Case Study

The Devil Inside

^The Devil Inside - Trailer^

- The Devil Inside is a horror film about demonic possession; In Italy, a woman becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism.

- The director and writer of the film was William Brent Bell. It stars Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth and Suzan Crowley. Matthew Peterman and William Brent Bell first came up with the idea for the movie when they read an article about the Vatican starting a school for exorcism.

- The ingredients for a horror film that serves up its fair share of scares are all inside this effort. There's Rome, there're demonic possessions, there's creepy sound effects and shadow and light play, jump scares, quick cuts, although given that it's of the found footage genre no complains can be made about the jerky and shaky camera-work that could get a little bit nauseating.

- It slowly releases the actual story line which is brilliant because it keeps the audience interested. However, it was slated by critics because of its awful ending. no real explanation is given nor a decent closure to the film, it just, ends.

- There are a couple of open, unresolved subplots that have opened the doors for prequels and sequels to happen. For instance, the back-story of Ben(Simon Quarterman) was kept very ambiguous, as is Isabella's(Fernando Andrade), both having done something that could either be revealed to be more than meets the eye, or expanded for a little bit more depth.

- The build up towards the final act was great in some ways, although it got a reaction opposite of what it expected to be rewarded for having the guts to be different, pulling the plug and denying everyone a climatic battle to the finish.