À l'intérieur

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with gloomy footage of night-time Dublin and a female radio DJ talking about three girls who recently went missing in the city centre. While in a pawnshop a young man (Eoin Macken) pawns his ring for cash, offered €50 he demands €200, and eventually accepts €75 and a second hand camcorder. He discovers a tape still inside, sits in a cafe, plays back the footage on the camera and watches the film.
In the footage, a group of girls; Sienna (Kellie Blaise), Cara (Tereza Srbova), Louise (Vanessa Fahy) and Sian (Natalia Kostrzewa) are heading out for the 21st birthday of Corina (Siobhan Cullen). As a gift, Sienna and Cara have bought Corina a video camera, with which they plan to record the evening's events. They blindfold Corina and instead of going to a club they break into an disused, abandoned and ramshackled warehouse on a secluded back street, much to Sian's disapproval. Once there, they start drinking, Corina's boyfriend Barry (Sean Stewart) arrives, and they reminisce and share secrets. After Barry leads Sian to a toilet, the remaining girls complain and back-stab about Sian. Louise then takes the camera and discovers Barry having sex with Sian.
Then three vagrant, violent men; Eamo (Brian Fortune), Scat (Karl Argue) and Hughie (Emmett Scanlan) break in and gatecrash the party. They terrorise, verbally torment, abuse, and physically and sexually assault the women, and the women scream and wail in fear and despair. Sienna tries to confront them only to be head-butted by Hughie. When Barry tries to intervene, Hughie beats him to death and instigates a game of spin the bottle to rape the women. Whilst Sian is being raped by Eamo, the lights go out, odd sounds emanate from the building, old televisions switch themselves on and a baby's haunting cries are heard. Moments later, Eamo is yanked from Sian by an unseen force, quickly followed by Sian herself.
The negative energy from the brutality of the vagrants awakens a dormant, malevolent, demonic, supernatural force with a thirst for flesh and souls within the building. A brave Cara and hysterical Louise take the camcorder around the building, and try and escape using the narrow beam of the camera's built-in light via the labyrinthine, brick basements with decrepit corridors. They are approached by a Scat who is hysterical about something he has seen and begs them not to leave him alone. After shutting the door behind him, they find a dead Corina with her eyes gouged out. They then notice arches and ominous, arcane symbols and shapes signs on the walls in the dark. Louise enters a trance and is approached by a shambling, ghoulish, gore-covered, malign, emaciated naked figure (Patrick Moynan).
A distressed Cara runs away and finds Sienna, they continue trying to find a way out from room to room but are trapped in the building. They are found by Hughie and shortly followed by The Creature. They break through a door leaving them behind, Sienna picks another lock, then Cara also enters a trance and is taken by The Creature. Sienna runs off through decrepit brick basements to a catacomb in an effort to evade The Creature, she discovers a dead workman and hides from The Creature before being followed and stalked by it, she then runs back, escapes from the warehouse and abandons the camcorder.
After finishing watching the video, The Man uses the footage as a guide to retrace the steps to where the events occurred. The man tracks down the warehouse and makes his way into the basement. He walks into the aftermath and finds Sian and Louise. Sian cries for help as The Creature approaches, The Man tells her to be quiet and hides, she is then attacked and consumed by The Creature. After The Creature leaves, The Man then tries to rescue Louise, but while in a hypnotic trance she hits him over the head with a stone, escapes from the warehouse and is hit by a car.

Tags: suspenseful, cult, revenge, murder, violence

Review:
French horror seems to be all the rage among fellow genre fans these days, but where films like Haute Tension and Martyrs succeed at being more than envelope-pushing for the sheer hell of it, Inside fails miserably.I'm a fan of Béatrice Dalle.
Add to that a great twist that leads up to an ending that is one of the creepiest endings ever, a couple of very emotional moments that are tear jerking, a great musical score, haunting and gorgeous cinematography, and some brilliantly done gore, and you have one of the greatest French horror movies ever made..
Of course I have seen films like MARTYRS, FRONTIER(S) and JACK KETCHUM'S THE GIRL NEXT DOOR but I have to say INSIDE was in a class by itself in terms of the ending, it was so bloody and violent I had trouble wrapping my head around what I just saw.At first I wanted to hate the film and kick myself for buying it but later on I couldn't stop thinking about it, especially about the ending, very few films have had that effect on me, so in the end I thought maybe it was a good film, because I can't even remember the last film that had this particular effect on me, so I'll go ahead and say among all the graphic violence and all the intense moments there was actually a very unique experience.If I could give good advice to all male horror fans, don't think of this as the ideal date movie, it might cause a few problems in your relationship..
You know you're watching something terrible, but you can't look away for curiosity's sake.Many interesting details in the movie, such as the victim's house number, black cats and overall a feeling of dread and death.
Not that I thought it was too extreme, but simply because I haven't watched a movie yet that holds up to this amount of artistic value, and certainly not in the horror genre.
Sure, you're left with questions that the movie will not answer, but it has no reason to because the plot really turns out to be very thin.More bad stuff include scene after scene where we continue to see a bad CGI of a baby being shifted around with silly emotions, bumbling idiot police & a completely ridiculous scene with one of the cops who does something unbelievably stupid with his captive & another REALLY weird scene with a circuit breaker which even the directors didn't know wtf was going on.
I do love my gory flicks, but why this movie tries to aim for something more serious when it's clearly just a mediocre gratuitous gore movie and why it's critically praised by some as the second coming of all horror films is beyond me..
A pregnant woman is subject to extreme terror, we witness the effect of physical torture from inside the womb, the infamous Parisian riots are mentioned numerous times (including the typical reactions of the police) and there definitely isn't a happy ending.
All the attempts of people (her mother, employer and police patrol car) wanting to help Sarah result in unspeakable bloodbaths.This would of course be an ideal film to raise another debate about morals and the entertainment value of explicit horror movies.
By uncomfortable I don't mean torture porn or crap like The Strangers, but the violence on some ends will make you say "OH my god!!!" and on others just make you cringe....Please, any person who claims to be a fan of the horror or even action genre, see this movie immediately.....the final frame will haunt you for weeks, because you will truly know what a movie monster is.
In the end, this is a gore-fest, and at that the creators succeeded in spades.I can't recommend this to anyone looking for an involving story or the kind of suspense that demands that you lose yourself in the film, but if you're looking for an 82 minute ride through a great looking charnel house, you could do a lot worse..
If nothing else, this fact makes the movie feel like a film-school experiment concerning make-up effects.Now watching the last shot, I can't deny, at this level, the visual experience does to some degree substitute for the lack of script.
With all the gore, the seas of blood, the perfectly composed lighting and shots, the agonizing atmosphere and generally the direction itself the movie has a certain poesy about it, which probably was the directors goal.Verdict.If you are a rather sensitive person, the visceral stimulation might blow your mind and you won't care too much about a plot all together.
It never lets up and creates that never ending sense of doom throughout the entire film.Europe, particularly France has got the knack for creating horror films that are actually scary and yes a little excessive but they succeed in creating scares.If you are pregnant or have a weak stomach, this ride is not for you!!!.
It actually had me feeling sick and that, my friends, is a rare and fine achievement when it comes to movie making.After a fatal car accident, in which her boyfriend dies, the highly pregnant Sarah is left by herself, spending her first Christmas alone with her unborn baby.
At some point you'll just retreat into the "It's only a movie"-safety zone, as the good old "The Last House On The Left"-tagline suggested.However, the ending is so iconic and disturbing, it will stay in your heads for days afterwards and go down in horror history.
I just finished watching and had to come and actually make an IMDb account for the sole purpose of giving this movie a 1 out of 10 (wish I could rate lower than that).Almost every scene in this film is illogical.
Taking a page from similar French film (and horror gem) High Tension, Inside stars Alysson Paradis as a pregnant woman struggling to survive her last night of pregnancy as a mysterious woman stalks her in her own home.I'll give credit to the director for having the balls to create a movie like this, but this doesn't mean it was good movie.
The stupidity of the decisions of the characters just can be toped by the stupidity of the storyline.The main idea was not bad and some kind of original but the storyline stop really early in the movie and just left a big interrogation mark.For Horror Fans who don't want any logic or storyline, the movie could be great, because it is very brutal and show different sides of brutality.But the movie is much too worst if you are looking for something else than JUST brutality..
They repeatedly make idiotic decisions.If you enjoyed the Hostel series, or Human Centipede, then there is a very good chance you will also like this film.For the rest of us, the movie starts off looking promising.
This movie would have looked dumb in the 80s - today it's an insult.The film comes with high praise, what with it being part of a new french horror wave or so.
I could quite easily go on, especially if I wasn't attempting to write a review free of spoilers (not that much ever comes as a surprise in a film like this...) but it would seem that if you are reading reviews like this you have probably already figured out what you are going to do, and this becoming a rant would serve little purpose.This is a film that appears to have wanted to actually try, but in the end it gets completely lost and loses everything (however little that may be) that it had built up.
Horror movies like this are very hard on the stomach and have no real entertainment value since you feel guilty watching such a sadistic display of violence.
Undeniably it's got a nasty edge to it, but first time feature film directors Bustillo and Maury have an eye for stylish visuals, whilst infusing their story with some genuine narrative surprises.It's also great to have an aura of freshness by way of the psychotic perpetrator being female, with Dalle's La Femme proving to be one of the best human villains of horror in modern times.
Bonus, too, is that her victim, Sarah (Paradiso), is a most resourceful lady, making rational decisions as the horror begins to submerge her, her will to survive nicely drawn by the makers who keep her away from being the stereotype that's so often seen in films of this ilk.There's a couple of missteps, including one quite daft passage of play involving a policeman that almost derails the good work achieved by the picture up to that point.
During the bloody night of terror, the woman attacks Sarah's visitors and discloses to Sarah who she is and what she wants."À l'Intérieur" is one of the most brutal and gore low-budget movies that I have ever seen, comparable to "The Descent".
I began to watch this film in my home, I was expecting that 'Single White Female' kind of thriller, and actually I was impressed with so much gore (which I wasn't expecting).The main actresses are great, they did a great job, I will admit that the 'evil' woman was very frightening, I was afraid sometimes.Plot: Still grieving over her recently deceased boyfriend, a pregnant woman becomes haunted by a mysterious woman.
If you want suspense, there's a lot better than this.It's not a matter of me being smarter than the characters by the way, it's just simple frustration as everyone does stupid things for no apparent reason.If this is the "New Wave of French Horror" then I'll be first in line to wave it adieu.Cheers, Will.
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 that 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 woman comes knocking on Sarah's door, tries to force her way in & seeks to take her unborn baby.Solidly directed, smartly crafted, nicely written, finely edited, fairly photographed & calmly scored, Inside expertly manages to create a discomforting atmosphere of tension & suspense which steadily amplifies over the course of its runtime and, with the help of its arced narrative plus really good performances from Alysson Paradis & Beatrice Dalle, is able to justify its high amount of gore to quite an extent.On an overall scale, with its pool of blood & mutilation of endless bodies, Inside is an absolutely merciless, downright disturbing & emotionally scarring cinematic experience that breaks all barriers, taboos & morals to succeed as a highly effective, suspenseful & genre-defining cinema.
For example the mystery lady has no trouble at all in dispatching a number of armed policemen but she can't seem to nail the women she's come for, who's injured and pregnant and I would have thought an easy target.The scene with the swearing/smoking nurse says a lot, from just that scene alone you know your watching a french film.I think the end credits say it all for me.
À l'intérieur is like the Halloween version of an inverse 'Home Alone'.So while this film of French origin may offer momentous intrigue and persistent tension for gore addicts, it is far from an intelligent horror film, as character development, logic and plot twists are alien to it.
this movie is one of the best horror films I've recently watch and i will definitely no forget it never have i seen such a sadistic and graphic display of bloody violence, mayhem, brutality, insanity and gruesome gore, this movie goes way over the top and by the end you will be staring at the staring at the screen with an uncomfortable laugh at the sick and twisted series of events you just witnessed onsreen, yes the movie is a bit scary but it is more about extreme bloodshed and violence than anything else it becomes soooo bloody insane, and gruesome that it is not really realistic and actually in a struggle between funny and shocking.
that being said this movie should not be missed it will shock you as you attempt to understand the bloody mayhem you are witnessing and the suspense is extreme, plus this movie makes hostel, saw and others seem like a Disney cartoon so if you want a strong horror movie definitely look here as this was a strange, bloody and pleasing viewing..
It's a French horror film about a pregnant widow named Sarah (played by Alysson Paradis) who is home alone on Christmas Eve, preparing to deliver her baby the following day.
a woman tries to break into her house and she's very demanding then later after all hell breaks loose the pregnant chick is sooo STUPID she prolly hasn't seen too many horror movies before,she's so DUMB!she can't kick her in the cooter,elbow her FACE!
I assume it must have been the gore that got them excited but the film itself it's full of idiot decisions which one might argue that happen in many horror movies but let's face it you don't have introduce some incredibly stupid characters who act in the exact opposite way any normal being would, in order to to make a good movie like The Descent or The Orphanage.
It all boils down to a fittingly nasty conclusion and while this is certainly not a movie that can be enjoyed by all; it makes most "gore porn" flicks released recently look like Saturday morning kids TV and no true horror fan will want to miss this experience.
The film's plot revolves around a pregnant woman who,through circumstances of her own creation,becomes the victim of a female stalker."Inside" is easily one of the bloodiest,most brutal and savage assaults on the viewer's mind I have ever seen.It starts like a downbeat thriller and soon turns into incredibly tense bloodbath.Beatrice Dalle of "Trouble Every Day" fame is spectacular as the remorseless female psychopath.The gore is truly extreme and plentiful and one can almost feel an acrid smell of death in the air.Bustillo and Maury make the pregnant woman and her baby the target of the violence which is perhaps the most controversial aspect of the film.If you enjoyed "Haute Tension" you can't go wrong with even nastier "Inside".9 out of 10..
So many horror movies think that blood and gore are the scariest things about life.
This movie could have been history's best horror movie ever made.The actors where great, the house was creepy and scary,good acting and well directing.But there is only one thing that made me GET SO Disappointed...i AM a 100% horror fan..that loves every movie and trys to see the good side of them.There is so SO SO SO MUCH Unnecessary GORE IN THIS MOVIE.This movie could have been so good and interesting but the director is one twisted sh*t.I don't understand how the f**k did this movie get 7.1.OMG this movie should have gotten O or worse.What type of people are we if we call a good movie...when someone is torturing and ripping out a baby WITH SCISSORS from the ALIVE..AND AWAKE MOTHER.WHAT TYPE OF F***ING DISTURBED PEOPLE ARE YOU.IF you really are that creeped out go see snuff movies but at least snuff movies don't torture PREGNATE WOMAN AND KILLS THEM.PLEASE IF YOU ARE A NORMAL PERSON JUST AVOID THIS MOVIE..IT IS NOT WORTH IT TO SEE THIS MOVIE.IF YOU WANT TO SEE A GOOD GORE MOVIE SEE THE SAW SERIES THOSE ARE GOOD..
One can argue about the stupid actions of some of the characters and that the filmmakers relied solely on gore to shock the audience until the cows come home, but that doesn't change the fact that this is an impeccably directed, strongly acted, and brutally disturbing piece of modern horror that is certainly heads and shoulders above anything horror that has appeared in American theaters in quite some time.Taking its premise from an seemingly ever growing brutal type of crime, "Inside" deals with a pregnant young woman named Sarah who is home alone on Christmas Eve. Months before, she was in a terrible car accident that killed her husband and left her emotionally broken.
"Inside", directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julian Maury, is such a film.The story concerns Sarah (Alysson Paradis), a pregnant woman who gets in a car crash during the film's opening scene (which leaves her husband dead).
As the film progresses, you find out who the psycho woman is and why she is doing what she's doing, in a satisfying twist.While a gore-hound within me wants to focus on the blood and the guts of the movie, there's plenty else here to like.
But there's an reason why this woman does show up to see Sarah and scaring the hell out of her in this very long night.Directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury made an extremely well made Horror film that has some originality and some unexpected genuinely disturbing shocking moments.
Overall "Inside" is a good horror movie, which you like it or not.
Inside (2007) ** (out of 4) Yet another incredibly ugly horror film from France with this one centering on Sarah (Alysson Paradis), a woman expecting her first child who loses her husband in a car wreck.
if you are going to make a horror/suspense/gore flick that wants to be taken seriously, like this one obviously does, first of all you need believable characters that the viewers can take seriously.