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: #3656 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

INSIDE will turn your innards OUT!
I could only watch the first 31:13 minutes of this film. To that point, it was intensely suspenseful, atmospheric and creepy, marvelous setting for inpending mayhem. Afterwards, I'm told, it wins severed hands down, the award for the most use of blood and guts, ever. The five star rating comes from the reviews of family and friends who enjoyed it. It is subtitled, but even that won't deter you if you're a fan of 'slash then dash', 'cut then gut', horror.

She should have gone Outside
Plot in a nutshell- The night before a very-pregnant woman is scheduled to have her baby delivered, she gets a strange visit. Terror insues.

Entertaining but Sick. Started off great (really great) then kind of runs out of steam near the end and just becomes an excuse for a lot of gore. Plot begins to run paper thin in the last half hour. I'd say if it wasn't for the pure stupidity of the french police officers, "Inside" would have been a much better movie. Either way its well worth a watch for any fan of gore.
*"Inside" is a French flick with options for English subtitles as well as English dubbing. (The dubbing was pretty crappy just to warn you.)

Hardcore and unsettling.........
This is a really good horror flick from France. Good acting, story and effects add it up for me. I watch a lot of horror and have a huge collection so it's not easy to unsettle me but this did a pretty good job. Definetly worth a look.