Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50111 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-04-15
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: French
• Subtitled in: English
• Dubbed in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 83 minutes

Customer Reviews

Have you ever heard of adoption Lady...........,
Well, I guess I can start off this review by saying that this is solid proof that Euro-Horror and it's director's are so far ahead of us Americans when it comes to the horror genre. While our studios are continuing to crank out remakes, and basically recycling stuff that have sat in the can for years - it are the European filmmakers who are out there whipping up new and imaginative ideas like they usually do.

From French Directing duo, Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury, comes INSIDE, a film that exploits a subject that surely has to be any mother's nightmare - having their child taken away from them. Now, I suppose that this would be hard for any mother, regardless the age of the child - but it has to be that much harder when the child is still in womb. In the film, we watch the main character go through the trauma of losing her husband to a crash. After the aftermath of the situation, she still keeps her sanity, just knowing that a piece of him remains, in the form of their unborn. What the Directors do here, is, well....wreck that sanity she has left, and they do it brutally. There is a mysterious woman hell bent on claiming Sarah's baby as her own. Whether she's have to kill Sarah, or just blatantly extract it from her womb, she is bound to finally become a mother herself.

INSIDE is definitely a thrill ride from the beginning to end....it's one of those "you'll never see what's coming next" kind of films. I must say that the realistic gore in the film is just fantastic and brutal, it adds more tension to any already intense situation - but the fact of the matter is that through the course of this film we watch an innocent woman(Sarah) go through absolute hell, while fighting to keep her and her beloved child alive,

The production value and direction here are great, and really capture all of the tense moments. For the most part, the film has but only one location, which is Sarah's house. I have always said that the one location thing could be a disaster (Bug (Special Edition) anyone?), but if they're handled correctly. a primary set could be the best thing to happen to a film. In the case of INSIDE, having one location works out very well as in conveys the feeling of being trapped from the point of view of our victim. And like many films of the same type. you do expect everything to dull down after awhile, but truth is, once this film gets to the subject of it's plot, there are very few dull moments, as the special effects alone are enough to have you glued to your seat. And another thing about the film is it's visual effects - I loved the CGI shots of the baby in the womb.

In the end, there's a reason that INSIDE was released under the DIMENSION EXTREME label; it is extreme, violent, brutal and just about every other adjective that you can think to call it - the scary thing is that the film's subject is one that could happen anywhere in the world or any day of the week.

Stunningly unpleasant
A serious, grown up horror movie that smashes taboos and genre conventions with a cold hearted relish.

It's a difficult film to watch...the atmosphere of dread that pervades the first third of the film is replaced by clammy fear. And the scenes of violence are truly shocking.

It plays out like a nightmarish fairy tale, and Beatrice Dalle is astonishing.

Gore for gores sake, and massive gaps in logic leave Inside feeling cold.
Inside is probably one of the most graphic, bloody, nauseating, eyes averting and shockingly violent modern horror films to date.

I actually am struggling at the moment to think of a film which made me feel more uncomfortable. Maybe George A Romero's Day of The Dead, and that was 25 years ago.

Much has been made of the new French horror films. Darker, more brutal, more bloody and extreme than mainstream american horror films (Hostel, Saw) and also much deeper, and much more clever.

Martyrs is probably the only of these films I actually liked. Switchblade Romance, while very suspenseful, was very unorginal. Frontiers I thought was even worse. Cannibal Nazis? How new..

The plot in this is actually rather original. A woman who lost her husband in a car crash a few months earlier, is due to give birth to her child the next day, which happens to be Christmas. However, a strange woman comes to the door, demanding her child.. From there on we have blood sprays, navals being sliced open with scissors, as well some very sensitive manly areas. If a film was ever to rival Peter Jacksons Braindead in pure blood, then this would probably be it.

Except, the tone is such darker, so much more serious, that the blood and gore is fairly off-putting. I'm not one to be put off by violence in a film, but something about it in this film, made me feel rather sick. Every death was lingered on FAR too long, and there was also some bad cgi violence. Boo. Hostel and Saw have violence to titilate the audience, giving those kind of films a legitimate torture-porn lisence, and unfortunatley I feel like I must label this with that term.

The gore is rather pointless. It doesn't move along the plot, it doesn't make us care more about the plot, the characters, no deeper understanding. Also, any film where animals are savagely and pointlessly killed instantly loses marks with me.

The film can be very scary, but some of the scariest films made are essentially gore-less. Halloween, and the Spanish horror Rec. This shows how the gore doesn't even benefit the experience.

Some of the police officers are so inept. I won't give it away, but the police officers defy logic, with leaving a pregnant woman alone after an emergency call in which she says there was a threatning woman trying to break in, is a personal highlight.

Trying not to spoil anything, the last 15 minutes of Inside are the final nail in the coffin. Toasters and a zombie all get involved. No, I didn't get it either.

I give it an extra star due to the acting, which is good, not amazing, but good. Also, the cinematography is also quite good, with interesting shots and angles.

Unfortunately, due to the needless and sickening gore, the CGI, the ending I really can't say I recommend Inside. If you want gore, try George A Romeros Dawn of the Dead, or Peter Jacksons Braindead. Scares and suspense, Martys or Rec are good choices. I know I'm going to be hated by many horror fanboys, but this is just my opinion, and I'm only trying to advise those who may not be into as extreme horror as others.