The Devil Inside - film review - spoiler alert

So, I've just been to see 'The Devil Inside', and what a big steaming pile of disappointment that was. Now, I already knew before going to see it what I was in for. Just another one of those stupid Exorcist films that get released every so often and I also sort of had an inkling, that this one, would be just as bad as the last one I had seen (The Last Exorcism). Nevertheless I went to see it just because horror films are fun to see in the cinema with all the unnecessary screaming and flailing of popcorn.

It started off as your typical 'found footage' films with a bit of unnecessary banter and a small bit of history of the characters and of course in case we hadn't seen it before, some history on the devil and exorcisms. Fine you need to put that in because some people mightn't have seen the last twenty exorcism movies.

So yes, we do get to like the character of Isabella, sort of, and we feel for her because she is basically an orphan because her mother is demented. we get that. Then the camera man character IS THE EXACT SAME AS ANY OTHER CAMERA MAN ON ANY OF THESE TYPES OF FILMS. Hes annoying and arrogant and basically doesn't give a shit. The two priests are basically portrayed as vigilantes and of course there's weak one and a strong one and ooh the church is BAAD! Fine I enjoy that because I don't like church but still, come on, too much of that is boring.

It's set in Italy and I found it kind of racist.. well maybe not racist but it showed the Italian people as being very uncaring towards everyone and as if they hated the foreign Americans coming into their country and trying to figure out something that they have a hold of or something. It really never escapes the Americans when they make a movie, that everything is about them and how good and caring and useful their country is. 'We yanks are the heroes' all the frigin time even if they don't succeed they always try to. So Italians are all distant and don't give a shit whereas the protagonists are just trying to save the world. Good for them!

Inevitably they perform exorcisms with the cameras watching. those parts in the film are fun. frightening for some people. Good effects and I have to say very good acting. The characters are all very convincingly frightened. first off they do an exorcism on someone the main character doesn't know. thats fun and creepy. Then they exorcise the mother and it seems then that the 4 evil spirits that are in the mother are 'transfered' to the other characters. Now i thought this was a kind of cool idea where they had so much potential to muck around with different people being possessed. For the end of the film I thought that they could have come up with some kind of back story for the English priest and voiced it. Instead all they said was that 'you wanted your uncle dead'. Now this could mean one of many things and It would have been a great thing to elaborate on to make the ending good. They could have said his uncle was possessed, the possession they were dealing with was his uncle, he himself was possessed and his uncle tried to excorsise him, he still is possessed... I don't know something fun and different, they could have had him take over Italy for all I care and it would have made for a better ending. But I suppose they didn't want to make it too un-realistic because they were still stuck on the idea of the whole 'found footage' thing. But the un clarity just didn't work in the case of this film.

I have to say I really did enjoy the film. It was boring at parts but I laughed and my brain was working all the time thinking of different ways that it could end. But because I had heard that there was a crappy ending I was always thinking ''oh they're just gonna end it now and I'll be disappointed''. Throughout the movie I was thinking that and also thinking of all the fun and cool or even stylish ways they could end it. BUT NO. they ended it with a car crash and no proper explanation and thought it was alright to leave it like that. Gobshites. They had potential there to do quite a lot because of the stories they subtly brought up and also because of they're good use of special effects, but no, they decided it was better to ruin their ending. But what can I say, they have already made so much money in the box office that, I think, they know what they're doing. With all the terrible reviews that they're getting I think maybe people like me are going to see the movie so they can prove the reviews wrong. But to be honest. This time the reviews are right. WORT ENDING EVERRRR!