The Devil Inside

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The Devil Inside

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Released Jan 6, 2012

1h 23m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Twenty years after Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) murdered three people, her daughter, Isabella (Fernanda Andrade), seeks the truth about that terrible night. Isabella travels to an Italian hospital for the criminally insane -- where Maria is locked away -- to find out whether her mother is mentally ill or demonically possessed. With the help of two young exorcists (Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth), Isabella tries to cure Maria -- and engages four demons in a battle for her mother's soul.

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Critics Consensus

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

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Noah Berlatsky

The Atlantic

If The Devil Inside has any innovation to make to the exorcism film genre, it's iteration.

Aug 28, 2019

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Martyn Conterio

Little White Lies

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

Rated: 2/5

Mar 19, 2012

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William Thomas

Empire Magazine

Some found footage should really just stay lost.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 11, 2012

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

No better and no worse than the countless other possession-inspired found footage movies, even if its attempt at authenticity with a website plug at the end wasn't received as it was intended.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 9, 2025

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Certainly it is far from being the worst horror film ever made, but after getting through all the good and mediocre ones, is it really worth spending time on the bad ones too?

Rated: 2/10

Aug 8, 2021

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

The worst part of the film is its ending, an ending that certainly won't be revealed here but one that is such a let down.

Rated: 1.0/4.0

Sep 6, 2020

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Palmer C

So much better than the rating suggests. One of the best ever done. Especially since the budget was only $1m. Remarkable. An institution. $101 million at the box office doesn’t lie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/06/25

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Jason W

The potential was there, but it fell victim to the usual issues that "found footage" films fall into. Segments where you ask yourself, why are they filming, why is the footage so purposely shaky and filled with quick short zooms, and also how did this footage get rescued after all was said and done. I feel it would have been a little better if they discarded the unnecessary "found footage" aspect.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

04/06/25

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river

Don't know what people are so mad about. It was a decent film with a lot of attention to detail to make it seem like real found footage. At end I actually visited a made up website shown in the end. I like how it didn't show distorted humanoid as demons. Jumpscares are good and movie holds your attention till the very end.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/26/24

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Daniel G

Do you want to know how terrible this movie is? I'll give you a great example. I saw this when it came out in theatres in 2012. At the end of the movie, I yelled "I want my money back!" and everyone laughed.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/17/23

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Audience Member

One of the worst horror films ever made.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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Audience Member

es una pelicula que esta en la linea de lo meh y lo esta bien, la volveria a ver si, tiene pocas escenas de terror, viene siendo como un metraje encontrado, se podria decir que si es ideal para ver en halloween

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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William Brent Bell

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Isabella

Simon Quarterman

Ben

Evan Helmuth

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Suzan Crowley

Maria Rossi

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The Devil Inside: Official Clip - Rosalita's Exorcism Scary Scene

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The Devil Inside: Official Clip - Creepy Possessed Mother

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The Devil Inside: Official Clip - Baptism Drowning

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The Devil Inside: Official Clip - Death of The Possessed Priest

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The Devil Inside: Official Clip - The Devil Crashes The Car

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The Devil Inside: Official Clip - Maria's Exorcism

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The Devil Inside: Official Clip - The Crime Scene Scare

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The Devil Inside: Official Clip - The Hospital Possession

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The Devil Inside: Official Clip - The Possessed Priest

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The Devil Inside: Official Clip - Exorcist School

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Synopsis

Twenty years after Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) murdered three people, her daughter, Isabella (Fernanda Andrade), seeks the truth about that terrible night. Isabella travels to an Italian hospital for the criminally insane -- where Maria is locked away -- to find out whether her mother is mentally ill or demonically possessed. With the help of two young exorcists (Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth), Isabella tries to cure Maria -- and engages four demons in a battle for her mother's soul.

Director: William Brent Bell
Producer: Matthew Peterman, Morris Paulson
Screenwriter: William Brent Bell, Matthew Peterman
Distributor: Paramount Insurge
Production Co: Paramount, Prototype
Rating: R (Grisly Images|Disturbing Violent Content|Language|Some Sexual References)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 6, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 6, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $53.2M
Runtime: 1h 23m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS

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