| Inside (Unrated) | 
 enlarge | Directors: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo
Actors: Beatrice Dalle, Alysson Paradis, Nathalie Roussel, Francois-regis Marchasson, Jean-baptiste Tabourin
Studio: Genius Products (TVN)
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  107 reviews
Sales Rank: 9322
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 90
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 81149
UPC: 796019811491
EAN: 0796019811491
ASIN: B00125WATQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: April 15, 2008
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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
Product Description
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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What's Going On "Inside"? November 21, 2008
I normally don't care to do reviews for movies, but I felt I needed to for this film. First off, I really wanted to give the film 5 stars, but 5 stars is a masterpiece, and while this film is very very close, a couple of stupid plot points keep it just shy from getting there.
Fair warning, this film is extremely gory, so not for the squeemish at all. I must say I enjoy watching a movie that actually lives up to its reputation. The overall plot is excuted well, with little room for wasted moments. Both actresses are phenomenal, and you as you watch you can't help identify with each of them at one time or another as they are both suffering from tremendous loss, which is an amazing feat considering the brutality being executed on screen.
My only complaints are those annoying little things that hold this back from being a masterpiece. Most things I can explain away myself, i.e., the cops stupidity is probably due to the exhaustion they are experienceing from combating the ongoing riots. That bathroom lock is just the best on the market, even if the door itself doesn't seem to be more than paper thin. And sometimes, that soft spot on your skull just never seems to go away, especially if it is in the front.
Again these are just little things that take you out of the movie for a moment, but don't diminish the overall effect of the film. The french know how to make intelligent, engaging, blood drenched,and original horror films. I'm looking forward to the Hellraiser remake now.
 The more hype a French horror film gets... November 20, 2008
Inside (Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, 2007)
It has seemed to me ever since the terrible Haute Tension scored an American theatrical release that the quality of any French horror film is in inverse proportion to the amount of hype it receives on this side of the pond. I've yet to find an exception to the rule from the past five years. As no French horror film in that time aside from Haute Tension has received as much hype as Inside, I pretty much knew what I was getting going in. It did not disappoint.
Plot: Sarah (The Last Day's Alysson Paradis--yes, she's Vanessa's sister) is awaiting the birth of her baby while grieving the loss of her boyfriend in a car accident. It's Christmas Eve, and she'll be headed for the hospital to deliver her child the next day. Rather than go out and celebrate, however, she decides to spend a quiet evening at home. Not a good idea, as it turns out she's being stalked by a mysterious woman (Beatrice Dalle, probably best known on this side of the pond for Night on Earth) who seems to have murderous designs on her, for reasons unknown. When the woman, who is unnamed throughout the film, tries to get into the house, Sarah calls the police, and the woman vanishes-- until they leave, when she breaks in and tries to kill Sarah, who flees to the bathroom and locks herself in. From there, it's your typical home-invasion thriller (think Panic Room and the like).
One of my problems with a lot of horror movies recently has been their episodic feel, which seems to stem from a lack of pacing in the script; the scriptwriter comes up with a pretty good idea, gets to the end of it ten or twenty minutes in, and has no idea what else to do, so they tack something else on. I can't remember a recent film that gave me this impression more than did Inside. All of the pieces that the film had set up in its first ten minutes were over and done with after forty, less than halfway through the film; the rest is simply a tiring exercise in how long they can drag out their tired formula before culminating the film with a climax so over-the-top gruesome that it raises hilarity rather than disgust. We're treated to set-piece after set-piece of Sarah and the unnamed assailant trying to get one over on each other, people showing up and said assailant having to talk her way out of a jam before dispatching the intruder, etc. And while in the space of eighty-three minutes this could only really have happened a finite number of times, it just seemed to be endless repetition while I was actually sitting through it. And then comes the Big Reveal, followed closely by the climax, and well, I guess it's okay if you're into that sort of thing (which I usually am, viz., say, Baby Blood) and if you're okay with the general badness of the rest of the film (which I am definitely not). If you're simply looking for a gore film, there are many, many better choices than this one. *
 Lives Up to the Hype November 19, 2008
Ever since "Inside" first hit the DVD shelves, I've heard people praising it's originality, it's suspense and most of all it's gore content. I wasn't sure if I would enjoy a "French" horror film after sitting through "High Tension" (which was fantastic, except for the ending which made no sense).
As someone who isn't too keen on reading subtitles, I hesitated in watching "Inside" for that reason as well. But based on some high recommendations from the good folks found on the horror forum here at Amazon I finally broke down and picked up this DVD.
WOW! It more than lived up to the hype. "Inside" is a truly great horror film. The suspense is top notch, the acting is fantastic, and the gore effects are disturbingly realistic. No need to worry about too much CGI in this flick.
The basic story is that one woman is pregnant, and another woman wants the baby....by any means necessary. That's it. No odd psychological twists, no cheap scares, motives are clearly defined for the characters actions, and best of all, it's an "adult" horror film. Not meaning it laced with tons of sex or nudity, but that the subject matter is written for adults, not the teen audience so commonly aimed for with the horror genre.
If you want a truly disturbing horror flick, one that will stick with you long after the closing credits, then be sure to pick up "Inside" right away.....make sure you see this version before the inevitable American Remake hits the theaters.
The cover says it all November 12, 2008
This one is ghastly indeed.As one reviewer states{Have you ever heard of adoption lady?)This is something a normal person would do,right?There is the issue of the ladies revenge,giving them the reason to make this twisted sick masterpiece of horror. The emotions run high.The acting was really great. Made me want to look away in the one scene(You know the one)but still,I just had to take it in.If you want horror that disturbs and entertains.Then Inside surely will deliver. DVD has both orginal french language and english audio dubbed feature along with english subtitles.
One of the Most Gripping Horror Movies October 30, 2008
This movie takes you where no horror movie has ever gone before. It's beyond scary. One of the darkest, most disturbing, most taboo-breaking of this genre. And I've seen a lot of them.
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