My Rating: 1.0/5.0
Many horror films nowadays center around CGI and gore, and some, I’ll say, are done very well. But then there’s the scary movies that just plummet straight to the ground. Terrible acting, mixed up plot, or a dumb ending. Some movies, just simply aren’t frightening enough to even be contained in the horror genre itself. All of these descriptions are straightforward factors contributing to what a bad horror flick can be considered, and also simply stating what “The Devil Inside” was. A god-awful movie that is lucky to get four stars on IMDb.
The Devil Inside is about a woman, Isabella, who sets out to discover why her mother, now living in a mental hospital, killed three clergy people in the past. She is told to go to Italy to talk to some experts on the subject, and ends up discussing the matter with priests. These priests say that it may not be a medical issue, but her mother has a devil inside her, which then leads to more chaos and insanity.
This movie is a very cheap, unscary, and an unconvincing mess of a movie. It came out in January, too, which usually means a low-grade thriller movie. Horror/scary movies mostly come out in the summer or fall season, getting into the mood of halloween and later months of the year. But January seems pretty odd for this thriller to come out.
The acting in the movie alone is really, really mediocre. You can easily tell that the people are are trying to act like they’re really reacting, they’re definitely trying much too hard. This was aimed to be a movie that was a “found footage” type, like most of you know, the Paranormal Activity movies are, but it wasn’t convincing at all. I’m not saying that all of these kinds of films are bad, but if you’re planning on making a fake horror-documentary, at least get some good actors to portray the characters that are created for that movie.
The source material that the characters got information was very vague and unclear to the audience, but most of the audience seemed to care about the gore factor or the scary parts. Speaking of, those weren’t even scary. Nothing was really startling, and I distinctly remember that there was a dog about a quarter of the way into the movie that barked at a protagonist passing by, and that was the scariest part in the movie, because it was so sudden.
The movie has no conclusion whatsoever and just abruptly ends without a wrap-up, and it didn’t even make sense. Most characters end up killing themselves at the end. When my sister-in-law and I went to see it, we were honestly laughing by this point. It was utterly ludicrous. At the very end, the screen just cuts to black and has a title card that says something like “The facts of the Rossi case have never been fully established, but to follow the investigation, go to TheRossiFiles.com.” and then the credits role. It was terrible. So, I would definitely not recommend this movie to anyone, whether you like horror movies or not, this is not a good one.
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