The Devil Inside Review

By: Robert Acosta

Cast:
Fernanda Andrade as Isabella Rossi
Suzan Crowley as Maria Rossi
Simon Quarterman as Ben
Evan Helmuth as David

Plot: The daughter of a possibly possessed mother travels across the world to see her detained mother, 20 years after her mother is charged with murder.

Review: A few months back, i'd say sometime in September, I was seeing trailers for a movie called The Devil Inside. It's not unusual to see a trailer for movie well before it comes out, but there were lots of trailers in lots of places for this movie and that is usually never a good sign. I liked the trailer. It seemed like a movie that would be eerie, creepy, intense, scary horror flick. Exorcism movies are usually very "out there" in content and lead to entertaining movies. However, a lot went wrong here.

First off, if you happen to do your research on a movie before you go see it, you'll notice that the movie is below the 90 minute mark. I find it very hard to take a movie seriously when it already seems like it could be rushed. Some movies do very well with getting to the point and not bullshitting around. However, a movie like this, you'd expect things to be spaced out a bit with a little more story involved. So many things that the daughter, Isabella, talks about, I would have really liked to see the whole story...or most of it.

Secondly, I understand that trailers are supposed to entice the viewers, the general public into seeing your movie. You have a minute or so to grab the viewers attention, get them to want more, and then hopefully pack the theater when your movie drops. However, there is no need to show everything that goes on in your movie. As far as I remember, only one "important" thing is not shown in the trailer. Everything else however is shown in the trailer, and that's never good.

If the trailer had not shown anything, or kept things to a minimum, the movie and its scares could have been really effective. But once you know what's going to happen, and you can pretty much see it coming from a mile away, the scares are gone. The whole purpose of the movie pretty much goes out the window.

Notice, I have not really gone into specifics about the movie. Why? There is absolutely no reason to. Once you see the trailer, you've seen the movie.

The Devil Inside had some potential. I had some hope for the movie. Didn't think it would be great per say, but a serviceable, paranormal movie. Instead, you had a movie with barely any scares, nothing that was "pushing the envelope" and an ending that will leave you wanting your money back. Nothing makes too much sense in this movie.

Rating: 1 out of 5