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The Devil Inside

Release Date 16 Mar 2012 16 Aug 2012

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Certificate: 15

Genre: Thriller | Suspense

In Italy, a woman becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism.

Cast:
Fernanda Andrade | Simon Quarterman | Evan Helmuth | Ionut Grama | Suzan Crowley | Bonnie Morgan

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Directors:
William Brent Bell

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THE DEVIL INSIDE (USA/16/87mins)

Directed by William Brent Bell. Starring Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth, Suzan Crowley, Ionut Grama, Bonnie Morgan, Brian Johnson, D.T. Carney.

THE PLOT: The action opens in 1989, Italy, and emergency services are called out to a crazed woman (Crowley), who has just brutally murdered three fellow members of her church group. Two decades later, the woman’s daughter, Isabella (Andrade) heads to Italy with a videographer in tow, determined to find out how and why her mother ended up in the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane. There to hold her hand are two ordained priests (Quarterman and Helmuth), ready to expel any demons who might surface…

THE VERDICT: When it comes to mainstream horror, it really doesn’t matter whether or not you come up with something original. In fact, it’s probably wiser, for the most part, to give people exactly what they expect – so there never truly frightened. And certainly The Devil Inside is a moc-doc horror flick we’ve seen quite a few times before, most recently thanks to the superior 2010 offering The Last Exorcism. All the scares here are pure ghost train stuff, the only true screams coming from the film’s producers, when The Devil Inside opened to $34m in the US, setting a record for early January releases there. RATING: 2/5

Review by Paul Byrne 

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    • Currently 3/5 Stars.

    Jennyburke102

    Ok not the best horror ever made ...but there where a couple of scary scenes ...I also watched this two nights after watching Paranormal Activity 3 ...this was 100 times better ....maybe its because I heard it was SO BAD I actually expected nothing from it and happened to be pleasantly surprised ....I wouldnt rush out to see it but tis a good date movie!!

    • Currently 1/5 Stars.

    masonica

    Proves that Hell exists and has a run time of 90 mins. Beyond awful and can evoke strong feelings of anger. In a word; Crap.

    • Currently 2/5 Stars.

    Onionhead

    Gentle reader, be prepared for a shock."The Devil Inside" is pure fiction. I know about the advertising campaign and that it's supposed to be based on a true story, but it's not. It has a screenwriter, director and everything, even professional actors.

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    filmbuff2011

    The Exorcist set a high standard for films about exorcism and could be regarded as the benchmark against which all similar films should be regarded. At the opposite end of the scale, we have The Devil Inside. It's a strong contender for not only the worst film of the year, but also the worst horror film of the year. It's an abomination in every sense of the word. Its set-up is that of a faux documentary set in Rome rather than a found-footage film. A young woman engages two rogue Roman Catholic priests to investigate her mother's apparent possession, in the hope of understanding a terrible crime her mother committed 20 years earlier. Cue lots of very amateurish acting, some ropey restraints on victims, a ridiculous amount of writhing/screaming/twisting and an ending that is frankly insulting to the intelligence. Memo to exorcists: driving a car while performing an exorcism is never advisable. Whatever possessed the filmmakers to make this film or even think it was worth releasing is beyond me.

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    mart

    The less said about THAT ending, the better. But as a brief, brutal and nasty vignette showing the naked weirdness of an "authentic" exorcism, it's not sooo bad

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