Review of The Devil Inside (2012) by Horcrux2007 — 07 Apr 2015

I read on the very trusted source of Wikipedia that this movie is considered one of the worst horror movies ever made. While it wasn't necessarily good, The Devil Inside wasn't the huge failure I was expecting.

Despite a plot that's pretty difficult to follow, this movie does have some creepy moments. It never actually becomes anything particularly scary, but there are a couple of scenes that can get under your skin.

There are two exorcism scenes that are pretty entertaining to watch. The cast works decently well together even if their characters aren't completely fleshed out, but that obviously because of its criminally short running time.

I'm not kidding; this movie clocks in at 75 minutes. Another reason for its appalling length is because, strangely enough, the movie ends before the climax. There's no big "twist" that seems to pop up in every movie nowadays, there's no payoff for any of the conflicts presented in the film, and it ends in such an abrupt fashion that I swear, the editor must have accidentally taken the last 20 minutes off of this movie.

The sudden and unimaginably anticlimactic ending has garnered so much hate on the internet that it's regarded as one of the worst endings in film history, and to be honest, I can't find a more unsatisfying ending in any movie I've seen.

Other than the atrocious ending, there are a lot of conflicts that are dropped partway through the movie without any resolution, which is what makes the plot so difficult to follow. Even the primary conflict is dropped without any closure right after a vaguely interesting and creepy exorcism scene.

Even with its poor plot and shockingly bad ending, it's still not the biggest offender of this movie. The Devil Inside is, in one word, boring. Other than those few unsettling scenes, the movie is filled with ramblings of the main characters about demons, exorcisms, and the Catholic church.

I know I'm making this sound like The Devil Inside lives up to its title of one of the worst horror movies of all time, but you could do a lot worse than this.