Inside (Unrated) Reviews

• A nice surprise. Scary and Gory.

  
  By APOUYO1BEPK22 on 2008-04-27
  Having read a lot of reviews on this movie and a lot of the praise it's getting, I had to try this movie out. And boy am I glad I did.
  
  Let me get this out of the way, I do not THINK you will like this movie if you do not like gore in your movie. Cause there is a lot of it in the end. It's not all gore though cause the movie does start off pretty scary also. There was one scene that seriously made me get an uneasy scared feeling. I don't want to ruin it though so I won't mention it here. There were also scenes that made me feel uneasy in a different way... as in a `turn your head and don't look at that gore' way.
  
  Ok now that that is out there, the movie starts out with a car wreck that's already happened. We see a woman, Sarah, bloodied and barely alive. Her dead husband or boyfriend (I can't remember) is next to her in the passenger seat. Sarah is also pregnant.
  
  We see Sarah later at the doc's office. She's getting her baby looked at and is told they'll be inducing labor the next day. She looks miserable, and it's because of her lost love, not her new kid, who I don't think she even cares about anymore.
  
  That night she is visited by a stranger at the door. And we, the viewer, are visited by a really good scary/gory movie. I thought the mood of the movie turned over from a little boring to unnerving to suspenseful to shocking to crazy in exactly the right moments and it was done so well. The atmosphere of the house is so claustrophobic that I constantly found myself having a hard time breathing. You want her to run, but you know she cant just make a break for it for two reason. No room and a big prego belly.
  
  Now there are some things that didn't make sense that might turn some people into haters. For instance...the bathroom door was really easy to pierce with a pair of scissors and a glass shard, but was able to stand up to a bunch of kicks trying to knock it down. Also the cops were pretty stupid. And there are a few other things. But who cares. The movie was fun and did what I think it wanted to try and do. Scare you... and gross you out.
  
  Scary AND gory. Great movie.
  
  
  P.S. Did anyone see the number on the house that this happened at? I did....666. hehe
  
  P.P.S The French walk REEEAAALLLY slow when they are leaving a hospital and talking to a friend.
  
  
  

• Have you ever heard of adoption Lady...........

  
  By A3C6CZC2JP67VK on 2008-05-21
  Well, I guess I can start off this review by saying that this is solid proof that Euro-Horror and it's director's are so far ahead of us Americans when it comes to the horror genre. While our studios are continuing to crank out remakes, and basically recycling stuff that have sat in the can for years - it are the European filmmakers who are out there whipping up new and imaginative ideas like they usually do.
  
  From French Directing duo, Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury, comes INSIDE, a film that exploits a subject that surely has to be any mother's nightmare - having their child taken away from them. Now, I suppose that this would be hard for any mother, regardless the age of the child - but it has to be that much harder when the child is still in womb. In the film, we watch the main character go through the trauma of losing her husband to a crash. After the aftermath of the situation, she still keeps her sanity, just knowing that a piece of him remains, in the form of their unborn. What the Directors do here, is, well....wreck that sanity she has left, and they do it brutally. There is a mysterious woman hell bent on claiming Sarah's baby as her own. Whether she's have to kill Sarah, or just blatantly extract it from her womb, she is bound to finally become a mother herself.
  
  INSIDE is definitely a thrill ride from the beginning to end....it's one of those "you'll never see what's coming next" kind of films. I must say that the realistic gore in the film is just fantastic and brutal, it adds more tension to any already intense situation - but the fact of the matter is that through the course of this film we watch an innocent woman(Sarah) go through absolute hell, while fighting to keep her and her beloved child alive,
  
  The production value and direction here are great, and really capture all of the tense moments. For the most part, the film has but only one location, which is Sarah's house. I have always said that the one location thing could be a disaster (Bug (Special Edition) anyone?), but if they're handled correctly. a primary set could be the best thing to happen to a film. In the case of INSIDE, having one location works out very well as in conveys the feeling of being trapped from the point of view of our victim. And like many films of the same type. you do expect everything to dull down after awhile, but truth is, once this film gets to the subject of it's plot, there are very few dull moments, as the special effects alone are enough to have you glued to your seat. And another thing about the film is it's visual effects - I loved the CGI shots of the baby in the womb.
  
  In the end, there's a reason that INSIDE was released under the DIMENSION EXTREME label; it is extreme, violent, brutal and just about every other adjective that you can think to call it - the scary thing is that the film's subject is one that could happen anywhere in the world or any day of the week.
  
  
  

• Truly Sick, But Truly Awesome

  
  By A1YFXQMLPAELU8 on 2008-01-17
  This is one of the most stomach-churning movies I've ever seen, but if you like gore, this movie's the best! The whole movie basically takes place in a house, but it's so intense that you're on the edge of your seat the entire time. It's rare to have a woman be the villain, but this woman is psychotic and more frightening than most male villains. Not for the squeemish, but definitely worth a look.
  
  

• Absolutely brutal

  
  By A2D7B5I7ZQ51XL on 2008-02-18
  *** This comment may contain spoilers ***
  
  À l'intérieur (2007/8)
  
  'À l'intérieur' is the much-talked-about release from first-time writer/director Alexandre Bustillo (the man behind the upcoming 2009 'Hellraiser' reboot). The film, a brutal one to say the least, focuses on a pregnant woman who becomes the subject of a mysterious and violent stalker. Moving from a startling open scene with a violently damaged foetus to a rather bloody mess of a fatal car accident which seriously injures our star, Sarah (played by Alysson Paradis, sister of Johnny Depp's partner, Vanessa) and kills the father, Matthieu (Jean-Baptiste Tabourin).
  
  The actual plot starts four months later (which seems a bit surprising as Sarah's baby bump was already looking like a baby hill at the time of the wreck, and she's just now arriving near her due date). The disturbed Sarah, an action photographer for the local journal, suffers from some seriously odd dreams involving vomiting up copious amounts of some milky substance, CGI black cats and birthing her child, err, incorrectly . It's after one of these nightmares that Sarah meets the terrifying Femme (Béatrice Dalle) at her, Sarah's, front door. Sarah, perturbed by the oddities of the meeting and La Femme's resistance to leave, phones the police. Here, we learn one important thing: French police ACTUALLY care! In most American films (and real-life situations), a late-night distress call about a nuisance at your door would usually result in one officer driving by the house hours too late. In France, however, three cops arrive quickly, do a full check of the premises, AND a follow up. Now THAT is civil service! Unfortunately for Sarah, however, this fine police work doesn't stop La Femme from a series of gruesome attacks on Sarah, her unborn child, and a couple more people (and animals) she holds dear to her. The film continues on for the majority like that. . . torture, attacks, and lots of blood. And, while it sounds like 90% of horror films from the past few years, it's not. At all. There's something special about this one.
  
  For a film that primarily takes place in three rooms of one house, À l'intérieur is one of the most powerful and disturbing films to come along in a long, long time. It's only made more intense by some fantastic acting by victim (Alysson Paradis) and attacker (Béatrice Dalle) and some very realistic gore. . . not to mention one of the most fantastically insane and cringe-inducing endings in cinematic history.
  
  All horror filmmakers and fans looking for the perfect way to make a modern torture or vengeance film should study this one intently, because this is as close as you'll find. . .
  
  Final Verdict: 9.5/10.
  
  

• Own it.

  
  By A3GRN30AT6EAJA on 2008-03-08
  Directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo's INSIDE (original title: À L'INTÉRIEUR) has proven once again that if anyone has their mutilated finger pressed firmly to the pulse of horror, it's the French. This scribe hasn't seen anything quite this cinematically dangerous since their countryman Gaspar Noé's gut-punch of a flick IRREVERISIBLE, and like that film, INSIDE proves to be a rollercoaster gone off the gore-drenched rails, as well as a film that, while paying homage to the slasher film, redefines the genre itself. Kudos to LA's Screamfest for helping expose this Euro masterpiece to the U.S. masses.
  
  Written by Bustillo, INSIDE has an opening setup that is familiar enough to horror cineastes: A young married couple are involved in a horrific car accident on a rainy country lane, one which the husband doesn't survive. Four months later, his pregnant widow Sarah (portrayed with astounding commitment by actress and sister-in-law to Johnny Depp Alysson Paradis) is scheduled for induced labor. Still mourning the loss of her husband and in a disconnected emotional state, Sarah decides, much to the chagrin of her mother, to spend Christmas Eve alone in preparation for the following morning's birth. It is here where things shift gears following a simple knock on her door, and while savvy audiences will certainly ascertain the identity of the (soon-to-be malevolent) stranger (this scribe did, even before the visually stunning opening credits rolled by), it's the clever road of carnage leading up to--and after--the reveal that will keep those with strong stomachs in their seats, and perhaps drive those with lesser fortitude to a state of nausea.
  
  Pure and simple, the conceit is that Sarah's visitor wants her unborn baby, and isn't content to wait for its natural birth; the intruder's pair of 10-inch shears prove undeniable testament to that. Portrayed with acute gravity by Beatrice Dalle and billed simply as "La Femme" (a nod to John Carpenter's "The Shape"?), this villainess is an altogether terrifying amalgamation of covetous, bloody and remorseless savagery.
  
  More importantly, both women's emotional states and motivations ring true, and thus so does the narrative. However far Maury, Bustillo and producers Véran Frédiani and Franck Ribière push the envelope (and in fact break it), the proceedings, beyond one or two leaps of logic in the third act, carry the audience along effortlessly. There is something raw, familiar and human here, with each character's respective motivations nuanced and believable, and as a result the already red-lined suspense attains an intensity not seen in many years, with an ending that's entirely unpredictable and unquestionably grim.
  
  Assisting considerably in the tension department are cinematographer Laurent Bares and composer Francois Eudes, who together lend an element of dreadful class to the flick, carrying the audience from the at-first womblike confines of Sarah's home to the charnel house it becomes. Bares channels Carpenter's approach to HALLOWEEN in his framing, utilizing negative space and expressionistic lighting to spectacular effect, while Eudes takes a cue from the minimalist synthesized score of Carpenter's classic and delivers an aural component that is at times lulling and at others entirely unnerving.
  
  As for the carnage on display, makeup FX supervisor Jacques-Olivier Molon and visual FX overseers Rodolphe Guglielmi and Bourdonnay Judikael deliver the goods and then some. A self-induced tracheotomy, a partial decapitation by gunshot, an unsettling homage to David Lynch's BLUE VELVET and various burnings, bludgeonings and stabbings, as well as the pièce de résistance (which I won't give away, and must be seen to be believed) are all delivered with such organic viscera that it's nearly overwhelming. The French have apparently perfected the consistency and palate of stage blood; never before has arterial spray looked so damned...real (which is most likely why Dimension snapped it up for straight-to-DVD release via its genre-centric Extreme imprint; there's no way this flick would garner anything less than an NC-17 from the MPAA).
  
  Vive la France!
  
  See it.
  
  - Sean Decker / Fangoria Magazine
  
  
• True horror can be found Inside...
  By A1EGZYG8PC51U5 on 2008-04-20
  I suppose I'll start the praise mildly by saying that this is probably the greatest horror film of the new century(Session 9, High Tension, and The Descent being it's only real competition)... to which you reply, "horror since 2000 has been terrible anyway so big deal." Okay then, what if I said that this is one of the greatest horror films... ever? Got your attention now I bet! Inside is the latest in a line of French horror movies that have provided the goods(the aforementioned High Tension, Them, and the upcoming Frontiers are a few) that American directors should take note of(instead they're too busy searching out their next film to remake and slap a PG-13 rating on). The premise here is a simple yet incredibly intense one; a pregnant woman very near expectancy, alone on a rainy night, with a madwoman who will stop at nothing to take her unborn baby from her. The who, how, and why just add to the unrelenting experience... but not before the buckets of blood rain down! The gorehounds out there will be far from dissapointed, in fact, our lead suffers a brutal attack from a BIG pair of scissors to get the film rolling nicely... leaving a nasty looking gash across her mouth and face for the rest of the film. Nearly every moment of bloodshed pushes the envelope of not only "good taste" but also brutality(the way it should be). The icing on the cake comes in the form of excellent direction that provides tension as well as some really cool effects(most notably what they do with sound during the kills). Frightening, gory, and disturbing are all words that fit this movie perfectly, and in the recent horror genre don't find themselves being used as much as most of us would like them to be. Make no mistake, this is far from "fun" horror... there are no sly in-jokes or moments of levity... this is the scene from The Exorcist where Regen uses a crucifix to do the unthinkable to herself, just spread into an hour and a half. In other words, it's an instant classic that no horror fan should miss(and it gets Dimension Extreme off the hook for a lot of the trash that they have dropped on our laps prior). *VIEWERS BEWARE* I heard that the cut of the film that Blockbuster is renting out is edited down by an unbelievable 7 whole minutes so steer clear of that version!
  
  
• 3 ½ Stars: A Homage to True Classic Gorefests!
  By A2UUP58XPQW3GF on 2008-04-21
  INSIDE (2007) is a French horror-thriller directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury. I've read that these two directors were supposedly poised to direct the upcoming "Hellraiser" remake in 2009. I'm not quite sure as to why they are no longer on board for that project, and from what I've seen from this film, the two young filmmakers can definitely repulse even the most experienced movie watcher in the way "Inside" focuses in blood and gore. I have a very strong stomach and nothing bothers me; I can stand the most gruesome images and violence as long as there is emotional content. I have not seen a lot of French horror, but one thing I can say is that if this film is any indication, the French can make "Hostel" and the "Saw" franchise seem like a kid flick. It feels like a homage to the 70's and 80's exploitive gore flicks.
  
  Synopsis partially derived from the dvd back cover:
  Four months after a pregnant woman named Sarah loses her husband in a horrific car accident, she is visited on Christmas eve by a mysterious madwoman. Alone and desperate to save herself and her unborn child, Sarah fights to stay alive as each of her potential rescuers dies at the sadistic woman's hands.
  
  Extremely violent, bleak and brutal would be the best words to describe this film. The directors rely on violent imagery to totally immerse the viewer into intense thrills. Blood and gore are omnipresent throughout that gore fans will definitely have reason to celebrate. "Inside" definitely tries to push the limits of blood and violence, the subject is focused to give the viewer an uncomfortable sensation. I rather enjoy exploring those places, the dark thematic affairs that make most people turn away. This film may be great for what it is trying to do, but I personally found that it lacked an insightful vision to truly deliver pure effective suspense. It is a straight-forward gore flick that never lets up on the violent graphic details that it felt like a gore show.
  
  Sarah (Allison Paradis) is a woman with little known origins. All I knew about her from the start is that she is pregnant, a photographer, have just survived a car accident and has been widowed by the selfsame accident. Surely, a pregnant woman who had just gone through all these tragedies would automatically promote sympathy and empathy; especially when her one safe haven (her home) has been invaded by a maniacal woman (played by Beatrice Dalle). A pregnant woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown being held prisoner at her own home is truly disturbing and the filmmakers spare no attempts to make the audience feel her pain by visual brutal violence. All the violence that happens to Sarah happens on camera, and on that effect alone, I was more repulsed than impressed. "Inside" is a genre film, and to call it a horror thriller is an understatement; it is a sadistic motion picture. It expresses violence against women and what is more disturbing is that the violence is done by another woman. (and others)
  
  Just who is this unnamed woman and what does she want? This is where it gets interesting and quite frankly, the film's best asset. Beatrice Dalle's character is creepy, demented and truly enigmatic. Although in the first half of the film, she seemed to be a little too "cardboard" for me, quite a bit "uniformed" to be dressed in a black outfit with an unsettling feel. The woman is a "genre" character so the success of the villain is all a matter of tone and execution. Dalle's antagonistic character may be more at home with exploitation and highly stylized horror films. Thankfully, her links with Sarah's past may prove to be the film's biggest surprise and will leave folks in awe but it has been marred by a huge plot hole. There are actually some faults in the screenplay such as Sarah's bathroom door; the lock seemed too flimsy that the stalker shouldn't have any problems breaking it open.
  
  "Inside" is a film that expresses itself through its own bleakness. Unfortunately, suspense is almost none-existent as its tone and execution telegraphs the inevitability of its horrific outcome. The style is bleak, the cinematography is bleak, the film's set up itself is an exclamation point that the worst will happen, but you just have to root for the protagonist. It was the directors' intention; to promote automatic empathy for Sarah. Sadly, they overlooked its dramatic potential and they opted to settle for the use of violent imagery to generate sympathy. There are also some scenes that looked a little too stretched out that made them look like minor "fillers" to induce intensity. Actress Allison Paradis does an impressive performance as the character very much in pain and emotional collapse; while Beatrice Dalle's delivers a very creepy, frightening portrayal of our mystery woman .
  
  Overall, "Inside" is more successful as a "gorefest" than a great addition to horror-thrillers (this isn`t a bad thing). The film is an effective "gross-out" feature film that is sadistic, brutal and unrelenting in its execution of violence. If what the directors are looking for is to repulse and shock audiences then they succeed hands down. However, if you are looking for pure, unadulterated suspense that can really get under your skin in a different way, look somewhere else. Folks who enjoy onscreen excessive violence and gore will embrace this film, but sadly it barely made it for me. It had all the dramatic potential but the film just became a vehicle for grim, dark scenarios with a lot of mindless bloodshed. True, the twist at the climax that explains Dalle's behavior may add some "punch", but it feels like a throwaway detail because of the huge hole in the plot. It felt like a gimmick that takes a stab at the audience; "did you see that coming?"...I did, unfortunately.
  
  I do commend the filmmakers that they did have the guts to follow through its very bleak and violent execution; that they knew exactly what they wanted to do and they weren`t pretentious about it at all.
  
  Recommended timidly, rent it first. [3 ½ Stars]
  
  For contrasting opinions on the film, check out Dave K. and D. Wilson's reviews, they both have written excellent reviews of the film.
  Congratulations if you made it this far.
  
  
  
  
  
• I'm not a psychopath
  By A2K6DKERCFOCEN on 2008-03-27
  I'm really disturbed this sick movie got 5 stars from other viewers cause unless u are a psycko u can't get to love this movie except if u are only a gore-fan.
  This movie has a lot of gore and that's that. Now i'm a horror fan. Not a gore fan. I like more the plot stories the mystery, the suspense, the real horror movies which are not present gore as their main element.
  Gore does not scare me. IT MAKES ME SICK.
  
  
• What a way to demolish a rather promising movie!
  By A150QZUUQAN21X on 2008-07-27
  !!!WARNING! SPOILERS!!! This movie has got to have one of the most idiotic plots ever. It starts off great. Is quite good through the first 40 minutes or so (though too gory for my tastes). But the moment the cops arrive to check on the heroine, it begins to dreadfully go south. In the last 20 minutes it becomes so absurd and silly that I caught myself wondering whether I was watching a horror movie, or a horror spoof. I'm not a doctor, but I know quite a few, and I'm pretty sure that no one would survive 5 minutes (let alone walk around) after being stabbed with huge scissors in the bellybutton, poked in the throat with a stick, smacked in the head with a toaster, and generally speaking whomped and thrown about the way our heroine does during the course of this movie... While pregnant! No way in heck would an unborn baby survive everything its mother is put through in this film. A woman whose water has broken would be doubled over in debilitating pain every 5 to 3 minutes as her contractions worsen (that I know from personal experience). And didn't they have medical consultants on the set to teach them that C-sections are performed by cutting horizontally just above the mons pubis, not vertically up from the bellybutton? To top it all off, the way the cops behave is totally asinine. What would any cop do upon entering a place that looks like a slaughterhouse? He'd immediately call for back-up. Upon finding the suspect, he'd restrain her and search her. He'd NOT handcuff himself to the perp who's already in his car being brought in for questioning, and drag him along into the slaughterhouse. He'd NOT turn his back to allow the psycho to blow his brains out. He'd NOT leave a pregnant, bloodied victim on her own when the lights suddenly go out while he goes off to look for breaker box. Please, it's like watching retards play policemen! Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.
  
  
• it will go down as one of the best horror films of its era
  By A2OR09N5HH20PY on 2008-05-13
  it took a while to finally check this one out, despite all the hype, but im glad i finally did. in the relm of horror, this has it all. theres tons of suspence at times, while the killer stalks and sneeks. she has a very ghost-like presence, fading into the shadows. plenty of awsome kills, with a cringe worthy moment or two. they did a really good job on the blood and gore. i was wandering what all could really be done with a pair of scissors but.. ill just say she's creative. plus a couple other items are used throughout the movie.
  
  the acting was good all around, although the english dubbing could've had better voice actors in a couple spots. the camera work was good, helping add to the suspence and shadowy presence of the antagonist.
  
  there really isnt a lot of story here. you can get basically the whole plot minus the villains identity off the back of the case. the main character was in a car accident which killed her husband. now its christmas eve, shes about due to have her baby, and theres a stranger at the door. things are about to escalate far beyond what could've possibly her worst fears, and you are about to enter one of the most tense, bloodsoaked thrillrides of your life.
  
  Horror fans - watch it now! you wont be disappointed
  
  
• Bloody, gory and gruesome and good...
  By A284WUQS94AQ7A on 2008-09-22
  This 2007 French horror film, is surprisingly good. It has all the gore, but well done and with a good story line.
  
  Briefly, a pregnant photojournalist, Sarah, was involved in a horrible car accident that killed her husband. Four months later she is ready to deliver the child on Christmas Eve. Sarah wants to spend the final night by herself. A knock comes on the door and our "gap-toothed" villan appears in the shadows and mutters something about losing her daughter and seems to know a lot about Sarah. Sarah is frightened and calls the police. The police find no one outside and promise to send another patrol later that night. Our villan reappears and gains entry into Sarah's house. That's where the gore begins...
  
  I loved the use of sissors and knitting needles as a murder weapon for a female villan. The gore was unbelieveable!
  
  I also liked the camera make that Sarah used for her profession---a Canon EOS! That's my brand and what I've been shooting with for a few years. What bothered me about it was Sarah's was a film camera and this is a 2007 movie. Digital cameras were out for a while and photojournalists were among the first to have them. So to me it was unrealistic that she had an older camera. When she needed to enhance the photo of the "gap-toothed" villan, it could have been done easily with an up-to-date camera.
  
  The other thing that bothered me was the "zombie-like" scene towards the end---what was that about?
  
  All in all this was a good gore fest and one to start off October with.
  
  
• Brilliant!
  By A2BSQR0J4PJWUO on 2008-02-24
  Absolutely one of the best horror movies ever made. It's simple, smart and oh so gory. Perfectly lit, acted and directed this film is a modern classic of brutality in it's basic form. Definitely holds a place in my top 10.
  
  
• INCREDIBLE !!!
  By A1JZI3YT1DPDI4 on 2008-04-08
  I saw this movie for the first time on a screening.
  They came out to warn us before we go in that this movie is gory and the women in line laugh at the warning and said," yeah, we saw THE RING so we will be okay but thanks for the warning."
  30 minutes into the movie, women were running out of the cinema.
  The rest of the women who stayed in the cinema turned their head to the projection room throughout the rest of the movie.
  What an amazing and daring movie !!!!
  
  
• Inside: a Razor-Sharp French Splatterfest.
  By A3D9VXSUDX8J36 on 2008-04-16
  Inside (À l'intérieur) is a 2007 " grand-guignol" French gore film directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, starring Alysson Paradis (The Last Day), the equally-beautiful younger sister of chanteuse Vanessa Paradis (Johnny Depp's love interest), and mesmerizing Béatrice Dalle (best known for her performance in Betty Blue). Set in Paris during the 2005 riots, Paradis plays Sarah, a brooding pregnant woman, who loses her husband Matthieu in a car accident. Four months later, a mysterious woman (Dalle) dressed in black appears at Sarah's door on Christmas Eve to claim Sarah's unborn daughter by any means necessary before her induced delivery the next day. Wearing a sexy French corset, "La Femme" has come equipped with the largest pair of fabric shears in France, which become the point of conflict between the two women. In the same tradition as Aja's High Tension (2005), Gen's Frontier(s) (2007) and Them (a.k.a. Ils) (2006), horror "films de gore" do not get much gorier than this. (Eyes are gouged out, arteries are severed, heads are blown off, and genitals are sliced & diced.) If this film is hardcore crap, then it is five-star hardcore crap. Bustillo and Maury use every scare tactic imaginable in a film that leaves nothing to the imagination (several scenes are almost unbearable to watch). Inside will appeal to fans of gratuitous gore galore in the tradition of Herschell Gordon Lewis. This is possibly the goriest film I have ever experienced, and a horror film I won't soon forget.
  
  G. Merritt
  
  
• Shocking
  By A37OOQQLMMKYR8 on 2008-04-18
  There's a lot of hype surrounding Inside; people are praising this movie as an instant classic. Going into the movie I wasn't sure what to expect. Most of the time a movie with this much hype almost always fails to deliver. But with Inside this movie is well worth the hype and this will go down as one of the greats of the horror genre.
  
  Since 2000 I think there's been a lot of solid horror flicks and despite being in remake hell there are some solid horror flicks, but with that said there are also many problems with the horror genre. For those sick of the typical Hollywood horror film or the angry spirit movie and for those who want a no holds barred movie with extreme violence and not some watered down product, Inside is the movie for you. This is what the horror genre is all about and this is the type of movie Hollywood is far too afraid to produce. Right not France is red hot in the horror genre, and Inside is a movie that shows us why.
  
  Inside starts off a bit slow, but it's never boring. Though I couldn't help, but think it might be one of those movies with all hype and nothing else. But once the suspense kicks in never once does it let up. This is the type of movie that will have you on the edge of your seat until the very shocker of an ending. After you watch the movie the images will be burnt into your head and it's hard to shake.
  
  The screenplay by Alexandre Bustillo was overall quite solid; it's a straight-forward movie and overall quite simple, but very effective. While the characters aren't all that much developed in a movie like this they didn't have to be. The screenplay works well and is always mostly interesting.
  
  Directors Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury, deliver one of the most disturbing movies I have seen in ages. Their scenes are well paced and never lag. Inside is a great movie, but there's nothing really ground-breaking. But despite they very much deliver on the thrills and chills and also deliver on some brutal violence. Most of the movie takes place in a house and never once does it get boring. Bustillo and Maury always keep it interesting and eerie.
  
  What makes this work is you never know what will happen next; Sarah played by Alysson Paradis is pregnant and in most movies a character like her is never in danger due to PC Hollywood. But there is some graphic violence against her through out the movie. It's scenes like this that will shock you and you'll be wondering what the filmmakers will do next. Bustillo & Maury don't play it safe just when you think they won't go there they do. They take it one step further and when they do it really shakes things up and you have no idea what these guys will do in the next scene.
  
  Like I said the characters are all that developed, but in a movie like this they didn't have to be. The fact Sarah is pregnant really raises the stakes and makes her sympathetic right off the bat. Seeing what she goes through is just crazy. And seeing some of the violence against her is cringe worthy. This is something you won't see in American horror. Maybe back in the 70s or 80s, but you'll never see anything like this now.
  
  Beatrice Dalle who played La Femme is one of the scariest and most sadistic characters I have seen in a horror flick in quite sometime. Some people were complaining about a female villain. Well make no mistake woman or not she was damn creepy and easily rates as one of the most sadistic this genre has ever seen.
  
  A lot of people talk about how gory this movie is. Well it is quite gory, but not as much as it's being made out to be. It's just that Inside is so brutally violent that people over-do it with the gore level. This movie is quite extreme in the violence and while there is a whole lot of the red stuff to be found it's not as gory as people say it's just that it's so violent. I recommend this movie to any horror fan that wants something a little more extreme. Inside is a deeply shocking, disturbing and violent movie.
  
  Inside starts off slightly slow, but once it gets going it keeps you on the edge of your seat. The suspense and tension never once lags, it's violent and disturbing with a truly twisted ending. Bustillo & Maury push the envelope one step further than any horror film has done in recent memory.
  
  
• 5-Star Reviews = Viral Marketing for a stupid film..
  By A2J57EQ9KPGXR9 on 2008-05-19
  Inside is a tribute to the "Idiot Plot" - that is a plot that would'nt work unless everyone in the film is a halfwit. This bloody, pointless film is about a pregnant woman hunted by a crazy person in her home. She locks herself in the bathroom while the crazy person stabs at the bathroom door with a knife and screams.
  
  But then things get really stupid. The killer is a woman who weighs maybe 120 pounds - she kills four full-grown men! 2 of them are armed cops! One of the cops is in the house when the lights go out, so he goes into the basement to turn the lights back on! Yikes - now THAT'S stupid..
  
  Of course, none of the cops called for help when they were OUTSIDE and they noticed that something was wrong - double Yikes..
  
  Skip this mess.
  
  
• hello, this movie is organic.
  By A38R09L1ND57BV on 2008-03-10
  i absolutely loved this film. don't be afraid of the cheesy straight-to-video film company the dvd is being released by. this is actually a french film and the rights have obviously been picked up by dimension for an american distribution. i love how this film doesn't rely on an over-the-top storyline or crazy special effects. the plot is simple, yet it keeps you involved from the very first shot to the last. i haven't gasped this much since movies like high tension and the descent. i'm glad to see the foreigners still get to see the genre live, while us in america are slowly watching it die.
  
  
• SHE TAKES A LICKIN AND KEEPS ON TICKEN!!!
  By APQ8N1UKS1RDC on 2008-04-23
  This for 2000 and up is a very good HORROR movie...Though if you do
  not like GORE-or being grossed out stay away from this one....
  This is a 7 star movie on GORE level and a 1 and a half star on
  story and plot...IN nutshell you have a pregnant woman who has
  survived a terrible car crash but not her husband...Month's later
  she is told that the baby is fine and to get rest for her upcoming
  birth...We now are at her home and it is late in the evening we hear
  a doorbell and our star of the movie comes to the door to see who it
  is. She looks in the peephole and we see a shadowy figure of a girl
  (very fine direction I might add) The girl says some line about her
  losing her daughter(hmmmm?) And if she could use her telephone. Our
  star is smart and she is SPOOKED out by this person and politely says
  no...Well our bad woman does not take no for a answer and here is
  when the movie starts.....
  I now will point out the bad with the good is this movie..SPOILERS-SPOILERS-SPOILERS-SPOILERS-SPOLIERS
  THE BAD.....
  1.I myself was confused the way this movie was going? Was it suppose
  to take itself seriously or was I watching another DEAD/ALIVE & EVIL
  DEAD II(well the movie wants you to take it seriously and sometimes
  its hard too) Just read my title and that is what I mean
  
  2.If I saw the baby in the womb just ONE MORE TIME I would have
  put my foot through my T.V. That was annoying!
  
  3.Who is the cop turning back on the lights?????? We have ZOMBIES now????
  C'MON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  4.Found my self saying are you kidding more than once(NOT GOOD)
  
  5.New the story of the killer right off the bat(so no mystery for me)
  
  THE GOOD.......
  1.The two lead actors were VERY good in this(loved the gap-tooth villan)
  
  2.Loved the music in this(always a plus)
  
  3.Special F/X are fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  4.Found myself saying WOW! I can't believe they just did that more than once(VERY GOOD)
  
  5.Funtastic GORE-GORE-GORE and than some GORE!
  
  6.The directing was very good and had some creepiness to it which
  you seldom see in a GORE flick
  
  7.One of the top ten grossest movies of ALL time(yaheeeeee bub)
  
  So the good outweigh the bad. If you love ALL kinds of HORROR
  buy this...If your HORROR is more like THE OMEN & THE SHINING
  than stay away from this for you will be disappointed.
  I am proud I have it and it is right next to THE GIRL NEXT DOOR.
  I still feel JU-ON is my tops for 2000(the ghost girl coming down
  the stairs says it all for me) but I was very pleased with this
  thanks D.WILSON-DAVE K. & WOOPAK
  WATCH HORROR FILMS KEEP AMERICA STRONG
  
  
• Worst. Movie. Ever.
  By A2Q398FW4QR2ZV on 2008-05-20
  This movie was drek. I can't even begin to describe how awful it was. But, let's try...
  
  First, the english dubbing was rotten. The actors-- if one can call them that-- sounded so dry and monotone.
  
  The job of the director and actor is to make the audience feel compassion/sympathy/remorse for the hero/heroine. To make us care that the protagonist wins in the end. Thi movie did the opposite.
  
  At the beginning of the movie the protagonist is having a pre-natal examination by her doctor. She actually cops an attitude with him. Here is the man who will be ensuring the safety of her newborn and she gives him attitude. Her acting only gets worse after that. This supposed heroine annoyed me. I had NO feelings of wanting to see her win out in the end. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait for her to hopefully get killed!
  
  Now, let's talk about the Keystone Cops that show up to help her. All I have to say is that if these 3 cops are a shining example of the French Police Force then I am SO glad I live in the USA!
  
  WHO THE HECK TAKES AN ARRESTED SUSPECT INTO A VICTIM'S HOME?!?
  
  3 cops are taken out by a woman who had to have weighed 90 pounds at the most. What cop in his right mind-- knowing he has a killer in custody-- allows that same killer to reach up her sleeve for a knitting needle!?! And, even after being stabbed in the eye, his training should have kicked in and allowed him to at least put up some kind of struggle. Anyone ever hear of adrenaline?! The fight to survive?!
  
  These 3 cops make the cop from the Police Academy movies seem like military strategists.
  
  And, the victim was even more moronic. She has a chance to escape and she goes to bed WITH THE KILLER STILL IN THE HOUSE!!!! WTF?!?
  
  This movie only accomplished one thing: it re-affirmed the stereotype that French people are cowards and weak and can't take care of themselves. The director and producer and actors should be ashamed of themselves that the set back the French image so bad.
  
  If I owned a video store/store/Amazon/etc I would be ashamed and embarassed to allow anyone to see this movie. This movie should be destroyed. And, I'm nearly tempted to destroy the DVD right now and just pay Netflix/Amazon/rental store/etc the money that they would be out. If I can rid the world of at least one copy of this DVD it would be worth it.
  
  My girlfriend and I just wasted-- WASTED-- 1 hour and 19 minutes of our lives watching this drivel. That is 1 hour and 19 minutes of our lives that we can NEVER get back! And, the ONLY reason we kept watching was because it was like driving by a car crash. You knew what you would see would be horrendous, but you had to look anyway.
  
  This movie even set back good horror movies. It was nothing but a gore fest-- and not even that good-- involving people that were idiots. And, by that, I mean that if these people in this movie acted this way in real life they would be labeled as mentally-challenged.
  
  Save yourself the time and do NOT rent this movie. It would have been more pleasurable for my to pluck out my own eyeballs so I wouldn't have to watch this to begin with. Then pouring acid into my ears so I wouldn't have to listen to the even worse dialogue.
  
  I glance through the other reviews for this movie on this Site and I feel disgust that so many people have praised this movie. My hope for the future dwindles damatically for us as a society.
  
  
• THE GREATEST HORROR MOVIE TO RELEASE IN THE LAST 30 YEARS!!!!
  By A26PEFWHKUHN7O on 2008-05-22
  I know, I know,
  It's a really outrageous statement, but it's unbelievabley true,
  this is possibly the greatest horror movie ever made!!
  (Second only to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
  A scissor-wielding psychopath(?)
  (dressed as the wicked queen from Snow White)
  invades a pregnant widows home during the french riots, with the intention of stealing her unborn child.
  And she will kill ANYONE who gets in her way. ANY-freakin-ONE!!!
  But she's not a villian you hate,
  she is silent, queen of her element, but purposeful, pure poker from head to toes.
  By the end, you might actually like her, and feel for her.
  There's some corny CGI, but it doesn't deter from the horrific experience.
  More scares & atmosphere than the original "Halloween", (not an exaggeration in the slightest)
  as well as an arguably supernatural presence
  (which I don't personally buy, but I've heard it argued before.)
  and much more gore than "High Tension" but with a severely better ending.
  This flick is absolute perfection in every horrific way.
  It comes subtitled,
  but there is an option for English dubbing as well, for those who can't tolerate subtitles.
  
  MORAL OF THE STORY:
  BUY THIS MOVIE RIGHT NOW!!!!!
  
  
• Outstanding French horror film.
  By APCHVFMSQZVY4 on 2008-06-08
  I heard about how gory and violent this French horror film was but I had no idea what I was gonna expect while watching Inside and I thought it was absolutely brilliant, finally we get to see a horror flick that pushes the boundaries of onscreen violence and yet still turn out to be great. It is truly one of the most gruesome films I have ever seen, its so over the top that you'll feel shocked afterwards and its guaranteed to get under your skin, it seems like the French have once again triumphed in bringing us yet another gory masterpiece. First it started with High Tension and now we have this great horror/gore flick, both directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury use some great techniques to creep out the audience although there is lots of blood and gore in the film I think they managed to make it look stylish and it looks quite impressive, the special fx looked realistic and gory as hell its almost disturbing (how did they make the huge scissors look like it went through that guy's skull?) and not to mention the great cinematography that makes use of the low light in the house it has a European flair atmosphere, the film has come out more recently and it seems like France knows how to make a proper horror film unlike Hollywood where they usually like recycling the same idiotic ideas over and over again. I consider Inside to be one of my favorite modern horror films along with Frontiers. Sarah played by Alysson Paradis has just suffered through a car accident which killed her husband leaving her pregnant and lonely, four months later she leaves the hospital still feeling a bit depressed and she's one day away from her due date. She enters her house and soon enough she gets terrorised by this insane and psychotic woman who wants to kill her and take her baby, Sarah's maternal instincts start kicking in and she soon starts hiding and locking her self in the bathroom while this other woman starts brutally killing and slashing various people who enter the house including the police. Yep this was a very gory film so if your squeamish about these things then forget it but if your a gorehound then you'll love it, theres this one scene where a guy gets viciously stabbed in his crotch and theres lots of blood being sprayed all over the place yes very nice! its like watching a modern Lucio Fulci flick only with better acting and great production values. The premise might be simple and there were a few plotholes but the way the film was set up was fantastic, I must admit that it made me cringe a few times and I'm a hardcore horror fan. The story was pretty good and kept simple pregnant woman in peril fighting for her life and defending herself from this mysterious woman, as soon as the mysterious and psychotic woman's (Beatrice Dalle) intention is revealed you wouldn't care cause the bloody finale was quite shocking. It takes its inspiration from High Tension and is possibly one of the goriest films I've seen so far and it was absolutely brilliant, yes indeed we need more of these disturbing and shocking gore flicks just as long as they are nicely made like this one oh and make sure you get the unrated edition since there was another cut edition that was released so be careful, I highly recommend this to true horror fans.
  
  
• A horror film that actually delivers!
  By A23LA1XM5VRV32 on 2008-04-17
  Wow. I watch a lot of horror films and most of them are pretty boring or just terrible. This film is amazing. The most blood you'll ever see this side of Tarrantino. Beatrice Dalle is as cool as it gets. The gore is beautiful. Get rid of the stupid CGI baby and you have a perfect horror film. Watching this makes you think France is the country killing innocent people every day. This has the mean-spirited attack of Viet Nam- era horror films TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE or LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. Prepare yourself for a wonderfully greuling experience.
  
  
• Should I feel ashamed for rating this so high?
  By A393IHHU219MZT on 2008-04-18
  Wow. An intensely grotesque and horrific film. I LOVED IT. Great atmosphere, camera work, and GORE. Good lord, this movie lets it flow freely, from SEVERAL orifices. As real and as close and visceral as I ever want to get to an experience like this in real life, but as a work of art, it is well done by the first time directing team. Having seen a lot of different and violent films, I still found myself cringing during this one. Good stuff and bravo on the final product. Not for the squeamish needless to say...
  
  
• A Tough One to Call
  By AWKRTLXGSNRES on 2008-04-25
  This one was a close call for me. Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury's "Inside" has reached the stores for viewing and/or renting. First, I think readers should be forewarned that this movie is in French with English subtitles. I was not aware of that, and even though I don't have anything against subtitles, I just wasn't expecting that.
  
  The premise of the movie is Sarah (played by Alysson Paradis), who is a photographer, checks into the hospital on Christmas Eve and is told she can come back the next day and have her baby delivered. She goes home and is terrorized by an unknown woman (Beatrice Dalle)--hellbent on getting "inside." That's all I'm going to say about the movie's premise because I actually had it figured out in the first two minutes. It seems that the directors must have been a huge fan of Alexandre Aja's "Haute Tension" because, like that movie, the beginning gives away the ending.
  
  What follows after the woman gets inside is over-the-top gore. And I don't mean just a little; you are beaten over the head with every visceral image you can imagine: slashings, gougings, arterial blood spray, stabbings; you name it, it's in there. I have stated before that I have no problem with gore, if it is integral to the storyline. But seeing a 9-months pregnant female beaten in the stomach with a nightstick until she hemorrhages is not my idea of a good time. When it happens, the audience has already been through 65-plus minutes of nothing but carnage. There was simply no need for this.
  
  The movie itself is not bad. I found the acting very good, the effects very good, but I especially found the directors use of lighting and sound way above what is usually found in "direct-to" videos. I believe the directors certainly have talent. I just wish they'd understand that sometimes less is more.
  
  
• Impregnated with excessive gore and implausibility
  By A6DOCZ10B7JAJ on 2008-04-28
  Oh yeah, gore for gore's sake--you gotta love it!
  
  One warning though, you might feel a tad bit manipulated. You've got the lonely beautiful widow ready to give birth(on Christmas morning no less). Enter the evil ugly deranged psycho gap-toothed slasher lady. Forgettabout a nice newborn gift. She's got a pair of scissors, and she's ready to run with 'em.
  
  The violence and blood spewage does go way over-the-top with this one. That's a good thing. There are some plot holes, but the grisly blood and gore helps you disregard them. A beautiful blood bath for you dirty sick freaks out there.
  
  OTHER EXCESSIVE GORE RECOMMENDATIONS:
  
  In My Skin
  Schramm
  Splatter:Naked Blood
  Dead Alive
  Hostel 1 & 2
  Wizard of Gore
  Nekromantik 2
  Riki Oh
  The Beyond
  
  
• A gore hounds wet dream.
  By ADH5E2OE07PAQ on 2008-04-29
  After all the hype and being convinced to see this movie, I finally caved and decided to check it out. Now I don't think it's all that great because it's weak as hell on story and plot. Plus I didn't find it scary at all. But I'm not disappointed. It did exactly what it set out to do. Gross out the viewer with some brutal kill scenes. If there is one reason to see this movie it's for the over the top death. The gore is the only thing that kept me interested and I'm not a die hard gore person at all. If you live and die for the sake of gore. Then you owe it to yourself to check this out. It could be a fun ride.
  
  
• One of the Most Disturbing Horror Films in Years and I Loved It!
  By A34D4KCP94ACJZ on 2008-04-29
  Inside or À l'intérieur is a 2007 French horror film released in the United States just over a week ago. It is directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, who apparently were mentioned as possible directors for the Hellraiser remake. That would've been nice to see as Inside is definitely one of the scariest and most sick and twisted movies I've ever seen. I'm 31 years old and this movie actually gave me nightmares but I don't want to overrate the film as your typical bloodthirsty horror-movie goer may be distracted by the actors who mumble enough that you may actually have to read what they are saying (the film is in French of course). Also, the pace is unnerving and might require some patience from those who appreciate inferior gorefests. This is a very violent film and intentionally so, but it is so much more frightening to watch because it sets you up nicely with great context, writing, and acting. In other words, if a film was this quality and not a horror film I would still be praising it for these reasons, and fellow cinephiles anticipating good horror know exactly what I'm talking about. Well, this is the best horror film since Neil Marshall's 2005 film The Descent and perhaps maybe even Takashi Miike's 1999 film Audition. In other words, you really have to look all over the world for a good horror movie and the French deliver big on this one like they did with Aja's High Tension and the amazing Gaspar Noe film Irreversible.
  
  It is set on Christmas Eve during what appears to be the 2005 riots in France. I'm not sure those riots continued much into December but it appears to be the backdrop of the film. We follow pregnant Sarah (Alysson Paradis) after her boyfriend was killed in a car accident they both experienced months earlier. She is stalked by a mysterious woman played by Beatrice Dalle. Dalle is most famous for her performance in 37°2 le matin (Betty Blue to American audiences) over twenty years ago. She really is a great actress and brings out that fierce psychotic rage again for her role here. She is dressed in a long black Victorian gown that hides her well in the shadows and gives her a ghostly presence. This reminded me of some of those great horror films from the silent era and was very effectively used. It also reminded me of the Hellraiser villain Pinhead, which seemed to connect well with the directors' recent rumored involvement in that remake. Anyway, Dalle is frightening in this role and absolutely among the most vicious villains to appear onscreen in quite some time.
  
  Other than pushing the envelope in terms of gore, the influences here run deep. The suspense is effective and we are only gradually given hints about the villain's motives until the end. How far she will go to get what she wants is another thing we might question, and believe me you cannot even imagine how far she will go. There are moments at the end of this film that scared me to the point where I felt like looking away. Moments that rank up there with scenes from great horror films like Alien, Audition, Dawn of the Dead, Suspiria, or even the The Exorcist, among others. It is hard to write about a horror film I enjoy because I feel compelled to say so much more, but I don't want to give anything else away. Suffice to say, if you're not troubled by this film then you are missing out on the fun of watching great horror. Very highly recommended, but not for the squeamish.
  
  
• Amazing
  By AVKGSL756HM3I on 2008-04-06
  I watched this film online based on someone's recommendation. I love horror and this was the only movie I've ever seen that I watched through my fingers. If you really want to see a great horror movie - and you aren't completely disturbed by violence and gore...see this. The directors truly pushed the envelope and made a true horror film.
  
  
• Extremely Brutal(Thats being mild)
  By A1ZLSXGOJI2TTP on 2008-04-10
  This is an amazing movie from the gore to the plot. Must see for Gore fans and people who love to be shocked! Enjoy
  
  
• IT'S NOT SO PRETTY ON THE INSIDE.
  By A2X59HZHUVSZU1 on 2008-04-12
  WOW! Fans of Haute Tension, Them and Frontier(s) let out a scream of joy (or is it terror)! INSIDE is the most sickly violent film to find it's way to dvd in years! Light on seat cowering tension (i could be desensitized), yet heavy on mouth-agape ultra violence. INSIDE, is unforgettable and will play over and over in your head for days.
  The final scene is pure horror! You have been warned.
  
  

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