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"Inside" is an intense piece of French horror




Think of a really effed-up version of home alone, like if instead of Chris Columbo it was directed by a serial killer. Whatever you’re imagining is still probably a bit tamer than this following film but, probably close enough.

“Inside” is a new wave French extremity film that follows a woman named Sarah, who recently lost her husband in a car crash, with her being the only survivor. Now it’s Christmas Eve and her baby is due any minute, when a woman arrives at her doorstep and ultimately breaks into her house wielding a pair of scissors, and it’s up to Sarah to save herself.


The French extremity movement is known for its intensity and this film is no different, it’s 83 minutes straight of gore and scenes that will never let you look at scissors the same again. Béatrice Dalle plays the attacker in such a way that I’m a little scared of her now, her movements alone are terrifying and so calculated. Dalle’s character is focused on obtaining this, seemingly strangers, baby, and she’s so bent on it we start to wonder what made her choose Sarah in the first place. We know nothing about her character or how she even knows Sarah, just that she’s presumably been stalking her and wants the child for her own.

Although this film gets written off a torture porn, I disagree with the title. Too much emotion and substance were put into this for me to really see it as torture porn. It’s a claustrophobic Gorey film, but I was actually interested in the story and the characters themselves. Sarah and her attacker are fascinating characters to watch, as her attacker takes on a typically male dominated role as we typically think of men attacking women in films like this. There are real horror stories of pregnant women being attacked by other women in hope of gaining their unborn child, so there is a real fear in this movie that makes it effective.


Although the twist isn’t really as good as it could have been, it still makes sense, which I'll always prefer to a twist that tries too hard to be profound or confusing but really just ends up being stupid. My real gripe with this movie is that it has the ugliest CGI in utero fetus, like genuinely one of the worst. The CGI fetus is atrocious and used well over one time too many.


So, if you can stomach the gore and the ugly fetus, I highly recommend this film. It’s intense and claustrophobic, everything that makes a good splatter flick. But if you're squeamish or just not into gore, maybe you should pass on it.

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