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The Devil Inside (2012)

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Average Rating: 2.7/10
Reviews Counted: 80
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 75

The Devil Inside is a cheap, choppy unscary mess, featuring one of the worst endings in recent memory.

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Average Rating: 2.2/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 14

The Devil Inside is a cheap, choppy unscary mess, featuring one of the worst endings in recent memory.

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Average Rating: 2.1/5
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In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) confessing that she had brutally killed three people. 20 years later, her daughter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) seeks to understand the truth about what happened that night. She travels to the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Italy where her mother has been locked away to determine if her mother is mentally ill or demonically possessed. When she recruits two young exorcists (Simon Quarterman and

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William Brent Bell, Matthew Peterman

May 15, 2012

$53.2M

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All Critics (83) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (75)

From the amateur acting, writing and directing to an ending that is shocking only in its stupidity, The Devil Inside will make you puke for all the wrong reasons.

January 13, 2012 Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | Comment (1)
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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It stumbles along to what may arguably be the most abrupt, nonsensical ending since Luis Bunuel stopped slicing cows' eyes for the sake of surrealism.

January 10, 2012 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comments (4)
Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
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"The Devil Inside'' usefully reminds us how little it takes to make some people scream in a crowded movie theater.

January 7, 2012 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comments (6)
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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The Devil Inside's biggest shock arrives when it abruptly ends - just as it hits its stride.

January 7, 2012 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comments (3)
Clark Collis
Entertainment Weekly
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People of the world: If you find some footage, leave it be. You will likely be doing the rest of us a huge favor.

January 7, 2012 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comments (4)
Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times
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Whatever possessed Bell & Co. to turn a slow-burning creepfest into a frenzied freak show of multiple exorcisms (including one in a moving car), the devil only knows.

January 6, 2012 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment (1)
Matt Singer
Time Out New York
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A stupid, boring, and inane exorcise in bargain basement horror...

March 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

The Devil Inside is a con job; a fraud of a movie that leads audiences to the singularly most unsatisfying ending to a movie I've seen in my 13 years as a movie critic.

March 1, 2013 Full Review Source: We Got This Covered
Sean Kernan
We Got This Covered

An exposition-heavy opening act and an abrupt lack of closure may leave moviegoers feeling underserved by The Devil Inside's few genuinely scary moments.

October 1, 2012 Full Review Source: ScreenRant
Ben Kendrick
ScreenRant

horror that tries to shock you as many times as possible, rather than tell you a story.

August 30, 2012 Full Review Source: The National
James Luxford
The National

Nothing more than a tired, familiar and characterless genre installment with only the impressive contortions of Bonnie Morgan to recommend it.

August 22, 2012 Full Review Source: CraveOnline
William Bibbiani
CraveOnline

A terribly written, dubious slice of unscary found footage spiritual horror that ends with an ellipsis, not a period.

May 17, 2012 Full Review Source: IGN DVD
R. L. Shaffer
IGN DVD

Despite a clever - if not particularly original - idea, this pseudo-documentary horror movie is let down by an immensely frustrating ending and some less than convincing performances.

April 2, 2012 Full Review Source: Screenwize
Simon Weaving
Screenwize

If it's January, it must be low-grade horror season.

March 23, 2012 Full Review Source: McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Roger Moore
McClatchy-Tribune News Service

And in a wretched attempt to make this contrivance 'real', they resort to endless shaking of the camera. (You would love to shake them!) The only possession I was looking for in this devilish drivel was the possession of any kind of filmmaking talent.

March 22, 2012 Full Review Source: UTV
Brian Henry Martin
UTV

Just terrible.

March 21, 2012 Full Review Source: Birmingham Post | Comments (4)
Graham Young
Birmingham Post

A run-of-the-mill exorcism movie hobbled by its own hype and a divisive ending.

March 19, 2012 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

The Devil Inside is yet another dull found footage effort with nothing, bar a mad climax, to offer audiences.

March 19, 2012 Full Review Source: Little White Lies
Martyn Conterio
Little White Lies

Another abysmal horror movie based around "found" documentary footage.

March 19, 2012 Full Review Source: Scotsman
Siobhan Synnot
Scotsman

The Devil Inside has the occasional creepy moment but it's let down by a patchy script and some uneven performances.

March 17, 2012 Full Review Source: ViewLondon
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Exorcism horror gets the clichéd shaky-camera treatment in this chiller...

March 15, 2012 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK]
Mark Adams
Daily Mirror [UK]

If you are a novice this kind of material is suitably spooky. To the veteran, less so.

March 13, 2012 Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
Bruce Bennett
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

Some found footage should really just stay lost.

March 11, 2012 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
William Thomas
Empire Magazine
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What a God-awful pile of crap this was. And that's coming from a huge fan of mockumentary/found footage films. The Devil Inside follows a a young woman trying to discover why her mum killed three people during an exorcism. She teams up with two rogue priests that perform exorcisms outside of the church's jurisdiction. What makes this film so bad? Mostly it's how unconvincing it is as a documentary. Why bother with this facade if you are completely moronic when it comes to documentaries? WIthin the first 20 minutes we see a number of instances that break the film's own rules. First of all the girl starts asking about the cameras in the car. No documentary would include this moment, it's just an example of a fake documentary reminding you of what it's supposed to be. Next, a doctor walks down a doctor sneaks up on the protagonist with no sounds of footsteps, a second later he starts walking and yes, we hear footsteps again. Then we have a set-up in a room where we see CCTV and no cameraman, and suddenly footage from the cameraman's perspective. Is he invisible? Does he run in and out of the room? Hell if I know. It gets no better with the awful performances and idiotic characters. They act as though this is a normal scripted narrative, and forget to be real. I'm guessing zero amount of improvisation went into this film. Later we also see blood splat on the camera lens and then it vanishes. It isn't wiped away, it just disappears. Finally we get to the end. Well, actually we don't. There is no end to this film. It just finishes and gives you a website link to "read up on the case". Would you like to do that once you've wasted your money? No, didn't think so. Make sure this film dies a horrible and painful death. It truly is disgusting, and doesn't even bother to try and entertain. When the most enjoyable part of the movie involves the attempted drowning of a baby and the audience wishes they were the baby, then you don't deserve to make films.
July 16, 2012
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Luke Baldock

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I heard all about The Devil Inside earlier this year, when supposedly midnight screening audiences were so incensed that they practically became a riotous mob, throwing items at the screen, loudly booing, some even destroying theater equipment. If that doesn?t sell this movie, then I don?t know what will. I wasn?t expecting much from this faux documentary about one pretty girl?s (Fernanda Andrade) search for her crazy mom who may or may not be possessed by demons. She enlists the help of two exorcists and a camera crew and goes searching for answers. Never mind that the movie is absent any scares outside the sudden jump variety, ignore the empty characters and nonsensical plotting and poor pacing and choppy editing, as well as some bad Italian accents, and let?s get down to what makes this movie so notorious ? the ending. Just when it appears that The Devil Inside is gearing up for a climactic showdown between good and evil, just when it seems like the movie is finally getting somewhere, it ends in the most abrupt, ludicrous fashion (note to self: when transporting possessed people, stow them away in the trunk). You?re left dumbstruck, shocked that the filmmakers cheated you out of an ending. It?s a nonsensical and cheap thing to do, and I can understand why it inflamed audiences (it still made over $50 million, so I think the filmmakers are feeling fine). Only those easily spooked by demonic possession would find this movie scary. Everyone else will just find it upsetting, not because of its content, but because of its lack of a workable conclusion.

Nate's Grade: D+
June 21, 2012
boxman
Nate Zoebl

Super Reviewer

The Devil Inside Quotes

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    1. Maria Rossi: Your God wants what it cannot have.
    – Submitted by Mimo? V?echnozp?vovi? K (9 months ago)
    1. Ben: Who are you? [scared]
    2. Isabella Rossi: You know me... everyone knows me. [possessed voice]
    – Submitted by Harald M (9 months ago)
    1. Maria Rossi: Three people.
    2. Maria Rossi: Three people are dead.
    3. Maria Rossi: I... I killed them.
    – Submitted by Eilish M (14 months ago)
    1. Maria Rossi: Connect the Cuts.
    – Submitted by Rocky F (14 months ago)
    1. Maria Rossi: It's against god's will you know.
    – Submitted by Emily C (14 months ago)
    1. David: My ass is bleeding, my ass is bleeding!
    – Submitted by Tyler D (16 months ago)

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