Toronto. Inside.

"Believe the hype on this one," advises Todd Brown at Twitch. "Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury's debut film is one of the harshest, most brutal and disturbing things to hit celluloid in recent years, an unrelenting cavalcade of pain and fear. It is an absolute bloodbath featuring some stunningly graphic imagery, imagery that shocks and chills to the core. It is also surprisingly classic in form, a film that nods to the masterful psychological thrillers of old and recognizes that true horror lies in the soul rather than outward behavior. Anchored by a pair of powerhouse performances from its female leads Inside is a film that will stick with you well beyond the final frame."

"[I]f you are looking for a good, old classic scare, one need look no further than Inside, the Rear Window cum href="http://www.greencine.com/webCatalog?id=133396">High Tension splatter flick that is timed so meticulously that one feels their neck will snap at any minute from the anxiety," writes Michael Lerman at indieWIRE.

"From Calvaire and Haute Tension to new arrivals like Frontiere(s) and À l'intérieur, I'm starting to think the French take their horror fare very seriously," writes Scott Weinberg at Cinematical. "Some may call it sick and others may call it shamelessly ugly garbage, but as someone who's seen hundreds of horror movies from every corner of the globe - I'm convinced that À l'intérieur is some sort of maniacal mini-masterpiece. Or if it is just 85 minutes of well-polished genre crap, then it's crap that had me cringing, cheering, clapping, howling and gaping slack-jawed at the screen."

"Tasteless in the extreme - including many 'kid in peril' shots from inside the womb - Inside shoots for the amped-up art-horror of Frenchman Alexandre Aja (Haute Tension) and its deliberately overwrought execution is as undeniably effective as it is sleazy and unconscionable," writes Scott Tobias at the AV Club.

Posted by dwhudson at September 18, 2007 10:01 PM