I TRAPPED THE DEVIL

Ah Christmas, that joyful time of endless family gatherings, top-heavy dinners, and jangling Jingle Bells! Matt wants to surprise his brother Steve and pays him an unannounced visit. The idea is to spend the festive season together like all decent families but they aren’t exactly being welcomed with open arms. Soon they find out why: in his basement, Steve is holding the devil incarnate under lock and key, or so he thinks. Understandably, Matt is concerned with his dear brother’s mental sanity. It’s one or the other: either he’s holding the Prince of Darkness himself or he’s completely lost his marbles. They’d better get ready for a Christmas from hell! We just adore first-time directors and many are the names who first stepped into the limelight on the BIFFF stage. Now we’re adding Josh Lobo to the list. He took charge of producing, writing, directing, and editing I TRAPPED THE DEVIL. In this horror flick for the post-Marc Dutroux era, he caught some great actors before his lens. Or how about Chris Sullivan (GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2, STRANGER THINGS, THE KNICK, THE DROP) and Jocelin Donahue (SUMMER CAMP, FURIOUS SEVEN, INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2)?