Kattiera Nana
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Limerculer
A waste of 90 minutes of my life
Kirandeep Yoder
The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
TheLittleSongbird
Despite not being a fan at all overall of the found footage/mockumentary style, there are some good exceptions out there. While not an avid horror fan, though a long way from a detractor, there are some great examples and some great films based on the subject of exorcism (the king of them all still being 'The Exorcist').'The Devil Inside' however really fails to deliver. Did form my own opinion, though with a little knowledge of only a few reviews before watching, and watched with an open mind, actually wanting it to be good and be better than the slightly drab premise suggested. 'The Devil Inside' was just a shocker in almost every sense of the word, we are not talking about the type of film it is but the actual quality of the film.It's not entirely without redeeming merits, though the cons are far more numerous and significantly larger. The best performance comes from Suzan Crowley, who gives a heck of a chilling performance. Surprisingly also the contortionist effects were pretty unsettling.However, that is it for 'The Devil Inside's' good points. 'The Devil Inside' has such a drab look and further cheapened by the excessive and badly abused (even for this particular style of filming) shaky cam, which will make people nauseous and should come with a health warning for epileptics (speaking as one myself).Can't remember anything about the music, while the directing is lifelessly amateurish and the script is a shambles with far too much talk and too much emphasis on the science-versus-religion and faith-versus-scepticism, which really bogs down the atmosphere.No better news about the story or atmosphere either. The story is sluggish, increasingly derivative and predictable, with some unintentionally silly parts too, while the atmosphere in general is just too histrionic and there is next to nothing scary in a film already rather under-populated in the scare factor. Only Crowley and the contortionist effects offer any kind of that.Much has been said about that abruptly lazy cheat/cop-out of an ending and for very good reason. Crowley aside, the acting is very poor, with a lead performance from Fernanda Andrade that is both histrionic and somnambulist.All in all, a shocker in almost every way. 2/10 Bethany Cox
Casey Holloway
This movie had the full potential to be a movie GREATER than those like The Exorcist, or The Exorcism of Emily Rose as well!HOWEVER, the ending of this movie (SPOILER) was the worst ending of any movie I have ever seen! Even 5 more minutes of movie after the wreck would have been nice! Are they all dead? Did someone live through the wreck? Who did the demon transfer to after the wreck if they all died? A first responder, a cop? The list of questions could go on forever, and its been almost 3 years since the movie was made, so apparently there isn't going to be a sequel or they would have made it already! A tragic ending of a movie that could have been one of the greats!!
Rickting
A bland news story. A dull protagonist. Screeching. Washed out shots of mildly creepy looking buildings. A sleep inducing lecture on demons. A misty eyed nun. More screeching. Crosses. Exorcisms so boring they make The Tree Of Life look like a fast paced action epic. Various cameras which have broken zooms. Annoying possessed women doing gymnastics. Darkened areas. Cursing. A hospital. An asylum. A church. A school. Random demonic possessions. Exposition. Whining. Scares which consist of people screeching and contorting and...that's it. A stupid finale which makes no sense. A car crash which represents the movie perfectly. A web link. These are the elements that make up The Devil Inside, a lame, laughably awful and utterly worthless mess. After many awful found footage movies, we finally come to the perfect piece of evidence for opposers of the genre. This is surely, undeniably one of the worst movies in a genre full of god-awful films ever.There isn't one scary moment in The Devil Inside. All it is are cameras zooming around as possessed people screech, curse, do gymnastics and fly around. That's literally it, with intermissions of boring characters sitting around and explaining the plot. TDI may have made over a hundred times its budget at the box office but unfortunately it is less scary than a kiddy coaster at a LEGOLAND theme park. TDI is one of the most insultingly lazy films ever and absolutely no-one was trying. Every single person involved was about as good at their job as a tortoise is at winning a 100m sprint. It is a series of horror conventions, stripped to their minimum and devoid of any character or depth, pasted together. There is no kind of purpose for the Devil Inside to exist, as it fails in every single department. Even the most loyal horror fan will be unimpressed by this tedious mess and it just isn't scary at all. Likely the worst film of 2012, this is only 80 minutes but feels like 180. The worst found footage ever. And I've seen Paranormal Activity 4.0/10
patlightfoot
Well it beat Blair Witch by miles. I am not into horror films generally but this had me fooled at first, but I began to doubt when David tried to drown the baby in the font. He spoke in English, not Italian or Latin. Ahhh - but overall it had me completely questioning its contents of it. But held my interest. I don't believe in demon possession, and it cleverly suggested mental illness was the result of these so called possessions.Special effects were brilliant, a low budget movie I suspect. On the hire DVD it did not show the cast credits at first, and it kept stalling but I saw enough to see it was a fiction/documentary style movie.I think it was well done especially the woman bleeding on the bed and in the hospital. But when I look back on it, why would an American citizen be moved to a Vatican or Rome mental hospital? It do think they did a good job, if you like that sort of thing, and people's own doubts possibly frightened them subconsciously.