The French seem to be the only filmmakers lately producing quality horror films lately from HIGH TENSION to FRONTIERS and now to the INSIDE. Written by Alexandre Bustillo and directed by Bustillo and Julien Maury INSIDE is a claustrophobic thrill ride into terror from beginning to end. Sarah (Alysson Paradis) is depressed and trying to get over the death of her unborn child’s father, who died in a car accident leaving three people dead and only her as the lone survivor. She’s been aloft from everyone she knows and would just like to be left alone until her child is born. Then one night a woman (Beatrice Dalle) shows up on her doorstep.
The woman seems to know more about Sarah then at first glance and when the woman refuses to leave, Sarah finds herself trapped within her own home by the strange woman whom she soon discovers wants to steal her unborn baby. What follows is one of the most tense and disturbing psychological and gory horror films to come about all year.
The film works on many levels. Not only will the gore-hounds be satisfied with the bloodshed but the psychological battle between the two women is top rate and actors Dalle and Paradis are electrifying on screen. It’s a shame that this film didn’t get a theatrical release here in the states as it is one of the few films that truly deserved one.
INSIDE is testament that the horror genre is not dead even though it may seem so with all the remakes (i.e. ONE MISSED CALL, HALLOWEEN, THE EYE, and FRIDAY THE 13th), endless sequels (i.e. SAW, UNDERWORLD, and FINAL DESTINATION), and teen horror films (i.e. PROM NIGHT, HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLEY, and SHUTTER) that seem to populate the box office.
The woman seems to know more about Sarah then at first glance and when the woman refuses to leave, Sarah finds herself trapped within her own home by the strange woman whom she soon discovers wants to steal her unborn baby. What follows is one of the most tense and disturbing psychological and gory horror films to come about all year.
The film works on many levels. Not only will the gore-hounds be satisfied with the bloodshed but the psychological battle between the two women is top rate and actors Dalle and Paradis are electrifying on screen. It’s a shame that this film didn’t get a theatrical release here in the states as it is one of the few films that truly deserved one.
INSIDE is testament that the horror genre is not dead even though it may seem so with all the remakes (i.e. ONE MISSED CALL, HALLOWEEN, THE EYE, and FRIDAY THE 13th), endless sequels (i.e. SAW, UNDERWORLD, and FINAL DESTINATION), and teen horror films (i.e. PROM NIGHT, HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLEY, and SHUTTER) that seem to populate the box office.
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