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Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Absolutely brilliant

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

The Devil's Tattoo is set in the North sea just off the coast of Scotland & starts as ten members of an environmental protection group called Action Planet land on an abandoned oil rig called Janus which is due to be sunk & left as a natural reef, the activists lead by Vincent (Jaason Simmons) disagree with the plans & feel it will pollute the sea. The group find the rig totally abandoned & can only muster a limited power supply, while looking around Eric (Rory McCann) is bitten by a rat & he then kills his mate Kay (Richard Norton). Things get strange when it is in fact Eric who is found dead by the other's & Kay destroys the radio, the only way the group had to contact the outside world. Then bizarrely Kay is found dead, as the group investigate they find video recordings made by the oil rig workers that claim an evil body jumping spirit is on the loose. No-one is able to trust anyone else as the evil spirit jumps from body to body...This English production is perhaps better known under it's widely released working title of Ghost Rig & was co-written, co-produced & directed by Julian Kean, the best way to describe The Devil's Tattoo is to think of a cross between The Thing (1982) & Ghost Ship (2002) which doesn't exactly sound like a match made in heaven but I thought The Devil's Tattoo had some good aspects but at the the same time it has some bad ones which overall let it down. I suppose what it boils down to is whether you can overcome the bad & enjoy the good because if you can't then you will have a hard time watching The Devil's Tattoo. The script by Kean, Sally Charlton along with producers Bill Dale & Greame Clapperton takes the well used horror film storyline of some sort of bodily possession as seen so effectively in The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Hidden (1987) & Fallen (1998) to name but a few the only difference here is that it's an evil ghost rather than an alien invader but the principal is still the same. This aspect of the film isn't used as effectively as it could have been, the audience is almost always made aware of who is possessed & therefore a lot of potential intrigue & tension is lost. Then there's the bunch of survivors running around the dark corridors of an isolated location trying to survive angle to the story, I'm sorry but to me scene after scene after scene of people wandering around near pitch black corridors just becomes tedious & annoying. Then there's the really left of center strange twist ending which I doubt anyone will see coming but is just so odd & not entirely satisfying. To it's credit it's just a complete surprise & fairly cleverly thought out but I didn't think it was an appropriate way to finish the film & didn't work. The character's are alright although at the start there are maybe slightly too many to keep track of but as they are killed off it becomes less of a problem.Director Kean does OK here, he makes the most out of his locations although as I have said there's too much walking around dark corridors. There are a few problems with the story too, for instance if anyone possessed is healed why at the end when Mole is cut does his wound not heal? When he gets shot why doesn't he heal? It contradicts everything that has happened before surely? Also we never find out what this evil demon thing is, there is some vague reference to the oil rig workers messing around with Voodoo (yeah because most North sea oil rig workers perform evil Voodoo rituals on the platform during their time off don't they?) but nothing beyond that. There isn't even any reason given as to why it needs to jump from body to body, I mean does it do it just for fun? To my eyes there didn't seem to be a lot of point to it. The gore is limited to a few stab wounds & a bit of blood as The Devil's Tattoo goes for psychological horror which is only partially successful since it reveals who is possessed to easily. There's a reasonably good atmosphere though with the dark rundown & abandoned oil rig making for an effectively sinister & isolated setting.Technically the film is good & it seems to have decent production values, I'm not sure if this was shot on a real oil rig but it wouldn't surprise me if it was. The end credits claim it was shot in Scotland & London, that it was funded at least in part by the National Lottery & The Devil's Tattoo is maybe the only film I have seen which has a 'Portable Toilets Supplied By' credit! The acting is alright to be fair although I didn't recognise anyone in it.The Devil's Tattoo could have been a good creepy psychological horror film but is actually a relatively slow film with some good ideas but too much wandering around in the dark doing nothing in particular. I wouldn't call it a bad film just one with a lot more potential, I am in two minds really as I liked some aspects of it but disliked other's.

Pay no attention to the stupid ramblings of myzyri who could only lecture about the poor acting and low budget graphics. If, like myzyri, you'd rather have a Hollywood big budgeted, tons of graphics crapfest like The Haunting, then by all means skip past this one. But if you enjoy indie films made for the genre rather than filling the studios coffers, then give this one a try.The Devil's Tattoo borrows much from John Carpenter's The Thing but it adds a supernatural twist to keep things interesting. Neither the cast nor crew will win any Oscars, but who really cares? These kinds of movies are about cheap thrills and keeping things interesting for 90 minutes and this film delivers on both fronts. A very pleasant surprise that only the most cynical or arrogant (myzyri) of silly fanboys won't enjoy.

The camera-work on this movie was scarier than the "horror" movie itself. I have no doubt that the Mini DV camcorder they show in the movie is one of the cameras the movie was filmed with. The computer graphics (two very short scenes with the helicopter) resembled the graphics from old Atari video games. Beyond this, the acting was pathetic. I've seen better acting in kindergarten plays at the local grammar school. The movie opened with a very boring sequence and the progression of the plot didn't begin until the middle of the movie. The subsequent un-entertaining deaths were expected, the "monster's" actions were predictable, and the rest of the movie was dull. The last 45 seconds of the movie was interesting in that it ties everything together; however, it was also predictable (if you were coherent enough to pay attention). All in all, the best part of the movie is arguable, so I'll tell you my two favorite parts. My first favorite part was the DVD menu because it didn't include the lousy acting and remedial camera-work. My second favorite part was the credits because it let me know that it was the conclusion of this abomination to the film industry.

Honestly, I picked this up with hopes of it being entertaining but fully expecting a lame movie. Not a lot of decent horror flicks anymore, so I usually will reach further with that particular genre.Anywho, this film was a pleasant surprise. The story seems a bit on shaky ground in the beginning but picks up steam for a good second half of the movie. No spoilers here, but I was definitely intrigued by the ending. Quite an interesting turn.The acting was fair to middlin' with no one giving a particularly memorable role but none sinking the rig, so to speak. Have to give mad props to the writer for naming the enviros Action Planet. No worries about trademark infringement there.Ok so this movie definitely wasn't great. I do recommend on the basis of if you're looking for a decent movie that finishes strong give it a shot.