{"id":11641,"date":"2008-05-14T19:01:39","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T23:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=11641"},"modified":"2008-05-14T19:01:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T23:01:39","slug":"inside-a-linterieur-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/inside-a-linterieur-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside (\u00c0 l'int\u00e9rieur) (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"inside\"<\/a>I don\u2019t think I can named a modern horror film that\u2019s come so close to classic Giallo as \u201cInside\u201d has, and I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll really want to if you didn\u2019t like \u201cInside.\u201d Frankly, it\u2019s one of the most vicious and cringe inducing horror thrillers made in years, and the fact it wasn\u2019t given even a limited theatrical release, fills me with a thousand frowns and dark sunsets. Having kids is tough. It\u2019s financially trying, stressful, and traumatizing. Especially when there\u2019s a psychotic unstoppable killer who wants to tear it out of your stomach. \u201cInside\u201d is a vicious slasher flick from minute one where we meet Sarah who has just had a car crash pretty much almost killing her baby, and that\u2019s only a small moment of the torture this unborn child experiences, when Sarah goes on vacation to mourn her dead husband.<\/p>\n

During Christmas night, La Femme appears at the door, knows who she is, and wants that belly bulge. Now it\u2019s a war of woman to woman as Sarah, only hours away from giving birth, has to fight for both her and her son\u2019s life as La Femme breaks into her home and begins wreaking bloody, gory, splatter house havoc on her and anyone who dares to interrupt the battle. Now my suspicion and worry for this was that Bustillo and Maury would try to pull a whammy over us with La Femme being the unborn child of Sarah, or her dead husband\u2019s lover, but thankfully there\u2019s no big twist beyond a reveal that\u2019s logical and rather tragic. Not only does it add a great does of depth to the initial crash that brought Sarah to her predicament, but it creates one of the most terrifying villains ever created with the marvelous performance of Beatrice Dalle, who is unforgiving and merciless in her pursuit to literally dissect Sarah and steal her unborn son.<\/p>\n

The directors don\u2019t just apply gratuitous violence for the sake of shocking us as US directors have attempted, but instead make this violence a plot element that exemplifies the lengths La Femme will go through to steal this baby. \u201cInside\u201d takes a short while to build up, but when it does, it\u2019s an orgy of blood and guts with La Femme destroying men and women alike who attempt to help Sarah and only fall under her blade. She is nearly unstoppable in her strategy and Sarah tries and fails at every turn to escape the wrath of La Femme. The directors present an incredible visual style turning this grizzly concept into a splatterific thriller that will surely make even the most pleasant gore hound cower in disgust. So focused are the directors on bringing La Femme\u2019s mission to a close, that they never appropriately close the film on a note that would seem coherent.<\/p>\n

I had no idea what was happening most of the time during the final confrontation with the women, nor did I understand what the zombie-like individual attacking Sarah was there for until someone explained what occurred and pulled the pieces together. Just the same, \u201cInside\u201d will prove very frustrating for viewers who will bear witness to some of the most inept characters ever created. When the light at the end of the tunnel is revealed in Sarah\u2019s boss and mother who interrogate La Femme, they fail to watch their backs and suffer the consequences. Why would you turn your back on a person you\u2019re sure is not supposed to be in your daughter\u2019s house in the first place? And when help finally arrives in the form of three police officers and one prisoner, I was shocked to see how idiotic they were in apprehending La Femme, and failing with bloody results to keep her bound and at a safe distance.<\/p>\n

While \u201cInside\u201d was a win for the most part, these large lapses in logic are so frustrating, they almost pulled me out of the narrative and suspense. Writer Bustillo also succeeds in presenting a graying shade of character motivations hardly ever posing La Femme and Sarah and opposite spectrums of good and evil, but he does wrack up the searing tension as Sarah and La Femme battle while trying not to kill the baby in its mom\u2019s stomach. \u201cInside\u201d features the most shocking and utterly disturbing final moments ever filmed, with a final shot so eerily beautiful, it\u2019s definitely worth more than a freaking DVD release. While it\u2019s not a masterpiece, it\u2019s definitely worth recommending. \u201cInside\u201d is a really good movie, just not a great one. The second half makes almost no sense, and the characters are too stupid to endure, but all in all, I\u2019d still say for a good scare, it\u2019s worth a viewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t think I can named a modern horror film that\u2019s come so close to classic Giallo as \u201cInside\u201d has, and I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll really want to if you didn\u2019t like \u201cInside.\u201d Frankly, it\u2019s one of the most vicious and cringe inducing horror thrillers made in years, and the fact it wasn\u2019t given even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[367,477,491,703,950,1087],"class_list":["post-11641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-i","tag-mystery","tag-slasher","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}