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Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Release : | 2008 |
Rating : | 6.7 |
Studio : | La Fabrique de Films, BR Films, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Assistant Art Director, |
Cast : | Alysson Paradis Béatrice Dalle Nathalie Roussel François-Régis Marchasson Jean-Baptiste Tabourin |
Genre : | Horror |
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Really Surprised!
Did you people see the same film I saw?
This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
I saw in many reviews that people don't know how La Femme enters the house when it's fully locked. My advice is (if you watch the 82min version) to look behind Sarah when she's showing the photos to the police. Between 23:35 and 23:37 we could see how La Femme enters freely through the front door.
There a few things wrong with this movie that have schlock elements that if they had been fixed or handled differently would have propelled this film to greatness. SPOILER ALERT: 1) First Issue is the accent music playing during certain violent scenes. It sounds kitchsy - almost like something Tarantino would think would be cool to play when it would have been far more effective minus these moments. 2) The audio separation from the 1st floor and the 2nd floor seemed hard to believe. Everything that went on on each floor seemed to be completely isolated in regards to audio. The inability for anyone to readily hear what's going on upstairs or downstairs on multiple occasions stretches believability. 3) I find it hard to believe the remaining cop didn't call for backup once his partner got shot from the car. This is difficult for me to get over. 4) The face burn at the end didn't seem quite to take as well as it should. This woman would have been in insane pain and probably unable to see period. Also the fact that her head didn't snap back from the flame is a bit weird - normal human reactions would be to snap your head back from the flame. 5) The "prisoner" in the cop car tags along via handcuffs and the cop gives the guy a gun? Also - considering a life/death situation - that would be gross negligence on the part of this cop to bring this arrested dude into this situation. Not too believable - the arrested guy is there simply to be another victim. Besides all of these problems - I somewhat enjoyed this. I feel that if they had cleaned up a few of these issues - this movie could have gone from half schlock / half Funny Games to a full on serious movie. Unfortunately I had to suspend my belief on multiple occasions that ultimately left me with somewhat indifferent. Bleak ending is good though.
Horror is such an abused genre, they need to regulate people who make movies so trash like this is never ever released even in a room of 3 people and a lizard on the wall and a cockroach on the floor.For any kind of horror to work, there to has be some sort of tension built in - either within the interplay of characters, their relationships, or the atmosphere, and what I believe is most important - a plausible human character one can relate to.You can be bloody sure this movie has none of these. Nope. Not even close. What we get are dense characters that are so clichéd you have seen in 99 other equally pointless so-called horror movies made by some dumb guy with a cheap camera in tow he got as a wedding gift or something.The main character (the pregnant woman whose name I don't care to know) is so revolting in her utter disdain for the people around her, you just want her to die within the first 15 minutes anyway. Which frikkin' human being treats everyone like trash and expects to be treated with sympathy? And the dumbass twit causes the deaths of everyone around her in the most brutal and sickening ways imaginable. Violence for violence's sake is cheap, and frankly, the makers of this movie should be prosecuted for inflicting this piece of celluloid misery on us.And of course the movie tries to redeem itself with some stupid babble clearly aimed at tugging at the heartstrings. But by then, you clearly don't give a rat's smelly behind. One only wishes Inside never saw the inside of any projector room, leave alone a theatre.
This is a movie about every mother's worst nightmare; the fear of having your baby taken from you. A relatively taboo subject, that get's tackled masterfully in this flick. I was thoroughly surprised at how intense and beautiful this movie was, given that it largely takes place inside a house. This film is disturbing, violent and bloody but it isn't without artistic value. This is extreme art house cinema, with lots of symbolism.The high- and low-key settings is used beautifully and really draws in the viewer and encourages you to think about what you see, while forcing you to concentrate about every scene. The colors are used so excellently, so subtlety and yet not so subtlety if you know about movie symbolism. It directly affects your mood and sets the tone perfectly, along with the intense and sad music. This is a movie, that makes you feel something that you don't want to feel, but that it reminds you, that you are alive. Even though I didn't understand a word they said (watched it without subtitles), I understood everything as it unfolded right before my eyes. That is no easy task to accomplish for a movie, spoken in a language you do not understand. After waiting many years to watch this film, simply because I thought the plot sounded incredibly generic, my only regret is that I can't unwatch it. Not that I thought it was too extreme, but simply because I haven't watched a movie yet that holds up to this amount of artistic value, and certainly not in the horror genre. I have watched a few art house cinema, but I thought they were boring. I have yet to watch any of the other movies from the New French Extremism, but I can't wait to get started. This is not a movie for the faint of heart or pregnant women. But if you like extreme, thought provoking horror and films, that isn't extreme just for the sake of controversy, then you're gonna love this. I will definitely buy this movie to add to my collection sometime soon.