcome to the QAA Podcast, Premium Episode 256, The Devil Conspiracy Movie Night.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Rokitansky, Julian Field, and Travis View.
This week, I have reached into the depths of Disney Plus to bring you some rotting food buried beneath the adequately refrigerated heaps of Star Wars movies and shows.
The film is called The Devil Conspiracy, and it has left a pool of brown liquid at the bottom of my vegetable drawer.
Okay, two things.
Yes?
First, how the fuck is this on Disney Plus?
That's insane.
And second, this is better than Star Wars and Marvel.
I don't know if I'd say that.
I enjoyed it so much.
It had at least the joys of a B-movie.
It was so outrageous.
It was going for it.
Some of the special effects were actually enjoyable.
Yeah.
I don't know.
This movie had a little bit more swag than I expected.
Yeah, I thought I was bringing everybody a real stinker just based on the blurb on the movie tile, which I'll read to you in a second.
But yeah, I ended up being kind of surprised at how competent in some ways it was.
Yeah, I mean, it is patently insane to be like, one of my characters is Lucifer.
Another one of my characters is the Archangel Michael.
Like, I mean, that is, you know, you're like, oh, well, that's a bit too far.
This is going to be like a really cheesy kind of Christian movie or... Yeah, that's... But no, no, no, no.
They just are going for it in a way that is actually not very Christian.
Like, this is not a kind of... If I'm Christian watching this movie, I would be profoundly disturbed.
Yeah.
It is profane, I believe.
It's also, yeah, it's gonzo.
I mean, they absolutely go for it.
Yeah, I think my expectations were very low as soon as I had the movie described to me, but despite, you know, its flaws, it is at least joyfully outrageous.
Yes, yes.
So go ahead, set us up here, my friend.
Well, yeah, I sort of was expecting what you were, Julian, kind of like a Christian attempt at a blockbuster, at a sort of horror sci-fi blockbuster, you know, but horribly produced, you know, like something like God's Not Dead, where it's just, or what was the flag movie that we watched that was absolutely terrible?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We can't even remember.
It's gone.
Dreams of my flagger.
Yeah, I was expecting, you know, something that, you know, potentially was shot entirely on green screen, but no, no.
So, so The Devil Conspiracy, so I've seen this movie kind of slide by me at various points during our nightly game of flip through the hundreds of movies and decide on something quick before it's too late and you have to go to bed.
I'm sure you're all familiar with this game.
Yeah, I basically have stopped playing it because otherwise you spend more time doing that than watching anything.
Of course!
I'm back on Torrents, like, I don't even have many of my subs anymore for the streaming services.
I am back to, like, University Julian.
Wow, good for you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I'm using a little VPN.
I'm doing illegal activity.
Meanwhile, I'm like, oh, don't scroll too long because, like, you could, like, you could end up in a fight.
All right, so the Hulu title card is devilishly melted, looking kind of like a C-movie ripoff of 300.
And coincidentally, it stars one of the actors from 300.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it had been catching my interest for a while, and the film's description is as follows.
A biotech company has technology to clone history's most influential figures.
Behind them are Satanists who steal the Shroud of Christ, giving them possession of Jesus' DNA to create an offering to the devil.
Archangel Michael comes to Earth to stop them.
I mean, yeah, you read that, you're like, okay, this is going to be crazy.
And it's true that in the very opening moments of the movie, they start doing that debating the faith, debating faith and is Christianity real or not?
Is it just a fun story and cool and we should study it as history and a history of art?
Or is this real?
But they definitely are not setting up to be a Christian movie.
They get that out of the way.
There's no debate.
Even once it's so horribly proven within moments that everything is real, even more real than maybe, even more real than you could ever imagine, the most realist, they do not linger on that question.
It is not about whether you should have faith.
Yeah, they don't, like, linger on anything.
I think one of the notes that I made while watching this is that every scene feels like a different movie, which kind of rules in its own way.
Like, you read this description and you're like, cloning history's most influential figures?
Like, it's got some Bill and Ted vibes, which is really weird.
There's some aliens vibes later on.
I mean, it's got...
Let's get into it.
So I was left with no choice but to throw this rotting carcass of a movie over my shoulder and bring it back to Julian and Travis, laying it at their feet, hopeful for praise that I found tonight's supper.
The table has been set.
The feast has been prepared.
Let us say grace before we eat.
Dear Lord, thank you for this bountiful meal.
A nearly two-hour film that features the smoke monster from Lost playing Satan and baby clone Michelangelo being auctioned off to the cabal.
Our tummies will be sick, but they will be full, Lord, and for that we are grateful.
Amen.
Wow, so yeah, I think we're trying to compete for who can be more profane, the movie or this episode.
I'm glad Annie's not around right now because she would be horrified.
Well, and I'm Jewish, too, so that's a triple insult.
But also, amen, brother.
The Devil Conspiracy is helmed by Canadian director Nathan Frankowski and is a collaboration between American and Czech production companies.
It stars Alice Orr Ewing of Atonement and the Theory of Everything, Joe Doyle, who starred in the TV shows Rain and Salem, and Peter Mensah, who is in 300 and Avatar.
Now, in 300, he is the messenger who comes before Leonidas and tells him that, like, you know, gives him the Persians' demands, and then they basically kick him into the pit.
So he plays Michael the Archangel.
There's also a cameo from James Faulkner, who does voices in League of Legends, and he also had a character run on Game of Thrones, the TV show.
The film was shot on location in the Czech Republic and in Prague, whose incredible architecture and landscapes definitely make the film feel like it has a higher budget than it probably does.
I was amazed by how high budget this movie feels.
Yes, and so Milan Ciatama is the cinematographer and it is most likely because of him and production designer Ondrej Lepenski that the movie squeezes every last drop out of what I'm assuming is a fairly modest budget given today's blockbuster standards.
I would imagine three to five million.
What do you mean you would imagine?
You just had to Google it.
No, I could not.
Usually I can find the budget data.
I could not find it on this.
Okay, so this was like definitely some sort of money laundering scam.
Yeah, I know how much it made.
I know how much it made.
We'll get to that.
But I do not know the budget, but I would guess that a script like this, the only way you could get it greenlit with, you know, they don't have a huge star attached or anything like that.
It's kind of out there, very B-movie.
I'm guessing all that a studio would pay would be I usually am so critical, but I thought the cinematography was absolutely passable.
There was obviously a lot of CGI, but I don't know.
It didn't really, like, bother me.
It honestly looked better than the majority of Marvel.
I know!
I usually am so critical, but I thought the cinematography was absolutely passable.
There was obviously a lot of CGI, but I don't know.
It didn't really bother me.
It honestly looked better than the majority of Marvel.
I know.
The majority of Star Wars garbage that we see.
This was well executed because they didn't get ahead of their skis here.
They just were like, let's kind of shoot it relatively straightforward, and then we'll use CGI for really cool scenes where you see baby Satan in the womb breathing black smoke and shit like that.
Stuff that's worth it.
Well, I remember we got a text from Travis yesterday after he watched it that he was like, man, the costume design for Lucifer is really fucking cool.
And I was like, yeah!
I thought Archangel Michael was awesome.
Like, he was very fun.
I mean, they maybe went a little too far with that.
I love the idea of a tactical Archangel Michael.
And like, there's a part of this movie that just feels like it's like an action movie.
Yes.
Yeah, it's awesome.
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