#24 – INSIDE (2007)
Dir. Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury
Number 24 on our Horror Countdown to Halloween is 2007's extreme French horror film, Inside. The film was written by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury with a screenplay written by Bustillo.
Inside punches your square in the face with it's opening scene and then basically never lets up. We have a brief interlude that helps build the tension, but once that quickly passes we're in for an extremely intense, graphic and sometimes just plain tough to watch 82 minutes of gory, messy, New Wave French Horror.
Inside follows Sarah (Alysson Paradis) the night before she's scheduled to go into labor and give birth to her first child. Sarah is visited by a strange Woman (Beatrice Dalle) who proceeds to break into Sarah's home and torment her.
The Woman's goal? To get Sarah's unborn baby.
It's pretty shocking to me that this film is actually coming in at #24 on this list. It could easily be much higher. The fact that Inside is so brutal and terrifying may actually work against it. It goes so far that it makes repeat viewings a tricky thing and thus this could be the reasoning that it ranks this low.
The sheer brutality of the gore in this film is a truly scary thing to watch, but that's not what makes this film so frightening in my mind. It's the location that all this violence goes down in. Sarah's home.
The Woman, who is absolutely menacing and in my opinion ranks up there with the best of the horror icons, breaks into Sarah's home to get what she wants and will stop at nothing. Few things are as scary as home invasion. Your home is supposed to be your place, your one, true safe haven. When someone hits you there, what greater fear is there?
The film manages to be ugly and disturbing while at the same time beautiful to look at it. The film is shot splendidly and the effects are some of the best around. Care went into making this project.
Inside certainly owes a lot to Alexandre Aja's High Tension, which kicked off this New Wave French Horror trend, but Inside virtually outshines that film in every way. If you're looking for a film from these new French horror movies to add to your October viewing collection, Inside is the way to go.
The ending is a little rough and maybe not the best from the viewer's standpoint and there's a little bit of weirdness with the house being filled with smoke constantly, but that gets a pass. Inside is 82 minutes of nonstop terror.
written by Christopher Coffel
Number 24 on our Horror Countdown to Halloween is 2007's extreme French horror film, Inside. The film was written by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury with a screenplay written by Bustillo.Inside punches your square in the face with it's opening scene and then basically never lets up. We have a brief interlude that helps build the tension, but once that quickly passes we're in for an extremely intense, graphic and sometimes just plain tough to watch 82 minutes of gory, messy, New Wave French Horror.
Inside follows Sarah (Alysson Paradis) the night before she's scheduled to go into labor and give birth to her first child. Sarah is visited by a strange Woman (Beatrice Dalle) who proceeds to break into Sarah's home and torment her.
The Woman's goal? To get Sarah's unborn baby.
It's pretty shocking to me that this film is actually coming in at #24 on this list. It could easily be much higher. The fact that Inside is so brutal and terrifying may actually work against it. It goes so far that it makes repeat viewings a tricky thing and thus this could be the reasoning that it ranks this low.
The sheer brutality of the gore in this film is a truly scary thing to watch, but that's not what makes this film so frightening in my mind. It's the location that all this violence goes down in. Sarah's home.
The Woman, who is absolutely menacing and in my opinion ranks up there with the best of the horror icons, breaks into Sarah's home to get what she wants and will stop at nothing. Few things are as scary as home invasion. Your home is supposed to be your place, your one, true safe haven. When someone hits you there, what greater fear is there?
The film manages to be ugly and disturbing while at the same time beautiful to look at it. The film is shot splendidly and the effects are some of the best around. Care went into making this project.
Inside certainly owes a lot to Alexandre Aja's High Tension, which kicked off this New Wave French Horror trend, but Inside virtually outshines that film in every way. If you're looking for a film from these new French horror movies to add to your October viewing collection, Inside is the way to go.The ending is a little rough and maybe not the best from the viewer's standpoint and there's a little bit of weirdness with the house being filled with smoke constantly, but that gets a pass. Inside is 82 minutes of nonstop terror.
written by Christopher Coffel
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