Product Description

Four months after pregnant Sara loses her husband in a horrific auto accident, she is visited on Christmas Eve by a mysterious madwoman. Alone and desperate to save her unborn child, Sara fights to stay alive as each of her potential rescuers die at the womans sadistic hands.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3309 in DVD
• Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
• Released on: 2008-04-15
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: French
• Subtitled in: English
• Dubbed in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 90 minutes

Amazon.com
Hailed by several critics as the first great French horror film this millennium, Inside opens on a gory note and stays true to the bloodfest throughout. But rather than using splatter-gore for comedic effect, as did young directing team Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo's predecessor, Hershell Gordon-Lewis, this duo timed their gore to build tragic suspense, scene after disgusting scene. The strength of Inside's plot is its simplicity, though the film is slow at first. Pregnant photojournalist, Sarah Scaragato (Alysson Paradis), has just lost her husband in a fatal car accident and is in recovery when her baby is due on Christmas Eve, in fact. Morose, she rejects friend and family visits, opting to stay home. A bewitched predator, played by Beatrice Dalle, senses Sarah's vulnerability and seizes upon it like a spider capturing prey in its web. The tale, woven around maternal psychosis, reveals Dalle's haunting preoccupation with stealing Scaragato's unborn baby. Each character who enters Sarah's house, the "war zone" as one doomed policeman puts it, encounters the wrath of two women fighting with mirror shards, knitting needles, scissors, hurled kitchen appliances, and even a homemade bayonette. Like the best horror thrillers about motherhood---Rosemary's Baby, Don't Look Now, Alien---Inside seizes ample symbolic opportunities to exhibit the primal obsession women have with babies. Even better, Inside invites feminist critique as do other female-centric horror films such as Ginger Snaps, whose plots not only include strong, vengeful female victims, but also sympathetic, criminal femme fatales. An entertaining "Making of Inside" featurette follows, revealing makeup and special effects techniques. Inside is for a specific audience; as scenes get redder and wetter, the squeamish may find it sickening---beware and enjoy. —Trinie Dalton

Customer Reviews

What she wants is INSIDE
Since I watched this movie about 2 months ago, there have been 2 cases of babies being ripped from their mothers' wombs, and both babies survived. A review I read made the statement that INSIDE improbably combines horror fanboy glee and real tragedy and this is true. Both female leads are very very good. Beatrice Dalle comes across like the Angel of Death as she slips into Alyson Paradis' world. There are no concessions to reality - once the film makes its first kill after 15 minutes or so, the viewer is dragged through a degrading nightmare. Yes it's very bloody stuff, but the film has a poise and artistry which are almost relaxing. This dvd promises to get as many plays as my Dark Sky edition of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - it's upsetting and adrenalising. All the way through I was routing for the baby to survive, and one of the most incredible moments is Paradis, heavily pregnant covered in gore, extemporising a spear from household items and stalking her assailant through a suburban home that has suddenly been plunged into the dark ages. Dark, literally, atavistic, in that survival for the next five minutes (a la Texas Chainsaw) is the only thing on anybody's mind . . . except for Dalle's. She just wants that baby.

What a way to demolish a rather promising movie!
!!!WARNING! SPOILERS!!! This movie has got to have one of the most idiotic plots ever. It starts off great. Is quite good through the first 40 minutes or so (though too gory for my tastes). But the moment the cops arrive to check on the heroine, it begins to dreadfully go south. In the last 20 minutes it becomes so absurd and silly that I caught myself wondering whether I was watching a horror movie, or a horror spoof. I'm not a doctor, but I know quite a few, and I'm pretty sure that no one would survive 5 minutes (let alone walk around) after being stabbed with huge scissors in the bellybutton, poked in the throat with a stick, smacked in the head with a toaster, and generally speaking whomped and thrown about the way our heroine does during the course of this movie... While pregnant! No way in heck would an unborn baby survive everything its mother is put through in this film. A woman whose water has broken would be doubled over in debilitating pain every 5 to 3 minutes as her contractions worsen (that I know from personal experience). And didn't they have medical consultants on the set to teach them that C-sections are performed by cutting horizontally just above the mons pubis, not vertically up from the bellybutton? To top it all off, the way the cops behave is totally asinine. What would any cop do upon entering a place that looks like a slaughterhouse? He'd immediately call for back-up. Upon finding the suspect, he'd restrain her and search her. He'd NOT handcuff himself to the perp who's already in his car being brought in for questioning, and drag him along into the slaughterhouse. He'd NOT turn his back to allow the psycho to blow his brains out. He'd NOT leave a pregnant, bloodied victim on her own when the lights suddenly go out while he goes off to look for breaker box. Please, it's like watching retards play policemen! Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.

Inside was stuck inside my head for a long time, scary as hell
Let me start off by saying that i watched this film about a month ago, and it's still stuck in the back of my mind. It's got everyhting, it's gory, and scary as hell. I have recommended this film to many people, people need to see this masterpiece. The voice overs were great except for the police officer, just didn't sound convincing.

This film is worth every penny i spent, and i'll leave it that.