The Devil Inside

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The Devil Inside

R

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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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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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

An increasingly unwatchable found-footage horror flick...

Rated: 1/4

Jul 11, 2020

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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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Audience Member

I groaned when the movie started and I saw it was a fake documentary. But it's what my husband chose to put on. There were a few mildly interesting moments. I was annoyed by the misinformation of unbaptized babies going to hell. The Magisterium used to hold that such babies ended up in limbo (not hell), but this changed with the Second Vatican Council. The 1992 Catechism teaches that unbaptized babies are left to the mercy of God. The current understanding is that babies—whether baptized or not—-go to Heaven. And then we have the terrible, abrupt ending and the instruction to seek more information at the given website. So. Bad. It's just as bad as waking up and seeing it was all a dream. Advice: don't watch this drivel.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Audience Member

RE the ending, everyone here moaning about it like it should have been happy rainbows before the credits. Sorry but spoiler alert to your life which will have the same ending as this movie - everyone including you DIES.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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William Brent Bell

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Fernanda Andrade

Isabella

Simon Quarterman

Ben

Evan Helmuth

David

Suzan Crowley

Maria Rossi

Ionut Grama

Michael

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

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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: Prototype, Paramount
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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