MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Devil Inside’ a frightless, horrifying disaster

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There is a message that appears at the beginning of “The Devil Inside” which states that the Vatican has not endorsed the film, and who can blame them?

“The Devil Inside” is a colossal piece of garbage and there is no reason any person or entity should ever endorse it.

The film follows Isabella Rossi, played by Fernanda Andrade, as she tries to discover what actually happened 20 years ago on the night her mother murdered three people. Her mother, Maria Rossi, supposedly committed the murders while under the influence of a demonic possession.

The main story is basically a thin and uninteresting thread that has the sole purpose of giving the film an excuse to take the audience from one boring scene of jump-scares to another.

That sinking, heart-stopping feeling that one experiences when they drop their cell phone and watch it plummet toward a concrete sidewalk is more terrifying than anything that happens during “The Devil Inside.”

At no point does the film ever progress past the use of predictable and boring gags that have been done many times before, such as the scene where a possessed woman contorts into strange, bone-popping positions and then proceeds to climb the walls.

The popping sounds may cause audiences to cringe at first, but gets old extremely quick.

There is also a total lack of tension or suspense running through the film. There is absolutely no buildup of foreboding as the film reaches its eye-roll-inducing conclusion.

There are just parts that are supposed to be scary and parts that are supposed to explain the story. Those parts are strung together so haphazardly that it makes it almost impossible to actually care about what is happening from scene to scene.

The performances put forth in the film don’t do much to raise the overall quality either.

Suzan Crowley does a decent job of acting creepy and possessed as Maria Rossi, but it ends up falling flat because the mother-daughter relationship between her and Isabella is completely unbelievable.

Simon Quarterman as Father Ben Rawlings has what is possibly the only interesting back story in the whole film, but nothing is ever done with it.

In the end, the scariest thing about “The Devil Inside” is that it has made enough money to possibly encourage the production of a sequel.

Genre: Horror
Rated – R (Restricted)
Score: 1 out of 5 stars