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| Part No: | B00125WATQ |
| Manufacturer: | Genius Products (TVN) |
| MFG Part: | 81149 |
| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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Hailed by several critics as the first great French horror film this millennium,
Inside opens on a gory note and stays true to the bloodfest throughout. But rather than using splatter-gore for comedic effect, as did young directing team Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo's predecessor, Hershell Gordon-Lewis, this duo timed their gore to build tragic suspense, scene after disgusting scene. The strength of
Inside's plot is its simplicity, though the film is slow at first. Pregnant photojournalist, Sarah Scaragato (Alysson Paradis), has just lost her husband in a fatal car accident and is in recovery when her baby is due on Christmas Eve, in fact. Morose, she rejects friend and family visits, opting to stay home. A bewitched predator, played by Beatrice Dalle, senses Sarah's vulnerability and seizes upon it like a spider capturing prey in its web. The tale, woven around maternal psychosis, reveals Dalle's haunting preoccupation with stealing Scaragato's unborn baby. Each character who enters Sarah's house, the "war zone" as one doomed policeman puts it, encounters the wrath of two women fighting with mirror shards, knitting needles, scissors, hurled kitchen appliances, and even a homemade bayonette. Like the best horror thrillers about motherhood---
Rosemary's Baby,
Don't Look Now,
Alien---
Inside seizes ample symbolic opportunities to exhibit the primal obsession women have with babies. Even better,
Inside invites feminist critique as do other female-centric horror films such as
Ginger Snaps, whose plots not only include strong, vengeful female victims, but also sympathetic, criminal femme fatales. An entertaining "Making of
Inside" featurette follows, revealing makeup and special effects techniques.
Inside is for a specific audience; as scenes get redder and wetter, the squeamish may find it sickening---beware and enjoy. —
Trinie Dalton
Four months after pregnant Sara loses her husband in a horrific auto accident, she is visited on Christmas Eve by a mysterious madwoman. Alone and desperate to save her unborn child, Sara fights to stay alive as each of her potential rescuers die at the womans sadistic hands.
| INSIDE will turn your innards OUT! | 2008-08-31 | 5 / 5 |
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| I could only watch the first 31:13 minutes of this film. To that point, it was intensely suspenseful, atmospheric and creepy, marvelous setting for inpending mayhem. Afterwards, I'm told, it wins severed hands down, the award for the most use of blood and guts, ever. The five star rating comes from the reviews of family and friends who enjoyed it. It is subtitled, but even that won't deter you if you're a fan of 'slash then dash', 'cut then gut', horror. |
| She should have gone Outside | 2008-08-27 | 3 / 5 |
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Plot in a nutshell- The night before a very-pregnant woman is scheduled to have her baby delivered, she gets a strange visit. Terror insues.
Entertaining but Sick. Started off great (really great) then kind of runs out of steam near the end and just becomes an excuse for a lot of gore. Plot begins to run paper thin in the last half hour. I'd say if it wasn't for the pure stupidity of the french police officers, "Inside" would have been a much better movie. Either way its well worth a watch for any fan of gore.
*"Inside" is a French flick with options for English subtitles as well as English dubbing. (The dubbing was pretty crappy just to warn you.)
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| Hardcore and unsettling......... | 2008-08-24 | 4 / 5 |
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| This is a really good horror flick from France. Good acting, story and effects add it up for me. I watch a lot of horror and have a huge collection so it's not easy to unsettle me but this did a pretty good job. Definetly worth a look. |
| A French splatter/home-invasion horror flick that'll get INSIDE your brain, baby! | 2008-08-21 | 5 / 5 |
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This calls for another song, like in my "Machine Girl" review!!! This time, sing to the tune of "Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory":
My eyes have seen the glory of the gore inside "Inside"
Even though the jugs and booty they have thus chosen to hide
There's no nudity, but all the same, this flick has lots of gore
It has won over my heart.
(drum fill)
There's a pregnant babe alone on Christmas Eve and due next day
A gorgeous freak who wants to take her unborn child away
There is violence with scissors, guns and even a hair dryer
This film will blow your mind!
(another drum fill)
There's a car of cops who all get killed in a bloody, ol' display
And a criminal who also gets wasted before the dawn of day
The foxy murderer just won't give up, but you ask why?
She explains in the end.
(yet another drum fill)
The heroine is stuck covered in gore in her bathroom
The angel of her death attempts to open the door to doom
And in only 80 minutes, this film will knock you off your feet
This bloodbath's really neat.
Well, I hope you win the war that's fought between seeing this movie or not. I'm against the war, in fact, my Dad even protested Vietnam about a dozen times, so when it comes to "Inside", there should be no inner war as to see it or not! CHECK THIS MOVIE TODAY!!! Thanks for the time, and peace. |
| Another sick & gory ultraviolent terror flick from France! | 2008-08-16 | 5 / 5 |
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Some time ago I read in a German horror movie magazine about INSIDE (or A l'INTERIEUR in French). The reviewer commented how extreme and tough to watch this film was even for him as seasoned horror vet.
I have to agree with the reviewer in this magazine. INSIDE is unbelieveably sick and gory for a mainstream horror film.
Newspaper photographer Sarah is far advanced in pregnancy, but depressed nonetheless, as her husband was killed in a car crash some months ago. She is about to spend a lonely Christmas Eve at home, when a black clad woman threatens her. Sarah calls the police, who can find no trace of the female intruder. The cops leave and Sarah goes to sleep. Her nightmare is only just beginning, as the black clad intruder returns, hell bent to cut Sarah's baby out of her womb...
I will not go into more detail here, but only assure you that it is highly unlikely that you will get to watch an equally gory and disturbing film anytime soon. The movie is sooo sick it beggars belief. And I am an avid fan of horror and gore, of extreme movies of all kind.
The pregnancy of Sarah adds enormous to the unpleasantness. We even get to see the agony of the fetus in the womb! I have not seen something like that before!
And rarely have I seen such insane bloodshed in a film...
INSIDE is no cheapo direct-to-video trash, where rivers of blood should make up for basement production values and gross splatter special effects are laughable due to lack of funds.
No way. INSIDE is a decently budgeted film with top league actors. Beatrice DALLE who plays the vicous killer is an accomplished actress with starring credits in lots of arthouse movies. She may not be a household name in the United States, but DALLE is well known in Europe.
As for the final plot twist and the female killer's identity and motivation (I won't give it away, so don't worry!) I have to say that it did not really surprise me and I am sure that most viewers will expect something of its kind.
Cinematography and score are exceptional and add enormous to the grim athmosphere. The fact that almost the entire movie (except for the lethal car accident and a few scenes in the hospital at the beginning) takes place in Sarah's house (in just a couple of rooms to be precise) give a tense feeling of hopelessness. The close quarters are very cleverly utilized for maximum shock effect.
INSIDE also has some political subtext (if you will), as there are references to the recent mass riots; the cops who return to Sarah's house to check on her, come with an arrested rioter in tow.
Not just in this regard INSIDE reminds one of FRONTIER(S), the
other extreme French horror film (which also has a pregnant heroine!).
As for special features there is the trailer, which sells the film well, and a making-of. The latter runs about 50 minutes or so. I found it very interesting. Beatrice DALLE, Alysson PARADIS and other actors comment on their respective roles and the shot. Both DALLE and PARADIS come across as very likeable women, who had much fun during filming. Much attention is given to the special effects and how they were accomplished. Almost all of the F/X were physical (makeup, props, etc), thankfully there is very very little of the damned computer effects (just a CGI enhanced shot in the head).
This great terror movie comes with the highest recommendation. One last comment: If you like INSIDE, you have to check out the other recent French terror flick, FRONTIER(S) ! It is more conventional and slightly less gory than INSIDE, and while FRONTIER(S) is not exactly a feel good movie either it is not the relentless nihilistic descent into hell like INSIDE. (I still prefer FRONTIER(S).) Anyway, fans of extreme horror need both!
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