Inside (2007)
À l'intérieur (original title)

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.

Directors:

Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury

Writer:

Alexandre Bustillo (story)

Stars:

Béatrice Dalle, Alysson Paradis, Nathalie Roussel

5 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview:
Béatrice Dalle	...	The Woman
Alysson Paradis	...	Sarah
Nathalie Roussel	...	Louise
François-Régis Marchasson	...	Jean-Pierre
Jean-Baptiste Tabourin	...	Matthieu
Dominique Frot	...	The Nurse
Claude Lulé	...	The Doctor
Hyam Zaytoun	...	Policewoman
Tahar Rahim	...	Policeman #1
Emmanuel Guez	...	Policeman #2
Ludovic Berthillot	...	BAC Policeman #1
Emmanuel Lanzi	...	BAC Policeman #2
Nicolas Duvauchelle	...	BAC Policeman #3
Aymen Saïdi	...	Abdel

Storyline

Four months before Christmas, Sarah and Matthieu Scarangelo were in a car crash, of which Sarah and her unborn baby were the only survivors. On Christmas Eve, Sarah stays home alone, where she grieves her husband and prepares to go to the hospital the next morning for the delivery. As night falls, a woman knocks on Sarah's door asking to use the phone. When she refuses, the woman reveals that she knows Sarah and tries to force her way in. Sarah calls the police; they inspect the home and determine the woman has left, but promise to keep watch over Sarah through the night. The woman returns and tries to take Sarah's unborn child, but Sarah locks herself in the bathroom. The strange woman torments Sarah through the night and kills all who try help her.

---

Plot Keywords:

Night | Baby | Death | Bathroom | Christmas Eve | 

---

Genres:

Horror | Thriller

---

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong bloody violence, gruesome and disturbing content, and language

Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

13 June 2007 (France)

Also Known As:

Inside

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Box Office

Budget:

$3,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

La Fabrique de Films, BR Films, Canal+

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min 75 min (R-rated cut)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX DTS-ES

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Béatrice Dalle won the 2008 Fright Meter Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.

---

Goofs

When Sarah first sees La Femme lurking outside her house, she takes several photographs of her using her Digital SLR camera. In the following scene, Sarah is shown developing the photographs in a dark room as if they were shot with film.

---

Connections

Referenced in My Pure Joy (2011)
Referenced in Dialogue

---

Soundtracks

"Artic Love"
Written by François Eudes (as François-Eudes Chanfrault)
Editions Asphalt Duchess 2007

User Reviews

Uninvolving but superior gore-fest

'À l'intérieur' pulls off a surprising feat: it manages to take a concept that is, by its' very premise, provocative, and make it remarkably uninvolving. It performs this reverse alchemy by an unrelenting series of missteps, in both minor details and choices that the characters make, or don't make. Every time you get close to being sucked in by the action, you are suddenly ripped out of it by something that draws attention to the contrivance and implausibility.

Having said that, I still enjoyed the film due to the performance of the two leads and the remarkable, atmospheric direction. In fact, all of the actors were fine, doing their best with what they had to work with. In the end, this is a gore-fest, and at that the creators succeeded in spades.

I can't recommend this to anyone looking for an involving story or the kind of suspense that demands that you lose yourself in the film, but if you're looking for an 82 minute ride through a great looking charnel house, you could do a lot worse.