It’s hard to hold an argument with a true believer of ghosts. They see ‘dead people’ everywhere even if they’ve never had a single paranormal experience to talk about. So one would have thought, quite naturally, that The Devil Inside would be quite a catch for the horror movie fans.
Filmed in a documentary-kind of way, The Devil Inside sees a young woman traveling to Italy with a film crew to investigate her mother’s cause of insanity many years ago where she brutally murdered three people during an alleged exorcism. She meets two young priests who are experts in the field and they start to get to the bottom of the fact if the young girl’s mother was truly possessed or not.
If you remember watching The Blair Witch Project and going online to wonder if all of it ever happened or not, The Devil Inside doesn’t quite inspire you to do even that. And while there are extremely scary portions through the film when the two priests are trying their hands at exorcism, the film in a whole is not even as scary as the Evil Dead series.
The DVD comes with great print, especially if you come with low expectations. Oddly though, there are no special features that tell us more about the filmmaking process. Given that the makers went quite the distance to create a separate website and fake news on the woman who killed three people etc, one would have hoped for some special features. Well, even if the film releases in India, there just might not be enough takers. Incidentally, even the cover of the DVD has little or nothing to do with the film. Sad.
