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Inside

2007 ‘À l'intérieur’ Directed by Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury

Terror comes calling.

Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.

Béatrice Dalle Alysson Paradis Nathalie Roussel François-Régis Marchasson Jean-Baptiste Tabourin Dominique Frot Claude Lulé Hyam Zeytoun Tahar Rahim Emmanuel Guez Ludovic Berthillot Emmanuel Lanzi Nicolas Duvauchelle Aymen Saïdi

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Review by Grooveman ★★★★★ 22

Fuck!!!!! Kinda like a remake of Home Alone but instead of Macaulay Culkin you have a pregnant chick and instead of Chris Columbus it's directed by Satan.
Review by CinemaClown ★★★★ 8

A genuinely effective & relentlessly violent feature to come out from the new wave of French horror and certainly ranking amongst the most disturbing & bloodiest films ever made, Inside is a prime example of extreme cinema which marks the return of pure unadulterated horror on the silver screen & manages to accomplish all the things it promises without entirely discarding the core elements that makes a film work.

Opening with a brief prologue covering a car accident, the story of Inside concerns a young pregnant lady named Sarah; the sole survivor of the car crash which killed her husband. Deciding to stay at home on Christmas Eve, things are set in motion for an eventful night of torment & terror when a mysterious…
Review by bree1981 ★★★★★ 2

Hoop-Tober 2.0 Film # 31
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Fucking hell!! This was one palm sweatingly intense 80 minutes, I've no idea how it's taken me so long to watch this, I've seen most of the other French horror films that came out around the same time and the dvd has sat on my self for years now but for some reason I've never watched it until now.
A visceral assault that hooks you in after the first minute and keeps you one the edge of your seat until the credits role, brutal and unflinching in it's portrayal of violence, there were times I was literally shielding my eyes from the terror of what was unfolding on the screen.
Alysson Paradis stars as…
Review by DirkH ★★½ 7

The first 45 minutes or so of Inside border on horror perfection. Without delving too deep into a backstory, we are presented with a simple yet extremely horrific premise. Had they managed to maintain that level this could perhaps have been one of the best genre films ever, but unfortunately I was left staring at the ugly afterbirth of a third act making everything that went before it a distant memory.

The opening is tense and very disconcerting. We're not given much in the way of character development, but who cares. There's a pregnant woman and an insane Beatrice Dalle trying to get to the baby she's carrying. That's an automatic investment right there. I was totally gripped by the…
Review by Naughty ★★★★★ 11

I dunno if this was a movie or the recipe for blood sausage!

We've seen it in the headlines! Woman kills a pregnant woman and steals the unborn baby! This film brings such a scenario to life and it is a truly traumatizing experience!

Extreme cinema at it finest! Relentless! Brutally Graphic! A film that shows no mercy to the mom-to-be nor its audience! An unflinching depiction of unimaginable horror that is so shocking I strongly recommend that pregnant women avoid this like the plague! I thank my lucky stars this wasn't around when I was pregnant, at that time I was however a bit freaked out by the film It's Alive!

The ferocity of the life and death struggle…
Review by Mr. DuLac ★★ 3

Who are you?
-Sarah

I love horror movies but every now and then I'll come across a film that got rave reviews and it just doesn't click with me. It happens most often with modern horror films. Here we are at that point once again with my latest attempt at watching one from the new wave of extreme French horror.

The debut of writer/directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury is actually quite impressive and some parts brilliant. The first act of the film could be used as a step by step guide on how to build atmosphere and suspense in a modern horror film. There's lots of subtle frights along with disturbing imagery.

The major hook of the film is…

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Review by pitchShifter ★★

Ugh. This movie is frustratingly bad.

First, the good things. There were some REALLY well-done creepy scenes early to midway in the movie. The violence in this movie was also intense and in your face -- it freaked me out.

Now the issues.

One thing that irritated me was that the world was super against the main character. Seriously, you find out this woman lost her husband (not a spoiler, it's in the description) and then the crazy stuff happens in the movie. But that isn't exactly what irritated me. What irritated me was how one-sided everything was. Just when you know things are going to be okay, it rips it out from under you in the most irrational way…
Review by veganvampire ★★★½

French films and their gore. Me and my love of French horror. Sarah and that baby could take a beating though. The connection between Sarah and the intruder was a bit easy and obvious though.
Review by Stephen Andrew Martin ★★ 2

Hooptober 4s most disturbing entry so far.

Wtf?! Who dreamed this torture porn up?

I didn’t enjoy this. I never enjoy these types of horror movies. It’s well made. That’s about all I can come up with that’s positive.

It’s really gross.
Review by Jacob and Tab ★★★★½ 1

I know I drop superlatives like they’re vowels, but good lord is this one of the best horror flicks I’ve seen in a long time. Seriously, it’s amazingly well made and worth a watch. However, there is real darkness there and some really messed up imagery.

La Femme is a phenomenal villain. She is frighteningly intense and has a whole layer of depth that forces empathy into your heart. The ending is heart wrenching and if you can make it through the feature length brutal assault, this ending will haunt you.
Review by ZombiEater ★★★

I liked the gore, the intense scenes, and the finale, no, I loved the finale and the final shot in particular.
But the there's isn't much to the film, and a lot of the already short run-time is wasted on repetitive scenes, and there were some stupid decisions made.
Overall enjoyed it a lot.
Review by Chris Hutcheson ★★★★½

This films holds up like a champ to repeat viewings, but I have to dock it half a star for the totally unnecessary CGI baby-cam shots. I'm sure they seemed like a good idea at the time, but it's the one thing that takes you out of this blood drenched roller-coaster of a film.
Review by Number13 ★★★½

Gory and scary in a realistic way which makes it all the more uncomfortable. Short and one dimensional. If you need a quick fix on sick and disturbing, it'll do.
Review by Grooveman ★★★★★

So seeing as it's Friday the 13th in October I thought I'd go extreme and do a double feature of Angst and Inside. These are two mucho fucked up foreign horror films that clock in at about 85 minutes a piece which definitely are "all killer no filler" type films. Emphasis on the "Killer".
Review by joshasmiles ★★★

Bloody, uncomfortable, and kind of dumb. The movie has a strong beginning, but quickly loses itself amongst the blood and body count.

It compromises its sinister premise for gross out gore (I definitely looked away) and cartoon violence. If the villain was a duck, it would’ve readjusted it’s beak and wiped away the soot from the acme bomb before announcing “This means war.”