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Movie Review: "Ain't 'cha even dead yet?!"
Summary: 4 Stars
Inside A I'nterieur, is a ghastly modern French horror film of the slasher suspense genre. In the more standard films of this kind, there is generally a slow build up as to what the villain might be capable of doing. First, there is the warning signs of their "off" behavior. Fallowed by the destruction of inanimate objects, and possibly the murder of Fluffy, the house pet. It is only after a good hour of screen time, when this arch of drama plays out, that we as film patrons get the reward we have been waiting for in this type of story telling. That is when the villain carries out their mission with singleness of purpose, and inflicts harm to actual living breathing human beings before they themselves meet with the iron clad hand of justice. In many ways, Inside still adheres to some of the basic formula to this type of suspense driven story telling. Only in this case, Inside is more like Single White Female on acid. Inside is the very definition of sadistic cinema, so anyone who can't stand the heat better get out of the fire ASAP.
Double your trouble with double mint dreams.
Sarah, played by Alysson Paradis A.K.A., the aunt of Johnny Depp's kids, is a woman who lost her husband in a very bloody car wreck, which she herself survived. Now fully pregnant and waiting out her final days before she goes into labor with her dearly departed husbands baby, she has two very unpleasant dreams back to back. The first starts off like it was lifted from the film Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. While rubbing her distended swollen belly in depressed boredom, her dead husband comes up behind her and joins in on all the caressing, which lovingly leads to a bit of necking. This is fallowed by the sudden jolting image of her husbands head smashing into the windshield, causing Sarah to snap out of her delusion. A moment later Sarah nods off on the couch, only to awake in a coughing frenzy. Suddenly she falls onto all fours and begins vomiting up huge sprays of milk. Then in her agony and turmoil, she manages to fall onto her back and barf up her unborn baby right out of her mouth. She snaps awake this time to the sound of someone knocking on her door. It is at this point in the film that anyone with any common sense in them will have a good understanding of the level of gore and carnage they are bound to witness if they continue to watch this film. In that way, these dreams are pretty much saying " You've been warned!"
"Will the real Beatrice Dalle please stand up!"
The knock on the door comes at roughly the 20 minute point in the film, and it is none other then the sadistic villain of the film known simply as La Femme. La Femme is played by Beatrice Dalle, an actress who once beat up a meter maid in Paris for daring to ticket her parked car. Beatrice Dalle plays a woman who is, in many ways, beyond mortality. In that she is beyond reason and normal human emotions. Added to this, her whole presence is nothing short of monk like. Cloaked in what seems to be a black bell sleeved ninja robe, she stands and moves with a decisive rigid posture, that is far too severe and driven to be in any way normal. Once in Sarah's house, she fishes for the proper implement to carry out her acts of carnage with the surgical precision of her black gloved hands. While up close, she does nothing to alleviate ones distress of her otherworldy presence, in that her very face is enough to give one a lifetime suply of the "hebe jebe's". La Femme has a twisted cruel mouth with big fleshy red lips, containing oversized serrated teeth, that are marked by a huge gap between the front two. She also has an abnormally tall forhead, that peaks out of her parted sleek black hair like a marble shard. She has a near cro-magnon brow which itself drops steeply into deep eye sockets containing steely hard dark eyes. Had this sinister creation been the work of make up artist, it would of been an act of pure brilliance for that department, but as it turns out, This is nothing more then Beatrice Dalle's actual real face. Hell, she is so hideously scary to look at, that I think I might of fallen in love with her. But seriously, if it wasn't for her performance and ultimately her presence in the film, it would not have stood out like it did. No amount of bleak atmosphere or gore, could ever supply the amount of hard edginess that Beatrice Dalle brought to this film. Making the film makers lesson here an obvios one. If you want to make a film that is driven by the brutal acts of carnage of a sadistic mastermind psychotic, then before you do anything else, get yourself a sadistic mastermind psychotic that will make the audience members gnaw their fingers right off.
Sharon Tate is a whimp compaired to Alysson Paradis's Sarah!
To speak plainly, never in the history of cinema has a pregnant character had to suffer so much abuse without surcoming to the laws of death. Fallowing is a list of most of the injuries inflicted on poor Sarah during her brief encounter with Beatrice Dalle...I left out one particular infliction while shuffling the order of the others, in order to avoid spoiling the film.
1) Cuts up her hands using a knife shaped shard of mirror as a weapon and digging tool.
2) Is pulled so savagely by her hair that a sizable handful is yanked out.
3) Gets bashed in the face and head with a toaster that was swung by its cord.
4) Has her water brake on her inducing labor in her attempt to escape from Beatrice Dalle.
5) Gets slashed across both lips by the cutting edge of a pair of scissors leaving a five inch long tear across her face.
6) Cold cocked in the face so hard and unexpectedly that she is slammed into the floor.
7) Has a good one inch of meat above her belly button cut open with the same pair of scissors that were used to slice her face.
8) Is drug across a room by her hair, hit in the face twice and tossed roughly to the floor of the kitchen.
9) Has her face bruitally stomped on twice while already laying on the ground.
10) Has the afor mentioned pair of scissors impaled through her left hand, sticking it to the wall like a beetle in someones bug collection.
11) Is beaten so hard in her pregnant belly by a police baton wielding lobotomized and deranged cop that her birth fluids spill out all over the floor, causing her to slip in the puddle and go flying neck first against the kitchen cabinets.
...And now for my personal favorite...
12) Ruptures her own throat with a knitting needle in an attempt to kill herself, but decides that she wants to live so she duct tapes the bleeding geyser that was her neck on the fly.
I could go into all the emotional torment that Sarah suffers in her one hour of screen time with Beatrice Dalle, especially since Sarah's every rescuer gets grotesquely destroyed by this sadist. From accidentally stabbing her own mother in the throat, to having a cops head get blown off in her face in a shower of splatter, Sarah suffers as much mental distress as she does physical injury. The point here is, that all this brutality goes too far. What gets compromised by all the blood shed is the believability that this could actually really happen. I am not stupid, I do understand that this film is catering itself sylistically, into an endless progression of outdoing its last shock, but such devices come with inherent flaws attached. Had this film not made me utter sentences in disbeliefe like "Good God woman! Ain't 'cha even dead yet?!"
I wouldn't be here stressing the importance of of doing all you can to not make someone have to suspend their beliefe. Because I am now Beatrice Dalle's newest number one fan after this fair, I would of given this film five stars in a heart beat had it just remained believable all the way through. This to me is the overall flaw of this movie, sadly it came darn close, but just wasn't quit a cigar.
Nonetheless, it is still a solid bit of sadistic horror entertainment that I can recomment in good conscious to anyone with a soft spot for the sick and unusual. Four stars.
Movie Review: Look Who's Stalking
Summary: 4 Stars
It's hard to avoid a horror movie with hype these days. In an age where a successful horror film is either a remake, rated PG-13 or dubbed "torture-porn," we're all a little starved. We all pray for the next classic film to take horror in a new direction and out of the slump it's been in for the better part of the decade. "Inside" (or "? l'int?rieur") is an award winning French film, directed by newcomers Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, released here in the states by Dimension home video and if the hype is to be believed, it's the best horror film of the new millennium.
Is that true? Well, no. The film is great, but it's not nearly as scary as the reviews imply, but then again, what movie is? To use a better term, this is possibly one of the most unsettling movies in it's genre, especially given the plot. A pregnant woman, days away from birth who lost her husband in an unfortunate automobile accident four months prior, finds herself alone on Christmas eve and being stalked by a mysterious dark haired woman. What this woman wants at first is unclear, but she stops at no length to ensure that our main character is isolated by dispatching any would-be saviors in some rather grisly ways. Horror movies and pregnancies are always a match made in Hell. Whether it's "Rosemary's Baby" or "Alien," it's always a horrible concept that is likely to crawl up anyone's skin. "Inside" has an edge where most movie's don't, as our lead is completely alone, trapped and helpless at her most vulnerable at the mercy of a seemingly unrelenting attacker. From the get-go, you feel for her situation and things only get worse as the movie progresses. To say the gore in this movie is over-the-top would be an overstatement, but this is surely one of the most violent and gruesome movies that has come along in recent memory. As new directors, Bustillo and Maury inject a heavy amount of style and intensity into the film. Under diffferent direction, this movie might not have worked as well as it did. Surely, this is a pair to look out for in the future.
The ending leaves a bit open to the imagination, but one thing is for sure: you'll walk away feeling something. As someone who watches a lot of horror, I can certainly say this one caught me by surprise. It's refreshing to know that in this day and age there can be a horror film that manages to have a lasting effect on you. Horror fans will also appreciate references to two classics: "Halloween" and "Psycho," obviously massive influences on the making of this film. "Inside" is not exactly for the weak of stomach, and surely, like an amusement park ride, if you are pregnant, I would avoid this ride. It might not be all that you expect it to be, but as far as new horror goes, this one is destined to be a classic.
Movie Review: Gruesome and Bloody - Perfect!
Summary: 5 Stars
Perfect and Gory Movie! Absolutely scary!!!
One of the best movies i've ever seen after "High Tension"
This is the limit of Horror! Perfect!
Movie Review: Don't believe the hype.
Summary: 1 Stars
I read all these glowing reviews and immediately pulled out this movie and watched it. Wow what a waste of time, this movie was so sub par I just can't believe all the positive reviews for it. Low budget / limited locations doesnt have to be this bad (see [REC] for example)Movie Review: Blew some breath into a half dead genre
Summary: 5 Stars
I got to admit that i'm one those out there who feels the horror genre is more than half dead. Thanks to good gory kill fest like this. i'm actually interested again. This movie delivers on just about everything except for story. Weak on story but who cares? Romero's latest frisbie is weak on every damn thing. if you want some real horror, Inside is the realest i seen in some time.