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05-18-2008, 06:50 AM
INSIDE 2007
Alysson Paradis (Sarah), Beatrice Dalle (The Woman)
***POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW***
After losing her husband and nearly her baby in a terrible car accident, Sarah returns home after four months in the hospital. Expecting to give birth on Christmas Day, Sarah is visited Christmas Eve by a mysterious woman who just stares at her through the windows. She cannot make out who she is but it becomes quickly apparent that this homicidal female wants to get into the house. After notifying the police, they search around and find nothing. They tell her she should be safe for the night. However, the evil woman manages to get inside the house. Her purpose is quickly revealed--she wants the baby Sarah is carrying and is determined to kill anybody who comes into the house that may stop her from her horrific mission, the reason for this, as well as the identity of this psychopath isn't revealed until the final, disturbing moments.
Absolutely one of the most harrowing, disgusting and vile movies ever made. Words cannot describe how horrifyingly brutal this movie is. A complete and total nightmare of a movie that, once this viciously sadistic bitch gets in the house, the film never lets up and becomes an endless cavalcade of wall-to-wall gore interspersed with some truly nail-biting suspense. The final 15 minutes goes places horror films haven't been in YEARS. While there is a near non-stop avalanche of gore on display, the intense nature of the film accentuates these scenes unlike most all other gore movies.
Infanticide is the main order of the day here. The violence perpetrated on a pregnant woman is excruciating to watch and possibly the most extreme scenes of this kind of brutality I've seen. Throats are slit, eyes gouged out, brains pierced, a face is burned beyond recognition, animal violence, castration, exploding heads and the most vicious deaths by scissors ever put to screen. The killer, whose name you never learn, is about as close to a human TERMINATOR as you're going to get. Meticulously, and maliciously savaging anybody who happens to enter the house while the bloodied and mutilated Sarah has locked herself inside a bathroom. Even a group of police officers are cut down by this woman. The early scenes in which you see her have a Carpenteresque quality about them as she is seen in the background of a newly developed photograph or as a silhouette outside or a vague apparition slowly dissipating from a window behind the unknowing protagonist.
The directors have fashioned a sincere punch to the gut that never allows the viewer to get back up without being punched again with another wild set piece even more gruesome than the one before it. The final 10 minutes really pours on over the top violence and the vastly unsettling musical score only compounds the ferociousness of the movie. THE BEST horror film I've seen in a long time and easily the best one I've seen for the past two years. Not since CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST or, even more so, MEN BEHIND THE SUN have I considered shutting a film off before it was finished. The grim finale ensures you will be thinking about what you've seen long after the film is over.
Part of Dimension's Extreme label, they already put out the well done, wild and gory 70's throwback STORM WARNING and the CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST homage WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE, but INSIDE is truly deserving of this sub labels moniker. DEFINITELY and WHOLE HEARTEDLY not recommended to anyone who is pregnant or cannot take witness extreme violence towards children, or unborn babies in this case. An intense and supremely nasty experience.
Alysson Paradis (Sarah), Beatrice Dalle (The Woman)
***POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW***
After losing her husband and nearly her baby in a terrible car accident, Sarah returns home after four months in the hospital. Expecting to give birth on Christmas Day, Sarah is visited Christmas Eve by a mysterious woman who just stares at her through the windows. She cannot make out who she is but it becomes quickly apparent that this homicidal female wants to get into the house. After notifying the police, they search around and find nothing. They tell her she should be safe for the night. However, the evil woman manages to get inside the house. Her purpose is quickly revealed--she wants the baby Sarah is carrying and is determined to kill anybody who comes into the house that may stop her from her horrific mission, the reason for this, as well as the identity of this psychopath isn't revealed until the final, disturbing moments.
Absolutely one of the most harrowing, disgusting and vile movies ever made. Words cannot describe how horrifyingly brutal this movie is. A complete and total nightmare of a movie that, once this viciously sadistic bitch gets in the house, the film never lets up and becomes an endless cavalcade of wall-to-wall gore interspersed with some truly nail-biting suspense. The final 15 minutes goes places horror films haven't been in YEARS. While there is a near non-stop avalanche of gore on display, the intense nature of the film accentuates these scenes unlike most all other gore movies.
Infanticide is the main order of the day here. The violence perpetrated on a pregnant woman is excruciating to watch and possibly the most extreme scenes of this kind of brutality I've seen. Throats are slit, eyes gouged out, brains pierced, a face is burned beyond recognition, animal violence, castration, exploding heads and the most vicious deaths by scissors ever put to screen. The killer, whose name you never learn, is about as close to a human TERMINATOR as you're going to get. Meticulously, and maliciously savaging anybody who happens to enter the house while the bloodied and mutilated Sarah has locked herself inside a bathroom. Even a group of police officers are cut down by this woman. The early scenes in which you see her have a Carpenteresque quality about them as she is seen in the background of a newly developed photograph or as a silhouette outside or a vague apparition slowly dissipating from a window behind the unknowing protagonist.
The directors have fashioned a sincere punch to the gut that never allows the viewer to get back up without being punched again with another wild set piece even more gruesome than the one before it. The final 10 minutes really pours on over the top violence and the vastly unsettling musical score only compounds the ferociousness of the movie. THE BEST horror film I've seen in a long time and easily the best one I've seen for the past two years. Not since CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST or, even more so, MEN BEHIND THE SUN have I considered shutting a film off before it was finished. The grim finale ensures you will be thinking about what you've seen long after the film is over.
Part of Dimension's Extreme label, they already put out the well done, wild and gory 70's throwback STORM WARNING and the CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST homage WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE, but INSIDE is truly deserving of this sub labels moniker. DEFINITELY and WHOLE HEARTEDLY not recommended to anyone who is pregnant or cannot take witness extreme violence towards children, or unborn babies in this case. An intense and supremely nasty experience.