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There's a lot of downtime in which to consider issues like this in The Devil Inside, a film co-written and directed by William Brent Bell (Stay Alive) that obviously aims for the same lower-budget found footage niche as the Paranormal Activity franchise.
Ripping off The Exorcist while adding the "found footage" scam from the Paranormal Activity franchise, The Devil Inside manages not only to scrape the barrel's bottom but to drill a hole in said bottom and funnel deeper into the scum.
Speaking with co-writer and director William Brent Bell about The Devil Inside, he explained they were less going for a found-footage film in the style of Paranormal Activity than a true-crime documentary about a homicidal exorcism and its aftermath.
Unstoppably, that is, until The Devil Inside, the latest on-the-cheap pick-up from Paramount Insurge, the studio’s indie genre label formed after the massive success of the Paranormal Activity films.
It’s a clearly a B-grade Paranormal Activity rip-off with extra holy water and genuflection.
The characters who manned the cameras in The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield weren't pros, providing an excuse for the shakiness and dizzy-making whip pans.
Nearly thirteen years after The Blair Witch Project introduced the concept of “found footage” films to mainstream audiences while simultaneously harnessing the power of the burgeoning Internet to launch a massively successful viral campaign that hinged on audiences buying into the “truth” behind the film, the found fauxtage horror genre continues to chug almost unstoppably along.
When director William Brent Bell and co-writer Matthew Peterman, the brains behind the equally turgid "Stay Alive," aren’t evoking every single exorcism movie this side of, well, "The Exorcist," they’re dutifully aping the decade-old wave of imitation spawned by the success of "The Blair Witch Project" and fueled more recently by the "Paranormal Activity" franchise.
The fact that “The Devil Inside” tries to fob itself off as some pseudo-scientific exploration of something that really happened in 2009 isn’t new; that’s what these types of movies have done since 1999’s “The Blair Witch Project” made people believe a pile of sticks was a thing to fear.
Arriving after just 73 minutes, it’s a finale dumber than all of the found-footage folderol since “The Blair Witch Project” and an argument for euthanizing this subset of the horror genre altogether.
Superficially, The Devil Inside is yet another "found footage" picture after the fashion of Cloverfield or The Blair Witch Project or [REC] or Paranormal Activity .
We've had horror movies before about video games and technology affecting reality, such as Stay Alive or Pulse .
Similar to horror films like Stay Alive , Truth or Dare , and Would You Rather , this film takes on a game gone wrong to the extreme.
Difetti che potrebbero anche essere perdonabili in presenza di un impianto narrativo solido e votato al puro intrattenimento, sulla scia di quanto visto in progetti analoghi come Stay Alive , Unfriended o Bedevil .
Some have even compared it to the infamous 2012 horror "The Devil Inside," which ended with an abrupt fade to black, and text onscreen telling audiences to visit a website to see the film's ending.
The success of 2013’s The Conjuring and its spin-off Annabelle are the likely inspirations behind The Boy , a no frills, few thrills dark fantasy featuring a creepy porcelain child-size figure.
It’s superior to the low-grade scares of Annabelle from 2013’s The Conjuring but it never manages to get anywhere near the eerie-manikin gold standard of 1945’s The Dead of Night or Richard Attenborough’s 1978 brain-melter Magic.
Since January tends to be quiet at the movies, “M3GAN” also became the first release in over a decade — since 2012’s “The Devil Inside” kicked off to $33.7 million — to open above $30 million in the first week of the new year.
…causing people like myself to do the unthinkable and reference the infamous ending to The Devil Inside in the same sentence as a film by Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow…
Translating a video game into a live-action space is a tricky prospect, and Free Guy manages to be a more faithful translation made with a passion for the medium than prior Hollywood attempts like Stay Alive or Gamer .
…by Angelo Muredda "Esther's terrifying saga continues," promises the confusing promotional copy for William Brent Bell's Orphan: First Kill , a listless prequel to Jaume Collet-Serra's impressively nasty thriller Orphan .
This prequel to Jaume Collet-Serra’s well-regarded 2009 horror Orphan stars the now adult Isabelle Fuhrman, reprising the role she first played as an 11-year-old.
Follow on Facebook | Follow on Twitter | Become a Patron Review by Mark Dujsik | August 18, 2022 A prequel to the 2009 mess of a horror movie Orphan feels like a terrible idea.
What began in 2008 with One Missed Call , has carried forward with such “classics” as: The Unborn, Daybreakers, Season of the Witch, The Devil Inside, Texas Chainsaw 3-D, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, The Forest, Underworld: Blood Wars , and Insidious: The Last Key.
Found footage, meanwhile, has been increasingly relegated to "gimmick" status, the occasional success like Paranormal Activity and V/H/S offset by a stream of instantly forgettable junk with such titles as The Devil Inside and Apollo 18.