for it and found it silly, it was hailed by fans of horror as a return to the early days of splatter shock cinema. Sheitan 2006 was a return to backwoods horror combined with horrific elements of Satanism. Recently, Frontier s was a successful European extreme version of torture porn American films such as sAw and Hostal that catered to the audience's bloodlust by delivering the gore in a way that those films failed to. Now, we have INSIDE. All I can say is that this film proves that it is the French that are making some of the most demented films. After watching this, I truly wondered whether the French people had or had not gone completely insane. This is one of the few horror films I have seen that just does everything right. It deserves to be put with the original Dawn of the Dead, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Rosemary's Baby, and The Shining as one of the scariest films ever made. It is also one of the most polarizing and disturbing films I have seen. If I were to describe this film in one word, it would be extreme. This is most definitely one of the most extreme films I have ever come across. It's the first film that has been put on the Dimension Extreme that really deserves to be on there. Dirty Sanchez was basically just an English Jackass:the Movie but with more gore and more shocking acts big whoop . Broken was a silly B movie. Teeth and Black Sheep were just gore comedies. Inside is where it's really at!The plot is very simple. It is about a pregnant widow and the events that transpire on Christmas Eve one night in which a mad woman invades her home. This may not sound that bad to read, but trust me when I say that things go from bad to worse. The film is 80 minutes of increasingly shocking and inhuman acts of cruelty, extreme horror, and a very high amount of suspense. It just gets worse and worse. This film makes every torture porn movie look completely quaint. Imagine Halloween but pumped up on steroids.This film starts out incredibly bleak and depressing in the first 20 minutes. Then it turns shocking really quickly. Then it goes from shocking to cruel, to immoral, to extreme, to nearly unwatchable, and then finally completely unwatchable. About 30 minutes in, I had to pause it and collect my thoughts. I couldn't believe what I was watching. I had no idea that this film was as shocking as it was. However, if I had known that the film would only get ten times worse in just 2 minutes, I probably would have been too scared to watch. This film doesn't mess around. It is an uncommonly effective piece of film-making. It is one of the most depraved films I have ever watched.So why should people see this? If it's so disgusting and horrible, why should people bother getting these images imprinted in their mind? I think this film deserves to be watched because it is simply the best of it's kind. Not only that, but it is one of the few horror movies that shows women being in power rather than men. It is, in it's own twisted way, the ultimate chick flick. The two women in this film that battle it out are two of the greatest female characters I have seen in a horror film. The main female character, in particular, is kind of like a woman from a Russ Meyer movie! There are parts of this film where she TRULY kicks a lot of ass. I watched this wanting to cheer for her. Add to that a great twist that leads up to an ending that is one of the creepiest endings ever, a couple of very emotional moments that are tear jerking, a great musical score, haunting and gorgeous cinematography, and some brilliantly done gore, and you have one of the greatest French horror movies ever made.

being terrorized is nasty enough but there are actually moments in the film where they have the audacity to show the action from the fetus point of view. I think that is wonderfully evil! It is not for the squeamish and certainly not for those who are not fans of the horror genre. But for those of us who have watched hours of obnoxiously bad tripe, when a film like this comes along it is a beautiful shiny beacon of Horror light! There is only one ever so brief scene between Sarah and a cop near the end that I just thought was out of place and didn't work. Pure, bloody brilliance!! HIGHLY Recommended!

arrive for different reasons and many die of course in many violent ways .Simple as it sounds, the movie has many achievements that require further explanation:Everything occurs within a small house; basically a bedroom a bathroom, a living room and a corridor and stair. Everything very small. - The violence and tension are so high that people laugh or to cry in some scenes. - The two main characters and motives are not so simple defined as you might expect. - The end is absolutely unconventional.In brief; this is the movie that will make you disregard any other slasher movie. As an additional note, Beatrice Dalle created the most terrifying psycho character in history; a female but far more stronger LECTER. She does that very little dialog and her almost sweet face; mix of sad and madness. It will be very difficult for her to avoid typecasting.

effective, GALLONS of blood and a European flair for atmosphere, À L'Intérieur is simultaneously emotionally draining and bruising. The story takes place inside a house and that's it. It's more like three rooms actually. Very straight-forward and simple. That's called budget-awareness Asylum. And yes, it's very short too, clocking at a measly 78 minutes 5 of which are the credits . But, frankly, it couldn't have been anymore. It was enough to leave me exhausted.There are easily more gory or more disturbing movies out there, but I can say that À L'Intérieur left me satisfied in both departments. There's something disturbing about pregnant women in peril and combined with scissors, exploding heads, custom built flame throwers and stabbing in the balls, it's gore heaven with the occasional cringe-worthy moment.The violence is relentless and numbing. The splatter, of the same spraying variety that made Haute Tension's first half so beautiful. A particular scene of blood spraying across a wall would make Dario Argento and fans of Tenebre proud. Although, unlike HT, there are no gimmicks and ridiculous twists here. What makes À L'Intérieur so effective by comparison is that the violence piles up and leads to a climactic finale. And the final image is haunting beyond words...Some people might be eager to dismiss it as torture porn, a hack term often thrown around these days. It might be so. But unlike rubbish like Hostel, it's packed with atmosphere, tension and has its heart set in all the right places. In the end of the day it's a horror movie. If some people want their horror watered-down, harmless and PG-13, the big studios will have something in store for them. À L'Intérieur is for the rest of us blood-hounds. Anyways, grab it if you can find it. It just goes to show what you can do with a relatively small budget and DV technology.

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.

best French horror year ever, with the cruel & sick "Frontière s " – about a confrontation between youthful thugs and a family of neo-Nazis - and of course "A L'intérieur", which is honestly one of the most disturbingly shocking and nauseating films ever made. Just to give you an idea, this movie makes all the "Saw" films look like kindergarten picnics and "Hostel" like a well-behaving high school student project. This isn't an exaggeration or a shameless way to promote the French horror cinema, because anyone who saw "A L'intérieur" as well will easily confirm the comparisons are justified. Not only is the carnage in this movie far more visceral and confronting, the script also doesn't avert from a single taboo theme or politically incorrect topic. A pregnant woman is subject to extreme terror, we witness the effect of physical torture from inside the womb, the infamous Parisian riots are mentioned numerous times including the typical reactions of the police and there definitely isn't a happy ending. Everything in this film, every slightest detail and every briefest word that gets spoken, is severely depressing and honestly makes you wonder why the world can be such a twisted place. It's Christmas Eve and Sarah, a beautiful young photographer living in the Parisian suburbs, is only one night away from giving birth to her first baby. But Sarah's feeling everything but merry, because her boyfriend and the father of her unborn child died four months earlier in a terrible road accident. Far away from all the Christmas celebrations, Sarah's all alone in her house when suddenly an unknown woman shows up on her doorstep. The mysterious and uncanny lady is determined to take away Sarah's baby and promptly subjects her to the most unimaginably cruel terror. All the attempts of people her mother, employer and police patrol car wanting to help Sarah result in unspeakable bloodbaths.This would of course be an ideal film to raise another debate about morals and the entertainment value of explicit horror movies. Who the hell, in his/her right state of mind, would find joy and entertainment in witnessing a pregnant woman undergo an inhumanly cruel series of barbarities? The truth remains that "A L'intérieur" is a non-stop depiction of senseless violence and various gratuitously bloody death sequences that serve absolutely no artistic purpose. I, for one, am the first to admit that this is a deeply unpleasant film to endure and, throughout several of the extendedly illustrated massacres, I almost felt ashamed to watch it with my eyes uncovered. But the film is inexplicably fascinating and impossible to look away from. Writer/director Alexandre Bustillo masterfully evokes feeling of helplessness because you want to help Sarah, but can't , despair and disturbance. The make-up effects leave absolutely nothing to the imagination and several moments of grueling horror are very likely to cause overly sensitive people to throw up or faint. Most remarkable, however, is that the directors still manage to maintain an incredibly high level of brooding suspense. Usually this type of torture-porn flicks like for example "Saw" and "Hostel" only manage to gross out their audience and completely ignore tension, but this gem easily achieves both effects. The acting performances, photography and musical guidance all contribute to the brilliance of "A L'intérieur" as well, and the aforementioned writer/director Bustillo is definitely someone to keep an eye on in the future. Now that I've seen this film, I feel slightly more confident about the scheduled remake of one of my all-time favorite genre landmarks "Hellraiser" , because he'll take place in the director's chair.

with Halloween and toss in Dario Argento's style particularly from 'Tenebrae' and you have Inside.Bustillo does not bother with a story that is in-depth or very large for that matter. In fact, it is rather simple: Sarah Alysson Paradis is a young photographer who recently lost her boyfriend in a car crash and she is still grieving over her loss. It is now Christmas and she is alone and expecting a baby the next day. On Christmas Eve she is visited by a Woman in Black Béatrice Dalle who wants to get inside the house for reasons unknown. However, soon enough, she is in the house and her goal becomes crystal clear. She is after Sarah's baby and she will do anything to get it...absolutely anything.There are many techniques that make this film as good as it is. First and foremost, the setting. The majority of the film is set in Sarah's house, furthermore, most of this is in her bathroom. This makes for some extremely intense moments and real feelings of claustrophobia. Also, the two leading ladies give such powerful performances which really assists in getting us to feel what they feel and think what they think. Sarah's determination to survive and fight back is realistic and gives the movie a powerful vibe and theme of a mother's love for her unborn child. La femme the Woman in Black is comparable to The Shape Michael Myers from John Carpenter's 1978 slasher classic 'Halloween.' For the first 20 minutes she appears as a silhouette, not speaking, just standing and watching. Creepy and chilling are just two words which describe her in the first part of the movie.Now onto the parts of the movie discussed the most...the copious amounts of blood. And let me tell you, once the blood starts to flow it never stops. From the moment we see our first drop the movie moves at such a breakneck pace it is hard to keep up. I was literally on the edge of my seat while watching these parts, that is how intense they were. Not only that, but the gore was so realistic and brutal at times I found myself covering my eyes which I rarely do in any film . Blood sprays, crotches are stabbed, throats are slashed, faces are burnt and heads explode. The finale is soaked in blood and features one of the most depressing, disturbing and gruesome endings I have seen. No one will be able to leave the movie feeling well...I felt emotionally drained and ill. Movies rarely do that to me.Ignoring some lapses in logic and a fairly bland revelation not really a twist , Bustillo and Maury have created a refreshingly brilliant horror movie that proves that: horror is not dead and that the French are now producing the best horror movies seen in many years.4/5

not for you!!!

Christmas Eve, and the next day she will go to the hospital, where they will induce labor. Unfortunately, a creepy woman Béatrice Dalle breaks into her home with the hope of stealing the baby, whether or not it has been born yet. So, yeah, if the thought of a pregnant woman in peril bothers you, avoid at all costs. The film gets every bit as tasteless as you might imagine. If you can stomach it, though, it's a perfect B-level horror movie. It actually made me queasy, and I'm not one who is easily queased.