À l'intérieur (Inside) Reviews and Ratings



  • December 17, 2009
    A deeply disturbing horror movie. It is unrelenting in it's brutality about a heavily pregnant woman recently widowed who's about to give birth and terrorised in her own home by a psycho bitch who breaks into her house and wants her unborn child. If you're into gore filled movies...( read more) then this has it all - stabbings, exploding heads, DIY tracheotomy, a face being burnt and copious amounts of blood. I've never seen anything this extreme before and this movie has one of the greatest female nutjobs you'll ever see in Beatrice Dalle. The final 5 mins is very hard to watch. Do not see this if you're squeamish or pregnant as it'll give you nightmares.
  • December 16, 2009
    Brace yourselves, this gets damn gorey towards the end! I appreciate the talent this movie had to make me almost throw up at the sight of a stomach being cut open with scissors. Wow! Screw the baby being born! I'm going to remove it myself! For the love of blood, gore, and guts i...( read more)t is gross and I appreciate that! I thought this movie was pretty creepy. A woman stalking you, telling you she wants your unborn child, making a bloody mess out of your home... I'd say that's pretty scary. I'm not too into French Horror but I liked this one.
  • November 9, 2009
    Just shy of maximum score because so much of it was so dark. Having said that I'm not sure I really wanted to see even more than I did of what was going on in this gruesome, gory French horror. A real achievement, particularly as a first film, this pulls no punches whatsoever and...( read more) surely sends a clear signal to US film makers who seek to produce such fare. Don't mess about - just do it. But isn't this just the most harrowing and bloody, violent film ever? Well, maybe not ever, but that remains believable and involving from beginning to end. Where you want to look away but the action is so compelling you cannot. When you hope maybe there will be a pause in the nastiness but the makers just crank up the awfulness again and again. I have never seen a female attacker be so violent or so relentless outside of Japanese cinema. A remarkable achievement.
  • November 1, 2009
    THIS film is impossible to forget. It's one of the goriest films I have ever seen, and one of the most horrifying. If you want to see a truly deeply sick, fucked up, shocking, gorefest of a horror film, this is the one to see! Also it's only 80 minutes long, so it's short, sweet,...( read more) and to the point. It'll make you scream, it'll make you cry, and it will make you cringe.
  • November 1, 2009
    I guess there's some sort of race in France to see who can make the dumbest horror/gore movie. Aja started with Haute Tension, then it came other movies like Frontieres and Martyrs. I haven't seen those, but with this one and HT i think i have clear idea of the result of said rac...( read more)e. Everyone is winning. I do want to point that, among the web of stupidity that was thrown at my face, probably the truly most disturbing aspect was seeing the movie trying to have some sort of "social content" by refering the urban riots of Paris from couple of years ago. Because the first thing that comes to your mind after watching a bunch of people getting killed in the most idiotic ways possible is "gee, there sure is a lot of racial tension in France, rite? Human beings should be more tolerant to each other. THE MOAR U KNOW!"

    It's a bit funny to see how the slasher genre hasn't really changed at all, not one bit. Every other genre and sub-genre out there has changed in one way or another, not this one. We are still seeing the same story and same mechanics over and over: unstoppable killers with superhuman strength and reflexes, lead characters doing the exact opposite of what any human being would do in a similar situation. Then the rest of the package: the killer is always behind the victim, always teleporting from one point to another, corpses can revive under the right circumstances, conveniently placed weapons and other assorted items are always right at hand. The list goes on and on. Is like watching a video of someone on their morning routine, just with less fx make up and fake blood, but equally tedious and predictable. The way these movies set themselves "apart" from each other is in how creative (read: absurd) the deaths can be. The silliest the better, you are not suppose to "suspend your belief" anymore, you have to shut down all the parts of your brain that are telling you how stupid all this is in order to "enjoy" these kind of movies.

    The way to rate this material, i'm guessing, is to notice how inventive the killings were, and how well shot said killings were. But it comes to a point where the real questions you should be asking is, why? Why keep making movies like this? Dumb, silly, cliche and absurd, all of that in the worse sense posible. Movies cost money, why not use that money to tell something else? Something better, something that might actually make sense in a proper context, and maybe even accomplish something beyond a mere "ewwww!" I'm all for movies creating an effect on the viewer, but even at that there are different kind of reactions. If you want to get disgusted you don't have to pay a movie ticket and spend money on junk food and parking, you can just go behind a dumpster and stare at the garbage decompose.

    Some of you might still be curious to see this. Don't, if you want to see red fluids dropping by galons just buy a bunch of ketchup bottles and smash them into a wall. There you go, lots of goey red stuff. You will save yourself time and brain cells in the process. You're not going to find a "plot", characters that might even have a single dimension or layer or anything that you find in a movie not concerned that much with the make up. Sure, maybe the movie wasn't looking for that, and if you're a "gore hound" you're not looking for that either. But what's the point of seeing the lead character in danger when i don't give a damn about her? Or about any of the other characters? Or about what's going on at all? It's just an excuse for the directors to show us how good they are at shooting in the dark, how "edgy" they can be with the material. We get it. Now please, go back to make music videos, commercials or whatever you were doing before this. Also, those shots of the babies in the uterus were fucking stupid.
  • October 18, 2009
    Disturbingly awesome
  • October 16, 2009
    Excelente recomendacion para los amantes del suspenso, terror y sangre... con una tematica bien definida y un final inesperado... los primeros 15 minutos son muy aburridos... pero una vez que la punta de la tijera toca el ombligo la trama te mantiene con la boca abierta por el re...( read more)sto de la pelicula...
  • October 15, 2009
    Review Coming Soon .
  • October 14, 2009
    a young pregnant wife looses her husband in a car crash, and on christmas eve, while home alone months later a women intruder with a connection to her enters house andstarts to torture her, and so a tensehouse setting begins, ascrying for help,asshe comes back for more,somenice t...( read more)ouches throughout,andgory violence help this being a good little horror thriller
  • September 24, 2009
    On a personal note, it's interesting how many 4 1/2-star and 5-star ratings this gorefest has received. It doesn't differ much from the Hollywood formula, but the effective tension it builds and the respectable, classic references to Italian giallos are worth noticing. As shockin...( read more)g and mentally disturbing as it was originally intended, the unrated version will make your guts bleed. A modern, decent French horror and the second best out of the whole bunch that has come out this decade.

    61/100
  • September 23, 2009
    So much blood..Nice !
  • September 21, 2009
    Unusual French horror movie based on suspense and a overriding shock factor. Sarah, a young pregnant woman who lost her partner and father of her unborn child in a car accident several months previous, is stalked and abused by a deranged woman who wants her unborn baby. The music...( read more) is terrific and causes much of the suspense, but when you have a character, played superbly by the intriguing looking Beatrice Dalle, who is willing to do ANYTHING to have this unborn child, the music isn't really necessary. The last 20 minutes or so do seem rather surreal, given the stranger incident with the supposedly dead police officer and odd cesarean part. The plot tends to be lost amidst the haze of the violence, but for shock factor and genuine suspense through fantastic music and cinematography, this is good. Gore, blood, violence and lots of shocks.
  • September 7, 2009
    Quite possibly the bloodiest movie I've ever seen. Pretty simple but realistic premise.
  • September 5, 2009
    Hmmm. I don't know what to say about À l'intérieur, apart from that it didn't really succeed for me as a horror film. Though there are two very committed and really quite brilliant performances, the story is practically non-existent. The gore/SFX probably does set at a new...( read more) benchmark in terms of gruesomeness. Realistic? Not so sure about that. The structure of this film quickly wore me out too: caller comes to check on pregnant protagonist, is promptly slaughtered by the psychotic woman who is terrorizing her. This happens over and over to less effect each time. The only two characters we get to 'know' in any way are the two leads, so anyone else's fate never matters. The fact that there is so much striking imagery, some excellent cinematography (love the grainy, dingy look), a fantastic music score and an actually pretty decent twist only makes the film more disappointing. This may have worked better as a short or one of those 45 minute horror anthology episodes, instead, despite a relatively short running time, it feels padded out, even if the tension stops things from ever really dragging. More focus on the script and structure - and perhaps some sort of social/moral commentary - would have made this a better film in my eyes.
  • August 11, 2009
    OMG!!! This movie is fucking awesome!!! I was at the edge of my seat watching and wanting to know what was going to happen next!!! It's Goriffic!!! A movie that will keep you intrigued throughout the entire time you watch it.
  • August 9, 2009
    One of my friends said it almost made her gag. No. I will not be watching this anytime soon.
  • August 3, 2009
    The kind of horror film that needs to be made more often. It is gloriously bloody, with very realistic gore that causes non-horror fans to reach for the remote control. This is another case where I watch a highly disturbingly deemed film and I'm surprised at the reception from pe...( read more)ople online when I thought it was overall cool and well made and a fun watch. The twist is OK and believable but not up to par as the rest of the film nor am I affected by the very last scene. But that's not why this is causing uproar - you'll probably be wholeheartedly fearing for the victim because of the hell she goes through. Plenty of classic scenes for the squeamish.
  • July 30, 2009
    Ever since Alexandre Aja's abysmal High Tension, there has been a kind of revolution in French horror cinema, namely, films that present so much extreme violence and gore that they make Saw look like a Disney film. Inside is just about one of the most unpleasant, disturbing, bru...( read more)tal, and unrelentingly disgusting movie experiences I've ever had. This is not a compliment.
    I am a seasoned horror fan. I love horror. I love slasher movies. But I have one exception. I hate any movie, horror or not, that serves to exploit violence and gore for no other purpose than shock value or to showcase the skill of its directors in depicting realistic carnage.
    I've heard the fillmmakers talk about this film, and I've read many reviews of this movie that talk about it being a battle of wills, a deviant love story between a mother and her child. Wrong. The film has a one-track mind, which is pretty much the kind of intelligence that went into making this movie, and all that you need to watch this crap. Inside is an hour and 23 minutes of pointless violence.
    The directors don't want a happy ending, so they manipulate every situation so that it will turn out bad for the pregnant lady. This is sickening. There is a scene where the cops enter the house, realize that the woman answering the door is the killer, and proceed to arrest her. Instead of properly arresting her, one goes upstairs, leaving the other to do all the work for himself. This second cop seems to have no idea how to arrest a woman, because he tries to do it while she's standing up, giving her the leverage. Umm, no, I don't buy that. Another scene shows a cop more concerned with fixing circuit breakers than getting the pregnant lady out of the house. And I guess these guys have never heard of calling for backup? Finally, when the pregnant lady has the advantage and the killing strike, a cop who's been shot through the head and dead through this whole time comes back to life and beats her into labour. Can you say, what the fuck?
    There are great horror movies out there that are extreme in their violence. Think Audition, The Last House on the Left or even the recent French film Martyrs. They use violence to provoke thought and address issues of morality. Inside aims to do none of that. And it isn't thrilling. There are too many moments where this story would have ended, but it doesn't because the story doesn't want it to. And don't give me the it's a movie, it doesn't have to make sense line because how many times have you complained about the realism of a movie.
    After watching Inside, I had to clear my head with something that stimulated thought with interesting, fully dimensional characters, and a properly structured plot. I watched two episodes of Six Feet Under. Now that is good filmmaking.
  • July 29, 2009
    Inside it's so bloody,dark,disturbing,violent & horrifying.
  • July 10, 2009
    Review:

    INSIDE is a near perfect horror movie. The first time in a while a movie had me on the edge of my seat. From start to finish, your head will be on a swivel from side to side, checking over your shoulders. It had my heart racing - not only with fear but w...( read more)ith excitement. American filmmakers should start taking notes from these foreign features. This is a well made horror film, one of the best in the last decade.


    The story is centered around a young pregnant woman who is expecting to give birth in less than a day. Her husband died in a terrible car accident months before, and she lives alone in a dangerous neighborhood. A neighborhood where riots and murders occur right down the street. She's lonely and down on herself. She's a very vulnerable woman now. But for every protagonist, there's an antagonist: that's where the mysterious dark haired woman comes in. Who is she? What does she want of this soon-to-be mother? Just some of the things that make her more interesting of a character. She begins to stalk the young woman, looking through windows and doors at her. It gets intense once she gets inside the house.


    Never have I seen the old 'face disappears into complete darkness' technique worked so well since the second Halloween movie over 25 years ago. Movies have tried the home invasion/creepy stalker show several times over the years (most recently last years The Strangers), but it really works here. The killer moves through the shadows unseen until just the right moment. But, not only is Inside very suspenseful, but equally disturbing. Blood flows by the gallons through out the course of the film. Guns, knifes, scissors, shards of glass, everything is reduced to a weapon here.


    But, for every good thing there's always a bad thing. Some of the things here are a bit over the top. I'm not spoiling nothing by saying the killer is just a woman, yet the body count is pretty high. It all happens in one night yet, in one house and police officers and everybody who steps foot into the house is slaughtered. The amount of blood sprayed through the house on all over the walls is gruesome yet unbelievable. But, when all is said and done, it's still a horror movie we're talking about.


    In the long run, INSIDE is one of the most disturbing movies you'll see in a long time. It's not the most well-made horror flick ever, but it's better than what we've been shown over here in American theaters lately. By the end of the movie, you'll know how the viewers of the original Halloween felt 30 years ago after stepping out of the theaters.
  • June 25, 2009
    perhaps personally i do possess a prejudice against shock-cinema which is to offend the tolerance of your senses continuously, and what's exactly the point to stir up your worst imaginations on various nightmares? do you need such perverse stimulus because you're too callously ja...( read more)ded? maybe it's the contradiction of human nature that you cannot resist the curiosity of the strange and the bizarre, and there's a voice inside you that drives into a peep at the deviant. but you bounce back just like your reaction against the over-heated stove. the procedure is nothing enjoyable but catalysis of vomit.

    the story is about a woman's diabolical obssession of motherhood, so she haunts over an ill-fated pregnant woman by tracking into her house then brutally breaking into her room with a pair of scissors in attempt to cut the baby out to keep as her own. so the deeply endangered mother-to-be hides in the bathroom to defend herself...then the psychopathic wench shrewdly utilizes her fatal pair of scissors to slaughter any possible interference which includes the pregnant woman's parents...any potential cruel killing method is contained within this film such as stabbing a man's genital grudgingly...it's an extreme dosage of mental disturbance..surely there's no peaceful ending: the wench's got to sing her lullaby with the infant she freshly cut from a woman's belly while herself is deformed by a gas sprayer as she previously tries to light off a cigarette. in a nutshell, "inside" is a story of pure evil and absolute malice.

    the massacre is deviced with every bit of "creavity" you could imagine as if the director remarks "let's think of every worst way of torturing someone in the most disgusting ways which would make you puke"...i've got to admit the french ways of killings are more "innovative " and scarier than american michael bay's recent "chainsaw texas massacre",,,i have no problem with cinematic violence as long as it's upon the dark side of humanity. yes, you might say such terrible massacre do happen in this world since serial killers do exist. but how about their minds? any profound motivation or character sketch?? yes, it has but very limited and meager. so the victim is a survivor of car accident and the killer is made barren also by a car accident..anything more?? it doesn't have any spare time for dialogues except fanatic continuous killings. very often it does sicken me to think of the raising popularity of shock cinema, whether it's french or american ones like saws or chain texas, audience doesn't have a heart anymore to probe the depths of characters but request of intense amount of irritant to defy your adrenaline. you wanna challenge your adrenalin, go parachute-diving which might teach you something of REAL SURVIVAL.
  • June 24, 2009
    "Inside" as it is called in English is an absolutely horrifying movie from start to finish. I usually do not have such a weak stomach but the gore in this movie was so terrifying and hard to watch that it almsot made me sick. This is a battle between two women who are connected i...( read more)n a way but it is not revealed until later on in the movie. Our main character was in a car accident in which her husband did not survive but the baby growing in her stomach did. On the eve of her delivery she is visited by a crazed woman who seems to know too much about her. The crazed woman finds her way into the house and goes on a killing spree in an effort to retrieve the woman's baby. Completely sick. I must admit I've never seen a movie like this before.
  • June 23, 2009
    THE most violent film i have seen but its AMAZING
  • June 19, 2009
    The French are sick, crazy bastards. Never for a second think they're really cheese eating surrender monkeys - these monkeys are more likely to tear off your skin, fashion an Ed Gein prophylactic and fuck you to death with it.

    The last messed up French horror film I saw before t...( read more)his was Haute Tension/High Tension/Switchblade Romance, and while it certainly lived up to it's name, it also managed to be incredibly disturbing - we see a man fucking a severed head. Inside follows this proud tradition in ways I never thought I would see in such a slick, polished production.

    The gyst of Inside is, a young pregnant woman is involved in a car crash that kills her partner and she is left to carry (and one day raise) the child alone and this would be a troubling time for any woman - but her struggles are only just beginning as she is soon terrorized by a demented bitch who has every intention of carving out her child and taking it.

    The violence is grueling, I have not seen gore this intense in many years and unlike many gore movies - it's not fun. You don't want to laugh with joy when you see some of the insane things they pull off in this film because the atmosphere is so dark and oppressive that there is genuine menace to the acts, it's a horrifying and disgusting film but it's also incredibly scary. Many moments throughout the film will linger in your mind, making you eager to reach out and turn on a light after it's done but it is the final moments that will haunt your thoughts - a chillingly subdued moment, grimly framed, the perfect bookend to a relentless rollercoaster of pain and fear. This movie is one of the real deals of the genre, forget your Saws and your Hostels, this is a movie that manages to make gore scary.

    God bless you, Frenchies - just don't expect me to let you babysit for me, ok?
  • June 12, 2009
    dat movie so cool...hehehehe i like it
  • June 5, 2009
    Recommended by melodyofyourdemise.
  • June 4, 2009
    this movie just rocks...it's that simple. Gorehounds sound the alarm! I can guarantee that this film will give you blood pretty much everywhere, interesting ways of killing people with a pair of scissors and have you clutching your stomach the entire time (well at least the ladie...( read more)s lol)

    Great performances, great story and just what I expected. Damn! every single french horror flick I see these days rule.

    So gorehounds what in the hell are you waiting for?! watch it and I'm sure at least one thing of this movie will still be playing in your head even after you turn the movie off.

  • June 3, 2009
    Starts off decently but does not really go anywhere from that, and parts were very far fetched for me. But the movies gore is top notch and makes the film worth watching.
  • April 18, 2009
    want can i said this film of gore is really good i really enjoy this sadic and sicophat woman
    i love her face so insensible and the blood well is really good
  • April 7, 2009
    And then the frenchs director came, firts we had the amazing Haute Tension and now the horror fans are happy to watch another gory and weel made film come from France, we have À l'intérieur (Inside).

    Long time no see such a SCARY, BRILIANT and <
    ...( read more)b>DISTURBING film, À l'intérieur (Inside) is the most scary film I have ever seen, it has everything: acting, story and gore, gore, gore and more gore with blood, a movie that you shouldn´t miss.

    Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury proves that theres no need to remake or continue a movie to come with something fresh and bloody.

    Two thumbs up for frenchs directors!!!
  • March 30, 2009
    If you're in for a bloody movie, you should definitely see this one! It's story isn't that spectacular, but the pace is fast and I promise you, you won't get bored!
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  • March 24, 2009
    INSANE, VIOLENT, SENSELESS, JUST THE WAY I LOVE IT!!!
  • March 20, 2009
    One of the best films in its genre. Real bloody horror presented in a realistic atmosphere. Inside the womb, inside the house, blood everywhere and one controversial scene, at least the birth is. Or not?
    Watch it and decide yourself.
  • March 10, 2009
    Seeing so much blood was really quite an experience, I mean, it never lets up, right up from the opening scene and the taut editing plus the short runtime for the whole film makes this much more vile as it is. Not even the art design allows for any calm, with such exhaustive and ...( read more)unnerving colours and shadows. Very realistic and also, the music was one of a kind, got right in my nerves.
  • March 4, 2009
    A masterpieice of modern french horror
  • February 28, 2009
    One of the most, if not the most, sickest and goriest horror movies I've ever seen. Lots of blood, disturbing and disgusting scenes, and a crazy psycho murderess. This is only recommended for the true hardcore horror fan, the rest should better avoid this for they own sake.
  • February 25, 2009
    provokes a constant state of 'something bad is about to happen'.
    super red He'll never know why
    Note on Region 1 DVD: the cover makes this movie look generic which it is not.
  • February 25, 2009
    A work of sheer demonic brilliance! Alexandre Bustillo who made a wonderful debut on this shocking and thrilling psychological horror thriller is one of the bloodiest movies ever and most unique.

    Strongly recommended!
  • February 17, 2009
    This is the kind of film that pisses me off. It is well directed, scored and photographed with decent performances to boot but at its core it is nothing more than a very, very bad slasher film. All that talent was wasted on a demo reel of special effects created with the intent o...( read more)f securing future contracts.

    Dumb characters are a staple of bad slasher films (and even some good ones), but "Inside" takes the cake. Our slasher is just a regular human being, and a relatively frail one at that, who is consistently outnumbered, outmuscled and outgunned. The bulk of the movie is, in essence, a long running joke about how these statues we are meant to treat as characters via suspension of disbelief will manage to fuck up a seemingly unfuckupable situation that is completely under control and get themselves killed for our enjoyment. The last 20 minutes of the film are particularly egregious, and reveal the fact that the filmmakers have a lot more in common with Eli Roth than it is wise to.

    What are we left with, then, if we simply take the film for what it is? It isn't frightening, because not only have we seen about 30 home-invasion films in the past 2 years but this one leaves little to the imagination. It isn't affecting, because not for a second do we buy these stand-ins as characters and thus feel nothing but contempt for them. It isn't entertaining, because the film's formula of visitors getting the drop on our slasher only to be dropped in turn by behaving as no human being has, in all likelihood, ever behaved gets very old very fast. The film's graphic and realistic bloodletting may provoke the occasional reflexive wince at first, but the film is so determined to SHOCK us and overload our delicate sensibilities with such a barrage of violence that it isn't very long before the film has, unwittingly, reached the dreaded level of self parody.

    When the best thing you can say about a film is that it tried to make you wince, you know you've wasted 2 hours. "Inside", however, doesn't even manage to satisfy its puerile aim because it labors under the impression that violence and gore in and of themselves are enough to generate an emotional response when it could not possibly be more mistaken. An audience isn't involved in what happens, but in who it happens to. If we have no reason whatsoever to care about what occurring then suspension of disbelief is broken, and we remain well aware that we are watching buckets of corn syrup and latex being wasted in what is little more than a lazy, cynical attempt to maintain our attention.
  • February 10, 2009
    Ive seen the pics...read the reviews.....good God it looks to be brutally insane and macabre. Can't wait!!!!
  • February 7, 2009
    Must-see horror. Best to go into this knowing nothing. A new classic, with some of the most gripping gore to splatter the screen in decades. This is one of those movies where I feel the only substantial thing I have to say is, "Why haven't you seen this yet?"

    After a second ...( read more)screening, I've noticed some cool details: the address of the house is 666, the film uses fade wipes not to indicate passage of much time but to indicate a shift in perspective (except for once towards the very end), the first time the killer is in the house her shadow appears pregnant. As I recall from the first screening, the house feels incredibly womb-like and I still can't exactly decipher how the director does this other than pure pacing, tension, some of the soundtrack, and the story itself. The sound is brilliant and is responsible for making the kills seem so immediate and vicious. The whole final scene, but especially that final creepy shot is excruciatingly horrifying to the extent that it almost makes me want to quit the horror genre. Few films have delivered such genuine and unforgettable scares. I was left genuinely frightened and creeped out at the conclusion, feeling that same residual horror that The Exorcist leaves stained upon your brain. I'm ratcheting this up to five stars.
    "So Fucked Up" highlight: supposedly dead and eyeless policeman rises and fights back
  • February 5, 2009
    Visually beautiful and daring, but the directing isn't all good and the story is horrible even for a horror movie.
  • February 4, 2009
    I think my expectations were a bit too high but it was never the less a good horror movie.
  • January 18, 2009
    Very tense and well-made.

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À l'intérieur (Inside) Summary