Inside (Unrated Edition)
by Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo
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Actor: Alysson Paradis, Beatrice Dalle, François-Régis Marchasson, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin, Nathalie RousselDirector: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Brand: Genius
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Genius Products (TVN)
Movie Reviews of Inside (Unrated Edition)
Movie Review: One of the Most Disturbing Horror Films in Years and I Loved It!
Summary: 5 Stars
Inside or À l'intérieur is a 2007 French horror film released in the United States just over a week ago. It is directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, who apparently were mentioned as possible directors for the Hellraiser remake. That would've been nice to see as Inside is definitely one of the scariest and most sick and twisted movies I've ever seen. I'm 31 years old and this movie actually gave me nightmares but I don't want to overrate the film as your typical bloodthirsty horror-movie goer may be distracted by the actors who mumble enough that you may actually have to read what they are saying (the film is in French of course). Also, the pace is unnerving and might require some patience from those who appreciate inferior gorefests. This is a very violent film and intentionally so, but it is so much more frightening to watch because it sets you up nicely with great context, writing, and acting. In other words, if a film was this quality and not a horror film I would still be praising it for these reasons, and fellow cinephiles anticipating good horror know exactly what I'm talking about. Well, this is the best horror film since Neil Marshall's 2005 film The Descent and perhaps maybe even Takashi Miike's 1999 film Audition. In other words, you really have to look all over the world for a good horror movie and the French deliver big on this one like they did with Aja's High Tension and the amazing Gaspar Noe film Irreversible.
It is set on Christmas Eve during what appears to be the 2005 riots in France. I'm not sure those riots continued much into December but it appears to be the backdrop of the film. We follow pregnant Sarah (Alysson Paradis) after her boyfriend was killed in a car accident they both experienced months earlier. She is stalked by a mysterious woman played by Beatrice Dalle. Dalle is most famous for her performance in 37°2 le matin (Betty Blue to American audiences) over twenty years ago. She really is a great actress and brings out that fierce psychotic rage again for her role here. She is dressed in a long black Victorian gown that hides her well in the shadows and gives her a ghostly presence. This reminded me of some of those great horror films from the silent era and was very effectively used. It also reminded me of the Hellraiser villain Pinhead, which seemed to connect well with the directors' recent rumored involvement in that remake. Anyway, Dalle is frightening in this role and absolutely among the most vicious villains to appear onscreen in quite some time.
Other than pushing the envelope in terms of gore, the influences here run deep. The suspense is effective and we are only gradually given hints about the villain's motives until the end. How far she will go to get what she wants is another thing we might question, and believe me you cannot even imagine how far she will go. There are moments at the end of this film that scared me to the point where I felt like looking away. Moments that rank up there with scenes from great horror films like Alien, Audition, Dawn of the Dead, Suspiria, or even the The Exorcist, among others. It is hard to write about a horror film I enjoy because I feel compelled to say so much more, but I don't want to give anything else away. Suffice to say, if you're not troubled by this film then you are missing out on the fun of watching great horror. Very highly recommended, but not for the squeamish.
Summary of Inside (Unrated Edition)
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
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