Wow, you have to grant that this is a real decent horror debut from France. "A l interieur" is a really strange mixture of a classic slasher movie with thriller elements. In some ways it reminded me of "High Tension"... the bleak colors, the female main actors and the raw violence. But this one takes it to another level... some scenes were pretty sick with bizarre fountains of blood spraying and you get a home made c-section without anesthesia thrown in to top it off. Now thats not all... the atmosphere of this movie is damn tense so this is no splattermovie by any means. Plotwise, well... A pregnant woman survives a car crash, loses her husband but is about to give birth to her baby when suddenly a strange woman stalks her and breaks into her house. From here on the whole plot is set in the small house where she hides in the bathroom from the maniac who wants to steal her child. Unexpected family members and cops all end up in pools of their own blood and gorehounds will be happy with this one for sure. Anyway I was expecting quite something since the obscure maniac seems to be connected somehow. But when the movie exposes the connection it seems like dropped in after a long tension build up... and its really lame. In the end the movie loses itself in gore and gets pretty stupid. The lobotomized zombie guy could have been so creepy but WTF is the crazy living room scene supposed to mean? In the last 15 Minutes a lot of things seem random... this and the closing is just about what really dropped the bar for "A l interieur" after a real strong opening. So to keep it short... this is a damn bloody, sick and tense movie with some real nice cinematography and a minimalistic creepy score. But the plot is absolutely stupid... I wish they had worked that one out and we would have another french horror highlight. This way its impressively gory and raw but thats about it. With a plot like Hellraiser at his hands I am interested in Bustillo's result anyways.
Review of Inside
