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The Devil Inside

Play trailer 2:17 Poster for The Devil Inside R Released Jan 6, 2012 1h 23m Horror Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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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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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 Full Review 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 Full Review William Thomas Empire Magazine Some found footage should really just stay lost. Rated: 2/5 Mar 11, 2012 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews An increasingly unwatchable found-footage horror flick... Rated: 1/4 Jul 11, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member One of the worst horror films ever made. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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