Rating of
1/4
Review: The Devil Inside
MikePA - wrote on 08/21/12
You wanna see low-rent horror filmmaking? Check out The Devil Inside, a movie that starts off promising, but falls apart after the first twenty minutes due to an overdose of "found-footage" style bullsh*t and inconsistent pacing. This is a boring movie. Flat-out. Besides a moment or two that's somewhat interesting, The Devil Inside has almost nothing to offer the unfortunate viewer who has to spend the longest 82 minutes of their life sitting through it. We see about four exorcisms in the film, and not one of them beat a single pulse. They're not remotely scary or disturbing. What I think is disturbing is that this film made it through pre-production. Here is a movie trying to sell itself as being horror, yet there isn't a moment of terror or suspense to be found. It honestly upsets me that they begin with a premise that's somewhat interesting, then effortlessly executes it without delivering a single scare. Structurally, the movie is a flop. It begins with interesting ideas about a woman and a cameraman who go to Rome to create a documentary about the woman's mother, who is being possessed by a demon. But it descends into an idiotic drama, putting the story about the possessed mother aside as if it's a useless side-story, and focuses on the two priests and the possessed woman's daughter as if they actually have some sort of background or development. These characters are meaningless. I would've marginally enjoyed the film if it was remotely disturbing or suspenseful, but it wasn't. It's boring! When that despicable abrubt ending comes along, it just proves that not much effot was put into this film. It's an ending that raises a question or two, but you wouldn't care because the whole journey there is nothing but a boring mess.
1/4
