The Devil Inside
The Devil Inside

1989: Responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi, confessing to three brutal murders. The courts found her insane, but something else found her first - four powerful demons. Now, her daughter Isabella must face pure evil or forsake her soul!

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In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi confessing to three brutal murders. The courts found her insane - but something else found her first. Twenty years later, her daughter Isabella's search for answers led to an exorcism by two rogue priests revealing that her mother is possessed by four powerful demons. Now, Isabella must face pure evil or forsake her soul.


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...a found-footage movie whose third act remains missing.

—Clark Collis Entertainment Weekly

 
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  • 6

    ...a found-footage movie whose third act remains missing.

    —Clark Collis Entertainment Weekly

  • 6

    For most of the running time this demon pic amps up the blurry shots and loud booming screams to signify well, not much. Read more: http://uk.eonline.com/news/movie_reviews#ixzz1in2McNax

    —Peter Paras E!

  • 5

    ...generates a fair amount of suspense during sizable swaths of its familiar but serviceable exorcism-centric scenario.

    —Joe Leydon Variety

  • 4

    ...only inspires exasperation. It's basically one big offensive gesture, which, really, is what you should expect from a movie whose poster image mirrors the universal symbol for cunnilingus.

    —R. Kurt Oseland Slant Magazine

  • 3

    ...never gets off the ground, trotting out the same predictable twisting heads and psycho-babble without a whiff of originality or discernible visual flair. As a result, the would-be thriller proves as scary and unsettling as a slab of devil's food cake - only considerably less satisfying.

    —Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter

  • 3

    ...joins a long, woozy-camera parade of found-footage scare pictures...

    —Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune

  • 2

    ...too illogical and lame to do anything but make you mad.

    —Bill Gibron filmcritic.com

  • 2

    The scariest thing about The Devil Inside is that a major studio like Paramount Pictures, which is distributing it, may be able to squeeze more profit out of a tedious, tediously exhausted subgenre that was already creatively tapped out when The Blair Witch Project spooked audiences more than a decade ago.

    —Manohla Dargis New York Times

  • 2

    ...plays like a horror film conceived on graph paper.

    —Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times

  • 0

    The hilariously convoluted thriller contains all the elements for a wacky parody of exorcism movies, except a sense of humor about itself: The Devil Inside never acknowledges its innate ridiculousness, so the laughs are unintentional.

    —Nathan Rabin Onion AV Club

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The Devil Inside: New Teaser Poster and Chilling 911 Call

Posted on 2011-10-15 by BrentJS

Despite the fact that writer-director William Brent Bell (Stay Alive) had to go back into production this summer on his micro-budgeted horror movie, The Devil Inside, after having wrapped the shoot several months prior, Paramount Pictures actually moved up the movie's release date from Feb. 24 to Jan. 6.

We have yet to see any still images and the trailer isn't due to drop until next week, but Paramount has just released the first teaser poster and uploaded a chilling viral video to YouTube that is purported to be a real 911 call from a possessed woman named Maria Rossi who has just killed three people.

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Creepy First Trailer for The Devil Inside

Posted on 2011-10-18 by Ryan

Mere days ago, the teaser poster and a chilling viral video debuted for Paramount's upcoming horror movie, The Devil Inside, and, right on schedule, the first trailer has also arrived.

The horror movie follows a young woman named Isabella, who travels to Italy to visit her mother, who was locked away in a mental hospital in the country after killing three people during her own exorcism. To learn more about the nature of her mother's condition, Isabella takes part in a series of unauthorized exorcisms.

The Devil Inside is set for release early next year, the exact same day as Liongate's The Possession (formerly Dibbbuk Box), Deadline reports. The Possession follows a divorced couple (Kyra Sedgwick and Jeffrey Dean Morgan) whose child becomes obsessed with a wooden box haunted by a spirit that wants to devour its human host. It's up to you to decide which possession movie to watch on the unofficial "possession movie day," but only The Devil Inside has a trailer to watch (so far).

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First TV Spots: Contraband and The Devil Inside

Posted on 2011-12-02 by BrentJS

The first TV spots for a pair of movies opening in January recently aired and they have now been made available for viewing online.

The first movie, Contraband, is a remake of Icelandic writer-director Óskar Jónasson's 2008 thriller Reykjavík-Rotterdam and stars Mark Wahlberg as a reformed criminal who turns back to crime to protect his family. It was directed by Baltasar Kormákur, who starred in and produced the original movie, which went on to win five Edda Awards, including Director of the Year and Screenplay of the Year. The cast includes Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Foster, Caleb Landry Jones, Kate Beckinsale, J.K. Simmons and Lukas Haas.

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"No Soul is Safe" in First Preview Clip from The Devil Inside

Posted on 2011-12-10 by BrentJS

For those of you who would rather kick off the new year with a fright instead of a bang, consider writer-director William Brent Bell's (Stay Alive) new movie, The Devil Inside. The micro-budgeted supernatural horror movie was shot documentary-style, a la Paranormal Activity, and revolves around a young woman's (played by Fernanda Andrade) quest to discover what (literally) possessed her mother (Suzan Crowley) to kill three people during a botched exorcism more than twenty years prior.

Because it's a Paramount Insurge movie, the marketing campaign for The Devil Inside has been virtually non-existent, but a new preview clip has been released that offers more footage not seen in the trailer and TV spot. The chilling clip takes place in a church and shows a (presumably) possessed priest trying to drown a baby during a baptism. And, if the preview clip wasn't frightening enough for you, you can always go back and listen to that creepy viral 911 call that was released back in October once again.

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New Red Band Trailer for The Devil Inside

Posted on 2011-12-26 by BrentJS

Director David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — now in theaters — has been marketed by Columbia Pictures as "The Feel Bad Movie of Christmas," but it looks like Paramount Pictures is trying to make the case that writer-director William Brent Bell's (Stay Alive) new movie, The Devil Inside, should have that title. Even though the micro-budgeted supernatural horror movie won't hit theaters until the first week of January, the new Red Band trailer that was just released ends with a church choir rendition of the classic Christmas carol "Silent Night" over a montage of horrific imagery relating to the demonic possession subject matter of the movie.

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