Devil(also known asThe Night Chronicles: Devil) is a 2010 American supernatural horror film directed by John Erick Dowdle and written by Brian Nelson based on a story by M. Night Shyamalan . The film stars Chris Messina , Bojana Novakovic , Bokeem Woodbine , Logan Marshall-Green , Jenny O'Hara and Geoffrey Arend .Devilwas released on September 17, 2010, and is the first ofThe Night Chroniclestrilogy,which involves the supernatural within modern urban society.Devilopened at the number three spot in the box office opening weekend, taking in a total of $12 million.

Based on recent film clips, Ysamur Flores and the directors ofDevil, John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle , explain that the movie is based on a Devil's Meeting, which is a premise that the Devil is on Earth to test evildoers by tormenting them.

Shyamalan acknowledged that the basic structure of the story was "an Agatha Christie nod."In Christie's 1939 novelAnd Then There Were None, as inDevil, a group of people with guilty pasts are trapped in an isolated location and begin to die one by one. The final plot twist is also the same, with the villain being revealed as one of the group who was thought to have died earlier in the story.