The Devil Inside Reviews
We Got This Covered
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.
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| Original Score: 2/10
ScreenRant
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
CraveOnline
Nothing more than a tired, familiar and characterless genre installment with only the impressive contortions of Bonnie Morgan to recommend it.
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| Original Score: 3/10
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.
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| Original Score: 0/10
The National
horror that tries to shock you as many times as possible, rather than tell you a story.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Slant Magazine
Never are you really invested in any of this, as the movie is pervaded by lead-footed artificiality and the growing stink of crass marketing.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Boston Phoenix
[A] limp mockumentary.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Scotsman
Another abysmal horror movie based around "found" documentary footage.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Little White Lies
The Devil Inside is yet another dull found footage effort with nothing, bar a mad climax, to offer audiences.
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| Original Score: 2/5
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
If it's January, it must be low-grade horror season.
Top CriticDirector William Brent Bell (Stay Alive) and his co-writer Matthew Peterman offer way too much set-up for too little payoff.
The Devil Inside joins a long, woozy-camera parade of found-footage scare pictures, among them The Blair Witch Project, the Paranormal Activity films and certain wedding videos that won't go away.
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| Original Score: 1/4
HitFix
... an insidious kind of terrible movie, simply low-grade bad for most of its thankfully brief running time before offering up an ending so openly contemptuous of the audience as to feel like a prank.
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| Original Score: D
Boston Herald
"The Vatican doesn't endorse this film or its completion," are the first words to appear on the blank screen that begins this film. Having sat through it, I don't endorse it, either.
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| Original Score: D
CNNRadio
Welcome to the freak show. "The Devil Inside" has everything you would expect from an R-rated horror movie about demon possession: creepy demon voices, contorted bodies, bloody murders and priests who actually think they have a chance of defeating Satan.
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| Original Score: C-
FEARnet
One shudders to think of how many worthwhile horror films Paramount passed up to acquire this terribly drab junkpile.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Screen International
Takes two steadfast horror tropes - demonic possession and the gimmick of "found footage" - and does very, very little new with them.
