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Inside (Unrated) 
Actors : Beatrice Dalle, Alysson Paradis, Nathalie Roussel, François-Régis Marchasson, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin
Director : Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo
Studio : Genius Products (TVN)
by Genius Products (TVN)
Brand : WELLSPRING/GENIUS
Release Date : 2008-04-15
Publisher : Genius Products (TVN)
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 0796019811491
UPC : 796019811491
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 81 reviews)
List Price : $19.97
Our Price : $11.98
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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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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. |
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Getting Inside the Violence |
I saw this film because it's been recommended on various web sites. Here in the UK, the film has not been released in any form so far, which is a great shame.
This film totally rocks - it has violence and gore to the limit and a suspenseful, well thought-out storyline. I was very pleasantly surprised because being a bit of a gorehound (New York Ripper, Cannibal Holocaust, Aftermath etc.), most films that are meant to be 'disturbing' or 'gory' are neither - take Cabin Fever for instance, so much hype and yet the film was a big let-down. Not so with this French flick - it delivers, and then some. It's well made, very well acted and the violence is just the right tempo for the mood of the piece. Who ever thought that a pair of scissors could do so much damage?
If you're a gorehound or a horror fan, check this out - though make sure you get the unrated version, far more fun. |
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NOT SO SCARY!!!! |
I Watched this movie just last night
and I Don't get what the all the fuss about
sure this film's got lot's>>and Lot's
Bloody Scenes after a another but
it's Not That Scary at all!!!
I Think too much blood used in this film
makes people Uneasy.
I gave three star's Because
this is the first french horror film
I ever watched.and for is that concern.it's pretty good makeing
it's NOT so Scary but pretty good!!! |
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"Ain't 'cha even dead yet?!" |
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 quite 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. |
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Look Who's Stalking |
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 "À l'intérieur") 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. |
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Gruesome and Bloody - Perfect! |
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!
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