Inside (2008)

Good movie but grossly overrated

As Good As It Gets

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

I saw in many reviews that people don't know how La Femme enters the house when it's fully locked. My advice is (if you watch the 82min version) to look behind Sarah when she's showing the photos to the police. Between 23:35 and 23:37 we could see how La Femme enters freely through the front door.

Inside is a film which is meant for gore, gore and more gore. I dislike it for two main reasons: First, it has violated the moral threshold of not showing a pregnant woman and unborn baby being tortured, and Second the thing that there was no strong motive to do so. We do not need watching unborn babies and pregnant women being tortured for the sake of our entertainment.Also this film has a lot of plot loopholes. The director just decided to forget about any moralities and and everything about body limits and his villain is immortal. after burning half the face, she can not loose eyesight and one man after being shot in head can attack without any problem and unborn baby can be normally born after getting struck with so many weapons.

For the now, for this halloween season, I have sated a bloodlust I never needed to sate, because I never really had one. Yet after watching this film, I am almost good. Though I will continue to watch horror and thrillers and mysteries, this film was just a nonstop increasing gorefest.I wont spoil anything as the synopsis on the main page is descriptive enough, but don't see this while eating if you are easily upset by blood and violence. At times the characters ( cops especially) in this film were dumb as all get up, and perhaps that is just a return to the trope when it comes to the overall thriller genre( though cops are pretty dumb, by nature. Police forces don't want anything but grunts).So Though I want to hate much of this film, I want to like much of it, and must give it a medium 6/10; not sterling, but okay.

This is a movie about every mother's worst nightmare; the fear of having your baby taken from you. A relatively taboo subject, that get's tackled masterfully in this flick. I was thoroughly surprised at how intense and beautiful this movie was, given that it largely takes place inside a house. This film is disturbing, violent and bloody but it isn't without artistic value. This is extreme art house cinema, with lots of symbolism.The high- and low-key settings is used beautifully and really draws in the viewer and encourages you to think about what you see, while forcing you to concentrate about every scene. The colors are used so excellently, so subtlety and yet not so subtlety if you know about movie symbolism. It directly affects your mood and sets the tone perfectly, along with the intense and sad music. This is a movie, that makes you feel something that you don't want to feel, but that it reminds you, that you are alive. Even though I didn't understand a word they said (watched it without subtitles), I understood everything as it unfolded right before my eyes. That is no easy task to accomplish for a movie, spoken in a language you do not understand. After waiting many years to watch this film, simply because I thought the plot sounded incredibly generic, my only regret is that I can't unwatch it. Not that I thought it was too extreme, but simply because I haven't watched a movie yet that holds up to this amount of artistic value, and certainly not in the horror genre. I have watched a few art house cinema, but I thought they were boring. I have yet to watch any of the other movies from the New French Extremism, but I can't wait to get started. This is not a movie for the faint of heart or pregnant women. But if you like extreme, thought provoking horror and films, that isn't extreme just for the sake of controversy, then you're gonna love this. I will definitely buy this movie to add to my collection sometime soon.