Mathilde Lacombe

Jacqueline Byers’ upcoming psychological drama, ‘Prey for the Devil’, is sure to captivate audiences with its intense and mysterious story. The film follows a young woman as she attempts to uncover the truth behind her missing father’s death, only to be confronted with an even bigger mystery involving a supernatural force. While some may label this movie as horror due to its mysterious and eerie atmosphere, Jacqueline Byers insists that it is, in fact, a psychological drama. The film has all the elements necessary to be a legendary horror film, but they are all in chaos, which makes the result totally unsatisfactory. 

Story of Prey For The Devil from Jacqueline Buyers Perspective

Actress Jacqueline Byers has explained why she chose to use the psychological drama “Prey for the Devil” as a horror film experience.

The movie opens with the catholic church restarting its exorcism schools to instruct priests in the Rite of Exorcism in response to an increase in demonic possessions across the globe. Jacqueline Byers will portray Sister Ann’s central character.

According to her, who portrays the part of Ann in the film, “While Prey for the Devil plays as an extreme horror movie knowledge, I approached it as a psychological drama, especially the psychology of Ann and what drives her.”

She describes Ann as a “wounded healer” who has endured a great deal in her life and doesn’t want anybody else to experience what she did. Ann’s motivation comes from protecting her mother’s honor. Ann believed there had to be a cause for the suffering, dread, and anxiety they both experienced.

“Ann needs her mother’s said possession to be actual. So Ann enrolls in the school’s exorcism program while pretending to be a regular nurse. But despite the restrictions people try to place on her, her ambition has consistently outpaced them.

The Storyline of the Horror Cum Psychological Movie

The Roman Catholic Church plans to reopen its exorcism training institutes in response to a global rise in demonic possessions. Nuns are also welcomed, but they are not permitted to execute exorcisms until a professor acknowledges Sister Ann’s abilities and agrees to train her. She is battling both the demons of her past and the demons she is trying to exercise.

The difference between a good and bad horror movie is frequently relatively narrow. The Devil’s Prey is visible way below that line. The plot is similar to any classic possession movie. However, the picture sadly lacks one key element that drives any horror movie: lingering mysteries and terrifying moments. Instead, the movie focuses on the Roman Catholic Church-run School of Exorcisms, where priests receive training in the exorcism process. The institution also employs nuns, but they are only permitted to care for the patients and not carry out exorcisms.

Enter Sister Ann, who promotes herself as a female exorcist using “feminist propaganda”. She is admitted to the class with only priests after a professor recognizes her talent for treating possessed patients. A sequence of flashback scenes from her history is used to illustrate her reasons for acting and why she is still in school.

As the moments lack depth and nuance, it is difficult to feel sympathy for her plight. She is trying hard to do whatever it takes to save Natalie, a young child she believes is tormented by the same demon as her mother. The demon’s obsession with Ann’s soul is never explained in the narrative.

The movie features a lot of exorcism sequences, but none of them successfully set up the final fight. Even jumpscares, a horror genre staple, are used so ineffectively that anyone can predict it from a mile away. While Christian Navarro (Father Dante) and Jacqueline Byers (Sister Ann) give their performances their all, the weak writing ultimately works against them. 

The movie fails to deliver any sense of fear and nearly seems to be made entirely for something else. Any mental ailment is quickly diverted as a demonic possession, with ignorance as the cause of death. The movie attempts to empower women poorly because it is only very weakly indicated.

This movie’s title, which makes it sound better than it is, is the only thing that stands out. The cinema comprises standard, overused scenes because of the poor jumpscares and a weak plot. Prey for the Devil is an unmemorable and subpar movie all around.