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.

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Plot Keywords:

baby | night | child | hospital | death | 

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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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

In the scene where the three policemen come check on Sarah, you can see to the left end of the screen the house number, it's 666.

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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.

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Connections

Referenced in My Pure Joy (2011)

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Soundtracks

"Memories part i, ii & iii"
Written by François Eudes (as François-Eudes Chanfrault)
Editions Asphalt Duchess 2007

User Reviews

À L'Intérieur - the geometry of a microbudget wonder!

The best reassurance that the Hellraiser remake is in good hands, is actually watching Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury's first movie. Once the credits roll, it becomes very clear why the team behind À L'Intérieur comes with Clive Barker's seal of approval.

The signs were on the wall. If Haute Tension and Scheitan were not enough proof that France is the epicentre of euro horror right now, this one just hammers the point home effortlessly. Taking a very simple premise (pregnant woman attacked by maniac woman in her house), the same awareness of scope and budget that made Saw effective, GALLONS of blood and a European flair for atmosphere, À L'Intérieur is simultaneously emotionally draining and bruising. The story takes place inside a house and that's it. It's more like three rooms actually. Very straight-forward and simple. That's called budget-awareness Asylum. And yes, it's very short too, clocking at a measly 78 minutes (5 of which are the credits). But, frankly, it couldn't have been anymore. It was enough to leave me exhausted.

There are easily more gory or more disturbing movies out there, but I can say that À L'Intérieur left me satisfied in both departments. There's something disturbing about pregnant women in peril and combined with scissors, exploding heads, custom built flame throwers and stabbing in the balls, it's gore heaven with the occasional cringe-worthy moment.

The violence is relentless and numbing. The splatter, of the same spraying variety that made Haute Tension's first half so beautiful. A particular scene of blood spraying across a wall would make Dario Argento and fans of Tenebre proud. Although, unlike HT, there are no gimmicks and ridiculous twists here. What makes À L'Intérieur so effective by comparison is that the violence piles up and leads to a climactic finale. And the final image is haunting beyond words...

Some people might be eager to dismiss it as torture porn, a hack term often thrown around these days. It might be so. But unlike rubbish like Hostel, it's packed with atmosphere, tension and has its heart set in all the right places. In the end of the day it's a horror movie. If some people want their horror watered-down, harmless and PG-13, the big studios will have something in store for them. À L'Intérieur is for the rest of us blood-hounds.

Anyways, grab it if you can find it. It just goes to show what you can do with a relatively small budget and DV technology.