Sadly Over-hyped

Pretty Good

Great Film overall

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Inside, also known by the original title "ze French should neveur make horreur films" is one of the most evil movies ever made. I agree with the gentleman/woman who said that movies like this destroy our Western civilization. Every copy of this sick and twisted movie should be destroyed. There's nothing good about this movie at all. It's absolutely worthless. The people who made this are more talentless than Rob Zombie and Uwe Boll. They shouldn't be allowed to make movies. Not even commercials for McDonald's. They shouldn't even work AT McDonald's. They would probably put one half of a hamburger bun between two pieces of meat and call it Chicken McNuggets.Trivia break: the French version of Big Mac is called "Grand Grenouille" and contains 100% frog meat. "French Fries" is called "Pommes Frites", which means "Fried Pomeranians". It may sound barbaric, but McDonald's assures us that they only buy from organic farmers.How did this piece of merde get positive reviews? I think I know how, but the director would probably murder me if I told you. Don't waste your money on this garbage. Don't waste your time. If you see the DVD cover in the store, turn and look the other way. If you have the DVD, just flush it down the toilet.Trivia break: contrary to popular belief, Hercule Poirot isn't actually French. The actor playing Poirot (Jeremy Brett) is English! In the last episode, when Poirot finally meets his mortal enemy and father Blofeld, Brett's accent is slipping!If you want a good French movie, watch "The Three Musketeers" with Gene Kelly instead...just avoid the 1993 version, mr. Kelly prefers the one with Douglas Fairbanks. Or you could watch the fantastic "Judex" by Louis Feuillade. Anyway, zero stars.

It's always fun when a particular sub genre falls at your lap that you love and here is mine: Home Invasion. Why does this area of horror get to me?Probably because at its very core this is something we all fear; something that could easily happen to anyone at any point. The notion of our security and comfort being invaded is an unsettling idea and one that horror plays beautifully on.And better yet it poses a very real question: if your safe haven was invaded, what would you do to save yourself and those you love...?Whilst there are plenty I could have chosen and plenty I've yet to see, I was drawn back to one of the most disturbing films I've seen. To say À l'intérieur is an harrowing experience is actually to undercut how intense this film really is.Synopsis: Pregnant Sarah is involved in a car accident that kills her husband, a few months later on Christmas Eve she prepares for the festivities and arrival of her child when there is a knock on the door. But the woman on the other side doesn't want help she wants something else and she'll go to whatever lengths to get it...The beginning prelude with the crash and then the quiet aftermath is the perfect build up, the quiet swell; the serenity (of sorts) feels off. You can tell something isn't quite right and then...It has to be said Béatrice Dalle as La Femme is fantastic! Her unnerving calmness as she goes about systematically intruding on Sarah's life is thoroughly disturbing; the chill that permeates her scenes are as atmospherically creepy as it gets. Yet although this begins with an Hitchcockian feel once Femme manages to get past those walls, the change is palatable.The scene I still struggle to watch happens early on but is probably one of the simplest scenes to affect the viewer. Sarah in bed, Femme over her, the blade against her pregnant stomach... for anyone who is or as been this is an untimely reminder of how vulnerable we can be.The score by François-Eudes Chanfrault is outstanding, it sets a trembling beat that moves at a steady relentless pace adding tension at precisely the right points. The gore is shed in droves, it doesn't shy away from the bloodshed so if you're a gore hound this will easily suffice.And the ending... whilst this film is, in my opinion, the definition of an excellent home invasion it's the final that seals it. I'm a fan of both the happy ever after and the bleak yet for this it's the depressing nature that leaves an uncomfortable, unpleasant impression on the viewer. And makes this a film deserving of such status. If you have yet to see it, do so, this is horror simply put, at its finest.

After a long delay I decided to take a look at another title from The New Wave of France Horror.With having heard about the movie for ages,I decide that it was time to look inside.The plot:Driving home with her husband,Sarah and her unborn child get caught in a crash which kills her husband.4 months later:Christmas Eve: Spending Christmas Eve on her own,Sarah prepares herself to deliver the baby tomorrow.Getting set for an early night,Sarah hears a knock at the door.Checking the peephole,Sarah finds a women standing in the shadows saying that she needs to use the phone.Making up an excuse of her husband being asleep,Sarah is stopped in her tracks,when the stranger reveals that she knows Sarah's name,and also that she is pregnant with her dead husbands child. Threatening to ring the cops,Sarah soon finds out that the stranger is determined to get inside the house,and inside for Sarah's unborn child.View on the film:Locking Sarah and the handful of other characters down in the house,the screenplay by writers/directors Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury turn the house into a maze of dread,where every corner of the house reeks of a morbid atmosphere.Whilst the explanation for the attack does leave stretchmarks,the writers keep the tension tightly coiled,as the arrival of each new outsider leads to Sarah and the stranger taking more extreme measures in their battle.Covering every bit of Sarah's house in the New Wave of French Extreme Horror blood,the directors and cinematographer Laurent Barès give the film a wonderfully abrasive atmosphere,as each spilling of blood is joined by a chillingly stilted shot.Backed by a humming trance score from François-Eudes Chanfrault and pointed scissors editing by Baxter,the directors bask the title in an eerie supernatural atmosphere,as smog greens and yellows seep over the blood.Desperately trying to protect her unborn child, (shown in poorly done CGI) Alysson Paradis gives a great performance as Sarah,with Paradis pulling the horrified anguish across Sarah's face.Gliding round Sarah's house like a black widow, Béatrice Dalle gives an extremely creepy performance as the stranger,thanks to Dalle screeching out pig squeals with a devilish glee and keeping the strangers face stone cold,with no sign of humanity,as Sarah finds herself unable to stop the stranger from getting inside.

This is a movie about every mother's worst nightmare; the fear of having your baby taken from you. A relatively taboo subject, that get's tackled masterfully in this flick. I was thoroughly surprised at how intense and beautiful this movie was, given that it largely takes place inside a house. This film is disturbing, violent and bloody but it isn't without artistic value. This is extreme art house cinema, with lots of symbolism.The high- and low-key settings is used beautifully and really draws in the viewer and encourages you to think about what you see, while forcing you to concentrate about every scene. The colors are used so excellently, so subtlety and yet not so subtlety if you know about movie symbolism. It directly affects your mood and sets the tone perfectly, along with the intense and sad music. This is a movie, that makes you feel something that you don't want to feel, but that it reminds you, that you are alive. Even though I didn't understand a word they said (watched it without subtitles), I understood everything as it unfolded right before my eyes. That is no easy task to accomplish for a movie, spoken in a language you do not understand. After waiting many years to watch this film, simply because I thought the plot sounded incredibly generic, my only regret is that I can't unwatch it. Not that I thought it was too extreme, but simply because I haven't watched a movie yet that holds up to this amount of artistic value, and certainly not in the horror genre. I have watched a few art house cinema, but I thought they were boring. I have yet to watch any of the other movies from the New French Extremism, but I can't wait to get started. This is not a movie for the faint of heart or pregnant women. But if you like extreme, thought provoking horror and films, that isn't extreme just for the sake of controversy, then you're gonna love this. I will definitely buy this movie to add to my collection sometime soon.