The last time Isabella saw her mother, it was back in 1989 when she was still a little girl and Maria was arrested for brutally killing three people who were trying to perform an exorcism on her. But with no stars and a dreary release date, The Devil Inside will probably be a distant commercial memory by the time Underworld Awakening hits theatres in two weeks.Īt first, The Devil Inside seems potentially promising, presenting itself as a documentary made by Michael (Ionut Grama) who is chronicling Isabella’s (Fernanda Andrade) journey from America to Italy to make contact with her mother Maria (Suzan Crowley). Opening in North America on January 6 before slowly making its way across the globe, this Paramount offering would love to match (or better) the box office performance of another found-footage supernatural horror flick, The Last Exorcism, which garnered about $68m worldwide. The Devil Inside feels mostly like a pale imitation, a meagre carbon copy, of the movies whose success it’s trying to emulate. Masquerading as a documentary about a young woman trying to get to the bottom of her murderous mother’s mysterious exile to a Vatican mental institution, this would-be chiller from director/co-writer/co-editor William Brent Bell is suitably intriguing in its early stretches before quickly becoming bedevilled by genre clichés. The Devil Inside takes two steadfast horror tropes – demonic possession and the gimmick of “found footage” – and does very, very little new with them.
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