Any movie that uses Unsolved Mysteries clips is off to a good start. I went into Devil’s Backbone, Texas without great expectations, thanks to a 4.0 on IMDB and found footage/mockumentary format. However, this movie immediately presents an authentic documentary tone that is unprecedented in horror. Jake Wade Wall (who stars, wrote, and directed) seeks closure regarding the death of his estranged, eccentric father (Bert Wall – who really wrote ghost stories about the Devil’s Backbone area in Texas) by traveling with friends to the home and land that seemed to haunt the man up until his demise. Escalatingly strange occurrences ensue. Wall blends reality and fiction brilliantly and achieves a product much more impressive than Adam Green’s similarly-formatted Digging Up The Marrow.
