Inside
 | UnratedDirected by Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo Starring: Beatrice Dalle, Alysson Paradis, Nathalie Roussel, François-Régis Marchasson, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin Genius Products (TVN), 2007, DVD Customer Rating: 109 reviews Recommend |
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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.
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
Title: Inside (Unrated)
Sales Rank: 4258 in DVD
Actor: Beatrice Dalle, Alysson Paradis, Nathalie Roussel, François-Régis Marchasson, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin
Director: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo
Studio: Genius Products (TVN), 2008-04-15, Theatrical Release: 2007
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Acpect Ratio 1.66:1
Languages: French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed)
Audience Rating: Unrated
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 90 minutes
Item Dimensions: 1 pounds
Package Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches, 0.2 pounds
- Excellent. Very well done. Not to be missed.
- The movie is gory and awesome. Terrifying gore fest. Don't watch if your pregnant. All my friends borrowed this movie and loved it.… More reviews
- Wow that was insane!!!!
- Now I don't know about you, but when I put this movie into my dvd player, I didn't think I was going to freak out! I'm pretty good at handling horror movies, but with something like this, I was not ready at all. The plot was amazing and whenever the protagonist was hit in the stomach I jumped back. I personally don't… More reviews
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- I normally don't care to do reviews for movies, but I felt I needed to for this film. First off, I really wanted to give the film 5 stars, but 5 stars is a masterpiece, and while this film is very very close, a couple of stupid plot points keep it just shy from getting there.
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- The more hype a French horror film gets...
- Inside (Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, 2007)
It has seemed to me ever since the terrible Haute Tension scored an American theatrical release that the quality of any French horror film is in inverse proportion to the amount of hype it receives on this side of the pond. I've yet to find an exception to the rule from the past five years. As no French… More reviews
- Lives Up to the Hype
- Ever since "Inside" first hit the DVD shelves, I've heard people praising it's originality, it's suspense and most of all it's gore content. I wasn't sure if I would enjoy a "French" horror film after sitting through "High Tension" (which was fantastic, except for the ending which made no sense).
As someone who isn't too… More reviews
