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The Devil Inside
The Devil Inside

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Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman
Jan 06, 2012
R, 1 hr. 23 min.

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Movie Info

Cast: Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth, Suzan Crowley, Danny Trejo, B-Real, Elika Crespo, Joey Medina, Carla Sánchez, Dyana Ortelli
Director: William Brent Bell, Joaquin Perea
Rated: R
Running Time: 1 hr. 23 min.
Genre: Horror
Theater Release: Jan 06, 2012
DVD Release: May 15, 2012
Synopsis: In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) confessing that she had brutally killed three people. 20 years later, her daughter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) seeks to understand the truth about what happened that night. She travels to the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Italy where her mother has been locked away to determine if her mother is mentally ill or demonically possessed. When she recruits two young exorcists (Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth) to cure her mom using unconventional methods combining both science and religion, they come face-to-face with pure evil in the form of four powerful demons possessing Maria. Many have been possessed by one; only one has been possessed by many. -- (C) Paramount Insurge

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
    If it's January, it must be low-grade horror season.
  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
    From the amateur acting, writing and directing to an ending that is shocking only in its stupidity, The Devil Inside will make you puke for all the wrong reasons.
  • Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
    It stumbles along to what may arguably be the most abrupt, nonsensical ending since Luis Bunuel stopped slicing cows' eyes for the sake of surrealism.
  • Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
    "The Devil Inside'' usefully reminds us how little it takes to make some people scream in a crowded movie theater.
  • Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly
    The Devil Inside's biggest shock arrives when it abruptly ends - just as it hits its stride.
  • Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
    People of the world: If you find some footage, leave it be. You will likely be doing the rest of us a huge favor.
  • Mark Jenkins, Washington Post
    You can see where this is going, and the filmmakers can see that you can see. So they rush to the hideous yet hilarious climax in little more than an hour and then pad the running time with the slowest-moving credits ever.
  • Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail
    While it doesn't exactly reinvent the inverted cross, The Devil Inside definitely puts a nifty indie spin on the demonic possession genre.
  • Manohla Dargis, New York Times
    Clearly, when a cheapie pickup like "Paranormal Activity," which Paramount released a few years ago, turns into franchise gold, there's just no stopping the banality.
  • Eric D. Snider, Film.com
    Bell directs with all the enthusiasm of a guy who was called into work on his day off.
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