Dictionary Definition
devour
Verb
1 destroy completely; "Fire had devoured our
home"
2 enjoy avidly; "She devoured his novels"
3 eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound
of meat in the course of one meal" [syn: down, consume, go
through]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Verb
Translations
to eat greedily
- Dutch: verslinden
- Finnish: ahmia
- French: dévorer
- German: verschlingen
- Italian: divorare
- Japanese: 貪る(むさぼる, musaboru)
- Old English: fretan
- Portuguese: devorar
Extensive Definition
Devour is a 2005 film which was
directed by David
Winkler. The story follows Jake Gray (Jensen
Ackles), a young man who's been having bizarre visions of
murder and self-mutilation,
and his experience with an live roleplay-like online game
called "The Pathway" (a similar roleplaying as seen in The
Game).
Following the deaths of his friends Conrad
(Teach
Grant) and Dakota (Dominique
Swain), who introduced him to the game, Jake soon learns that
"The Pathway" is actually being run by a man named Aiden Kater
(Martin
Cummins) and his band of Devil-worshippers.
They've been using it to look for a specific person, even as they
manipulate others into killing. As their final acts, the victims of
"The Pathway" commit suicide in various gruesome
ways.
With help from Marisol (Shannyn
Sossamon), a new friend who dabbles in the mystic occult, Jake learns from a man
called Ivan Reisz (William
Sadler) that his wife, Anne Kilton, and their
unborn child were taken by Kater and sacrificed to the devil. Soon after, he tracks down
Kater and learns that Anne was not in fact sacrificed to the devil,
that she gave birth, and that her child was stolen by mortals, and raised as a human. He is that child, the
person whom "The Pathway" was created to find, and Anne is really
Satan
herself.
Ultimately, Jake confronts his birth mother (who
has killed his adoptive
parents) in the very place where he was stolen from her. Following
his rejection and attempted murder of her, Jake is shown a vision
of the night he was
born. He awakens covered
with blood on the ground the next day, only to be arrested for the murder of his
parents. The movie ends
with Jake wondering if everything (including Pathway itself) really
wasn't created by his imagination and if he had committed all those
murders.