- Content: “Only God Can Thwart Demonic Plans”
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What You Need To Know:
NEFARIOUS is an intense, spooky thriller with a few good twists, dramatic dialogue, excellent performances, and riveting direction. It has a strong Christian worldview that dramatically depicts the battle between God and Satan’s world of demonic evil. God is clearly more powerful, however. For example, in one scene a character appeals to God and God performs a miracle. However, NEFARIOUS has a very strong execution scene that warrants extreme caution. The movie also has three relatively light obscenities and some scary conversations with a man who claims to be a demon. Eventually, the demon’s plans in NEFARIOUS are thwarted, but in an unexpected way that involves an Act of God.
Content:
Strong Christian worldview as a skeptical secular psychologist interviews a condemned man who says he’s actually a demon and psychologist eventually talks to both the demon and the possessed man, who’s depicted as a victim of the demon, and the psychologist’s skepticism is seriously shaken, and there’s an appeal to God for help over a demonic power and a miracle of answered prayer occurs, plus a demon claims he has possessed the soul of a condemned serial killer, and there’s discussion of faith at the end and earlier in the movie, but no one overtly comes to Jesus, though skepticism about faith is refuted
Three light obscenities, and a character appeals to God for help, and his informal prayer is answered positively
Extreme execution scene, a condemned man grabs another man and threatens to strangle him with his chains, there’s a scene where a man jumps out of a high story window, a man waves a gun around and turns it on himself, and a man tries to stop his girlfriend from going through with an abortion of their baby, but he fails to reach her in time
No sex scenes, but man’s girlfriend gets an abortion when he fails to stop her in time
No nudity
No alcohol use
Two characters smoke cigarettes, but there are no drugs; and,
Demon refers to his “master,” Satan, expresses jealousy, hostility and hatred toward God, Jesus and mankind.
More Detail:
The movie opens with one psychiatrist committing suicide by jumping out a window. Cut to another psychiatrist, Dr. James Martin, taking the dead psychiatrist’s place. Martin is entering a prison to interview a condemned serial killer, Edward Wayne Brady, before his scheduled execution at 11 pm. The warden wants Martin to declare Brady sane so that the execution can take place as scheduled. He gives Martin until 4 pm to decide.
However, when Martin starts to interrogate Brady, Brady tells Martin that he’s actually taking to a demon calling himself Nefarious. The demon claims that his possession of Brady took place in stages since he was a child but says that Brady is now totally under his control. Martin asks Nefarious to talk to Brady, and Brady is a whimpering, pitiable creature.
Martin is still skeptical, however. He asks Nefarious to give him proof that he’s really a demon, but Martin gets more than he bargained for by making such a foolish demand.
NEFARIOUS is an intense, spooky thriller with a well-written script and a few good twists. Sean Patrick Flanery and Jordan Belfi as Nefarious and the psychiatrist, Dr. Martin, have to hold up the story since most of the movie involves their characters doing verbal battle. They do a great job, which also means that the movie is directed well.
NEFARIOUS has a strong Christian worldview that dramatically depicts the age-old battle between God and Satan’s world of demonic evil. God is clearly more powerful, however. For example, in one scene a character appeals to God for help against a demonic power, and God performs a miracle, answering the prayer.
NEFARIOUS contains a very strong, intense execution scene. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution. The movie also has three relatively light obscenities and some scary conversations with a man who claims to be a demon. Eventually, the demon’s plans are thwarted, but in an unexpected way that involves an Act of God.
