Made by the fittingly named Adams family, this unit of filmmakers has produced a daring folk horror with an ending fans cannot get over. 

Where the Devils Roams has a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes critic score with experts gushing over the cinematography and chilling effects of this daring folk horror.

Winning the 2023 Best Motion Picture award from New Visions this underrated horror is now available to stream for free on Tubi.

The story begins in the bleak economic depression in America when a family of performers struggle with a brutal circus life.

The three sisters have a range of eerie obsessions from scissors to hammers. Eve sings on stage to earn the family’s keep but a grim and bloody undercurrent is brewing behind the curtains.

When the sisters and their parents are cut loose, Eve steals magic from a sinister dealer and the Devil makes his first moves.

Rocco T Thompson wrote: “The Adams stretch their biggest canvas yet, crafting a homespun tale set in a frostbitten world of backwater sideshows that loses color throughout its runtime like blood draining from a neglected wound.

“The Adams Family approach to horror has always been more lyrical than grounded, and that tack reaches full flower here, with Where the Devil Roams emerging as their most boldly experimental and fluidly musical work: a chilly family parable that feels like a folk-metal fusion of Nightmare Alley and Frankenstein.”

The ending seems to haunt anyone that watches the film with one fan writing: “Sometimes you venture into a film with zero expectations, and emerge floored by what you have just witnessed. You didn’t see it coming and are grateful for having been so pleasantly blindsided.

Another wrote: “Always meticulous in style, sound design and idiosyncratic performance, real life partners John Adams, Toby Poser and their daughter Zelda Adams write and direct their beautifully haunting tale and star as the sinister yet relatable carnies themselves, harbouring a dark collective secret that slowly burgeons with each new muted yet shocking blast of violence on their fascinating voyage through America during one of its roughest periods.”

Another explained: “John Adams, Toby Poser, and their daughters Zelda and Lulu are making some of the most interesting and unique genre films today. Where the Devil Roams is the latest feature from the Adams family who, about a decade ago, decided to pick up a camera and make a movie together in a truly collaborative manner.

“They all act in their movies, they write the scripts together (often on the fly as the film evolves), they take turns operating the camera, they build the sets, they write and perform the music, they edit the films; there seems to be no part of production they aren’t intimately involved with.”