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Posted Feb. 11, 2008,
Inside, Featuring a Scary Scissors-Wielding Womb Raider, Comes to Lincoln Center!
By Dennis Dermody
Every once in a while a horror movie comes along that is so jaw-dropping and nightmarish and great that you want all your friends to see it. This is the case with Inside, this outrageous new French shocker by directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo. It's one of the high points of the Film Comment Selects series at Lincoln Center (from Feb. 15-28) and you shouldn't miss it at any cost!
After a car accident that leaves her boyfriend dead, a traumatized and very pregnant photographer Sarah (Alysson Paradis) decides to spend Christmas Eve alone at her remote house. That is until a strange woman (Beatrice Dalle) shows up banging at her door ferociously trying to get in. She’s not Santa, either. Like a Grimm fairy tale gone berserk, the film is awash in blood and gore -- so much so that you won’t believe what you’re watching. I love this new wave of horror films coming out of France -- they’re like American fright flicks of the 1970s, visceral, intense, and, with a take-no-prisoners attitude. Former Betty Blue, Beatrice Dalle, is absolutely terrifying. She’s a scissors-wielding womb raider, and she cuts such a frightening figure in the film she freezes your blood.
Posted Sep. 12, 2007,
Talk of Toronto: Inside
By Dennis Dermody
The talk of the Toronto Film Festival is this French horror film called A l'interieur (Inside) directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury. It concerns a pregnant woman inside a house with a vengeful female psychopath (Beatrice Dalle/Betty Blue) trying to get in. Audiences compared it to High Tension for it's relentless horror and Variety said "if you like blood by the barrel" this is your movie. Bring it on!