The Devil’s Carnival (2012): Cast & Plot

God, in his heavenly workshop, works quietly at his craft, painting a face onto a doll. He nods as he corrects the eyebrows, then discards the imperfect piece into a bin labeled “Broken” and begins anew. On Earth, three lives are perilously close to ending: John [John] is overwhelmed by grief after losing his son, Daniel; a thief named Ms. Merrywood [Ms. Merrywood] is cut down in a trailer after a shootout with the police; and Tamara, a teenage girl, is slain by her enraged boyfriend. At the moment of their deaths, they are welcomed by the denizens of Hell, a carnival-world that promises a different fate to the recently departed. The air fills with a whispered line, Heaven’s All Around, as the afterlife takes on a new, twisted form.