The Devil Inside

Director: William Brent Bell
Producers: Matthew Peterman, Morris Paulson, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Stephen Scheider
Writers: William Brent Bell, Matthew Peterman

Fernanda Andrade as Isabella Rossi
Simon Quarterman as Benji
Evan Helmuth as David
Suzan Crowley as Maria Rossi
Ionut Grama as Mike




This poster promo isn't the one that we had in Australia. At least, I never saw this one around. But I picked it for my blog because it's f***ing creepy as hell.
As is this movie. I wouldn't call this movie a 'shock horror', although there are couple of great jump scares in there. This movie gets into your skin and makes it crawl. It makes you truly question if what you are seeing is real, or imagination.

The story is basically about exorcism, and comes into a genre of "found footage" film, which seems to be coming a lot more popular these days. The story is set in Vatican city, Rome. Where a woman, Maria Rossi, is being treated in a mental health facility after she murders two nuns and a priest during an exorcism being performed on her. Twenty years later, her daughter, Isabella Rossi, travels to Rome in the hope of re-opening her mothers case, she believes her mother is possessed by a demon.  With the help of two exorcist priests, David and Benji, they proceed to evaluate and exorcise  Maria with devastating consequences for all present. These events are also being filmed by Documentary film maker Mike, who originally teamed up with Isabella to help her with her mothers case.

I throughly enjoyed this film. I've seen plot lines like this before, it's really nothing special. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad film. I did however find it a little difficult to watch,  as the film was shot to look like it was filmed on a hand-held camera. It was very jumpy and made me a little queasy. The acting was fantastic, which is needed for a film of this kind. The audience needs to believe that this is really happening to these people. Which sounds silly, but horror films are quite hard to get right. The ending was too abrupt, I don't feel like I was fulfilled. I was left stunned, and not in a good way. I kept saying "Is this it?" Other patrons around me where saying the same thing.

I do recommend this film, But do not expect anything unique. It's the same as what we've seen before. If you enjoyed "The Last Exorcism", "Cloverfield" or "Paranormal Activity" there's no doubt you'll enjoy this.

I'm giving it 4 stars.