The Devil Inside

leonidas83

Saw a trailer for this at the cinema and have to say it looks the best film concerning Exorcisms since the original. There's been a lot of duds concerning this type of film over the years but finally this one seems like it could give the original a run for its money or at the very least be somewhat good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyT7xMPurgw

Apologies if there is another thread on this film already

Otis Driftwood

The trailer for The Last Exorcism made it look excellent and it was tripe,likewise The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

Trailers are funnily enough designed to make the movie look attractive to ya know,fish in the movie going public.

leonidas83

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

The trailer for The Last Exorcism made it look excellent and it was tripe,likewise The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

Trailers are funnily enough designed to make the movie look attractive to ya know,fish in the movie going public.

No, remember seeing both of those trailers and thinking I have absolutely zero interest in going to see either of them and was right about them a while later when I saw them on DVD.

Everyone knows what trailers are designed to do but people are capable of making up their own minds about whether a film will be worth a look or not ya know

Otis Driftwood

It looks like exactly like the trailer for The Last Exorcism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NcYXzZCQsE

Contorted bodies,crawling walls,jumping towards the camera,"real" footage interspersed.

And for the record,the trailer does not make it look good imo,it makes it look like pretty much every exorcism movie of the last few years.

leonidas83

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

It looks like exactly like the trailer for The Last Exorcism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NcYXzZCQsE

Contorted bodies,crawling walls,jumping towards the camera,"real" footage interspersed.

And for the record,the trailer does not make it look good imo,it makes it look like pretty much every exorcism movie of the last few years.

ok your entitled to your opinion, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

There is in fact alot of differences between the two trailers, of course there's going to be similarities but I like the look of the new one alot more. Every exorcism film will feature some or alot of what you mentioned above, that doesnt mean they cant make a good one now can they

Fysh

"Every exorcism film will feature 'contorted bodies, crawling walls, jumping towards the camera, real footage interspersed'" really?

I would suggest that this is only the case if you have a very boring and limited view of how you can tell a story about exorcism.

I though the original Exorcist film was excellent, but any new film about possession or exorcism would be best off ignoring it and taking a radically new take on the idea. Why would I want to watch a mediocre rip-off of The Exorcist when I could just rewatch the original instead?

leonidas83

Fysh wrote: »

"Every exorcism film will feature 'contorted bodies, crawling walls, jumping towards the camera, real footage interspersed'" really?

I would suggest that this is only the case if you have a very boring and limited view of how you can tell a story about exorcism.

I though the original Exorcist film was excellent, but any new film about possession or exorcism would be best off ignoring it and taking a radically new take on the idea. Why would I want to watch a mediocre rip-off of The Exorcist when I could just rewatch the original instead?

I said some or alot of what was mentioned above, not all of if, try reading the post before you start jumping all over it, the film looks good, if you dont like it you know what u can do

Morag

Oh so it's not about a movie about Inxs and Michael Hutchence.

Cantona's Collars

Red Band trailer released on Digital Spy,seems to have a bit more than the average exorcism movies.

http://www.digitalspy.ie/movies/news/a357108/the-devil-inside-watch-the-terrifying-red-band-trailer.html

Fysh

It could be interesting - the opening segment and the scene in the church towards the end of the trailer suggest that there might be some new territory integrated into the film.

I do wish that the makers of exorcism films would drop the "based on true events" guff. It's about demonic possession, we're going to have to suspend a certain amount of disbelief before we get in the door. Trying to pretend a film like this is actually based on happened to a fella from two towns over is just stupid.

Sad Professor

It's not out here till March, but this film is getting an absolutely terrible response from audiences in the US. There's loads of stories of people booing, throwing things at the screen and demanding refunds. And yet the film has managed to make $35 million in its first weekend. Proof if ever was that marketing is the main reason films do well at the box office. Bad word of mouth will undoubtedly slow it down, but it'll be very interesting to see by how much.

OldeCinemaSoz

Sad Professor wrote: »

It's not out here till March, but this film is getting an absolutely terrible response from audiences in the US. There's loads of stories of people booing, throwing things at the screen and demanding refunds. And yet the film has managed to make $35 million in its first weekend. Proof if ever was that marketing is the main reason films do well at the box office. Bad word of mouth will undoubtedly slow it down, but it'll be very interesting to see by how much.

bad word of mouth will give me every reason in the world to catch it...

I didn't hear of this one until last night when i was looking for some amusement on the IMDB boards...

as usual i'm more intriged than ever!

Hart

Talked to a pal of mine in New York last night who has seen it. He's says it's beyond dreadful.

Cinema goers seem to be turing off it fast, at the weekend it was down 76.6% on it's opening week. That's a helluva drop...

I think that the negative response from cinema goers is down to the fact that the film doesn't have an ending. Toward the end of what would traditionally be the second act and after 75 minutes of building up to a pat off the film jsut ends with a title card reading that the investigation into events was never completed followed by a second card which tells the audience to visit a website and search for clues regarding the films ending. The film makers expect their paying audience to head home and browse online in order to finish the plot of the film they just paid 10 dollars to see.

It's easy to understand why film goers are so angry with the film and word of mouth regarding the cop out ending have pretty much sank any hope the film had of another massive weekend.

kryogen

Was in the cinema last night and saw a trailer for a film called, The Devil Inside

Looked alright but havent heard anything about it, wondering if anyone on here knows anything about it?

Its an exorcism film by the look of it, or at least that theme, a horror anyway.

From what I can gather from the trailer, a woman who is having an exorcism performed on her kills the 3 people in the room, then rings the police and tells them about it, she is shipped to a mental hospital in the vatican and her daughter, who was very young at the time is now an adult and is trying to find out if she is gonna go crazy, goes to see her mother, gets involved in exorcisms herself etc.

Then **** goes wrong, naturally.

Probably gonna be ****e but looked and I havent seen it mentioned here in the first 3 pages of threads so apologies if its already been talked about!

Sad Professor

Merged.

It's meant to be bad. Really really bad.

kryogen

Sad Professor wrote: »

Merged.

It's meant to be bad. Really really bad.

Haha yeah I just read a bit more about it!

Looks like an absolute stinker alright

OldeCinemaSoz

"Karrass!!! Your mother sucks SOCKS in Hell!!!"

An olde mate back when who snuck in actually
thought that was the line....

Anyhoo... I've got THE LAST EXORCISM lined up
on 3 for a Fiver along with REC and the Nick Cage
BAD LIEUTENANT....

A bit of viewing for the weekend.

I've a bit of a fondness for those possession flicks though.

Something I suppose of growing up in the '70s...

kryogen

I really enjoyed Bad Lieutenant, Cage is great in it

cavemeister

Before anyone goes to see this movie, beware the ending. Actually... Research the ending... This is the reason for the booing and riots in cinemas in America.

I'm not saying anything because I don't want to spoil it for you but be warned that is the laziest piece of tripe ever to come out of a production company.

krudler

i kinda want to see it just to see how bad it is, obviously not going to it in the cinema cos fcuk that, but it'd be funny to see if audiences here react like US ones have been once they realise they've been trolled by a movie thats less than 80 mins long and has no ending (spoilers in the youtube comments so open the link here if you care about spoiling a sh1t movie for yourself)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAgkNBd78J8

OldeCinemaSoz

kryogen wrote: »

I really enjoyed Bad Lieutenant, Cage is great in it

Just like James Woods in STRAW DOGS.

Despite what the other idiots think of it.

:rolleyes:

Skinfull

cavemeister wrote: »

Before anyone goes to see this movie, beware the ending. Actually... Research the ending... This is the reason for the booing and riots in cinemas in America.

I'm not saying anything because I don't want to spoil it for you but be warned that is the laziest piece of tripe ever to come out of a production company.

You've already said too much!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2_2DmkiVI

candy-gal1

Went to see this last friday, all i can sum it up with is meh tbh, very thown together, almost any of the even slightly scary bits were in the trailer already so was expected, and imho only had one bit that was at all one of those "jump in your seat moments", kind of.

where the priest is possessed and it all goes dark then light again and hes standing there behind them looking all evil etc

the ending was just like WTF, even though i was expecting it since reading this thread previous

Skinfull

Watched it today and its the most awful piece of crap! Terrible writing and acting and the cameraman seemed to be having a seizure ALL THE TIME!!!
Some moments it was like there were 2 cameras and it didn't make sense. There was nothing new in the possession moments, nothing scary about it other than the fact that they actually made it. Ugh.

branie

I saw it on Friday, and I actually enjoyed it.

PammyD

Went to see this and so wasnt impressed at all... Im jumpy at most films(lol) so yes i jumped the odd time but it was a crappy film over all.....

G_R

krudler wrote: »

i kinda want to see it just to see how bad it is, obviously not going to it in the cinema cos fcuk that, but it'd be funny to see if audiences here react like US ones have been once they realise they've been trolled by a movie thats less than 80 mins long and has no ending (spoilers in the youtube comments so open the link here if you care about spoiling a sh1t movie for yourself)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAgkNBd78J8

I kinda wanna go and see it based on this video.

I tend to enjoy truly awful films. I just laugh at them.

Max Power1

That was the worst piece of sh!t ever.

Thank fcuk ive the unlimited pass because that would have been a waste of a tenner!

BarackPyjama

An utterly, utterly dire piece of s**t of a movie. Just over an hour long and before we got anything resembling a decent ending or twist, a website address comes up telling the audience to go home and check out the rest online and then... credits. I wouldn't mind only there's no conclusion online! If ever you're going to feel ripped-off paying for a cinema ticket (as well as Coke and a popcorn) this is truly it.

Technocentral

Why don't people read the reviews before going to muck like this and Jack Carter (RTE News said Carter is the biggest loss in movie history, cost 200 million).I don't have the time, money or inclination to see shiite so I read reviews from trustworthy sources (Observer/Guardian) before going to the cinema.

Galvasean

Aw man this movie was so bad, but did manage to be unintentionally hilarious by times.

Deleted User wrote: »

I think that the negative response from cinema goers is down to the fact that the film doesn't have an ending. Toward the end of what would traditionally be the second act and after 75 minutes of building up to a pat off the film jsut ends with a title card reading that the investigation into events was never completed followed by a second card which tells the audience to visit a website and search for clues regarding the films ending.

Think they dropped that title card from the release over here. Can anyone else confirm as I may have missed it as I ran out of the cinema tearing my hair out.

Mickeroo

Technocentral wrote: »

Why don't people read the reviews before going to muck like this and Jack Carter (RTE News said Carter is the biggest loss in movie history, cost 200 million).I don't have the time, money or inclination to see shiite so I read reviews from trustworthy sources (Observer/Guardian) before going to the cinema.

Don't see what a financial loss has to do with the quality of film tbh, plenty reliable sources and reliable posters on here have said John Carter is worth going to see..I digress however...I get your point about shelling out money to see something like The Devil Inside though, completely universally panned, no excuse for shelling out cash to see it really.

FlashD

I intrigued as to the ending, why were crowds going crazy?

Can someone stick that up?

LuckyLloyd

Went to see it yesterday, and I didn't see a Title card before the credits.

I really wish this "found footage" rubbish would be dispensed with post haste. If this film was played straight up it would have been awful lot more enjoyable. The attempt at a 'documentary' was so annoying that it spoiled the effect of the exorcism scenes. Shakey camera, awkward pretensions of it being real life - enough already!

What could have been a passable horror formatted into an indefensible piece of rubbish unfortunately. Terrible ending of course.

Fysh

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

I really wish this "found footage" rubbish would be dispensed with post haste. If this film was played straight up it would have been awful lot more enjoyable. The attempt at a 'documentary' was so annoying that it spoiled the effect of the exorcism scenes. Shakey camera, awkward pretensions of it being real life - enough already!

The thing is, found footage stuff is cheap to make. Chronicle, Paranormal Activity, Devil Inside, Cloverfield ... all cheap to make, compared to the money they brought in. And that also means that if they bomb, the studio's not out by too much.

Like any technique, it can be used well or badly. Chronicle is probably the best found-footage film I've seen in the cinema, but bar none the best found-footage documentary I've seen is The Tunnel. It not only works narratively but it makes for a far better horror movie than most of the pap being released in cinemas lately.

Edited to add:

Anybody else see the TV ad they're running for the film now? It's like a reaction video, showing some complete idiot of a one basically gibbering and possibly wetting herself while watching the film. It might have worked if they hadn't also shown her boyfriend next to her laughing at the same scenes. Confirms my suspicion that this is a film to watch if what you want is the audiovisual equivalent of someone sneaking up on you and shouting "BOO!" loudly every now and again.

Kimbot

I have to say this film should have been brought out around the time Blair witch was out... i think it would have been right for about that time TBH.
Overall I was disappointed with it.... Built up to nothing really.

charlietheminxx

Yeah, it's the worst movie I've seen in years.

We didn't even get the title card ending

I felt like the movie was just getting going and BOOM - over.

chin_grin

Fysh wrote: »

Anybody else see the TV ad they're running for the film now? It's like a reaction video, showing some complete idiot of a one basically gibbering and possibly wetting herself while watching the film. It might have worked if they hadn't also shown her boyfriend next to her laughing at the same scenes. Confirms my suspicion that this is a film to watch if what you want is the audiovisual equivalent of someone sneaking up on you and shouting "BOO!" loudly every now and again.

Saw this ad the other night. It's a brave move by the marketers/advertisers if on the pan out shot she wasn't the only one looking like she was having an epileptic fit while everyone else was just sitting normally. She looks retarded and as a result it takes the intensity/horror of the film away (if there is any).

All these audience reaction trailers are the most stupid ideas to portray a film. "Oh it makes me writhe around in my seat like I've got crabs? Yeah I want to see this!"

Same with those 'interviews' after the film. <stares> "Ok, you're on!", "It was brilliant!", "Great, heres your twenty.".

I also read a while ago about the ending and what they did. For those of you who want to know what the website is and don't want to waste your money (I haven't watched the film, but the fact that EVERYONE is saying how terrible this is has to mean something!).

Here -

http://www.therossifiles.com/

Mickeroo

FlashD wrote: »

I intrigued as to the ending, why were crowds going crazy?

Can someone stick that up?

A few have said what it is earlier in the thread. I think it might be on youtube too.

Galvasean

Fysh wrote: »

Confirms my suspicion that this is a film to watch if what you want is the audiovisual equivalent of someone sneaking up on you and shouting "BOO!" loudly every now and again.

The only bit that scared me was

the dog barking at them

. Took me by complete surprise.

Fysh

Galvasean wrote: »

The only bit that scared me was

the dog barking at them

. Took me by complete surprise.

After reading the initial reviews I refuse to give it any money. Metatextually it's terrifying though, the bloody film has made an absotutely stonking return on investment so more crap films in this vein are sadly inevitable.

Galvasean

Fysh wrote: »

After reading the initial reviews I refuse to give it any money. Metatextually it's terrifying though, the bloody film has made an absotutely stonking return on investment so more crap films in this vein are sadly inevitable.

I went to see it with a friend who said when inviting me, "I hear this is ridiculously bad. We have to go see it!" Lucky for me I have an unlimited card so it was no great financial loss to me. Herself on the other hand...
I think it has made quite a decent chink of i's money from the "So bad it's fun!" crowd. We're ruining cinema aren't we?

Fysh

Galvasean wrote: »

I think it has made quite a decent chink of i's money from the "So bad it's fun!" crowd. We're ruining cinema aren't we?

STOP IT YA BASTIDS! :mad:;)

I do get the appeal of watching something terrible to laugh at it, but I don't see the point in spending money on doing so and wouldn't go out of my way to catch something crap. TDI sounds like something I might, possibly, check out on Netflix if I was really bored - but that's about as far as I'd go. I prefer to keep my cinema trips for films I'm likely to enjoy, which tends to mean I go to arthouse or independent cinemas at least as much as any of the bigger ones.

Sasquatch76

Eventually got around to seeing this yesterday. Jaysus it was shite! Worst film I've seen in quite a while. As Galvasean says, the only bit that made the audience jump was the

dog jumping up at them at the fence

.

Galvasean

The Devil Inside II: the Doggening

TerrorFirmer

I thought it was OK. Not brilliant, but entertaining enough to justify the time spent. Not too happy with the ending, but on the whole, would consider it decent.

Fysh

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

I thought it was OK. Not brilliant, but entertaining enough to justify the time spent. Not too happy with the ending, but on the whole, would consider it decent.

I don't mean this in a rude way, but anyone familiar with your viewing preferences should know that if even you can only say it's OK then there's a good chance most folks would think it's a bit of a stinker.

readyletsgo

Terrible film! Saw it with a friend two weeks ago.

Even the bit with the blind nun....

Nothing to do with the story, blink and you'll miss her

As others have said, the bit

with the dog barking, only bit that I jumped :eek:

The ending

a car crash, so bad its prob true to the story lol

Cant wait for the sequel(s) :P

Gandalph

Just after watching it, it was absolute pants. Deserves lower than the 3.9 rating on IMDB. Couldn't believe the ending, one of the worst I've ever seen haha

LH Pathe

Sounds like that Anthony Hopkins personality vehicle from a year ago. Apparently he gave it the working title Easy Money