It was terrific (suspend your disbelief and just go with it). Unfortunately, this is the DVD cover that Dimension Films is going with here in North America:
The cover art is awful and seems to be targeted towards what some cynical execs must think the 20-something set who've made the "Saw" series a hit are looking for. Don't let the cover art fool you. "Inside" is a unique (and obviously very bloody) film.
This weekend I saw this film:
It's the first time I've been scared (in an entertaining way) by a new flick since, I think, "Session 9". Yes, it has a few problems (momentum drags for a few minutes about the 3/4 mark, genre-required tag-on ending), but I enjoyed the hell out of it.
Then I watched:
Unfortunately it was a bad quality grey market DVD-R, but the movie itself was terrific. Though it owed a small debt to "Psycho" (shifting sympathies, and some other aspects I won't get into...), it was still original, atmospheric, creepy, lurid, and surprising. It's amazing that there are still so many genre offerings out there for a life-long horror buff like myself to discover.
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Dave-- I saw The House That Screamed earlier this year on the big screen (!) after having not seen it since I was 13 years old at my local theater. It held up remarkably well and, needless to say, looks great in the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio. (Nice poster art image, by the way!) I also saw The Screamers and I agree-- it was a very effective exercise in suspense and well-earned shocks. I closed my eyes a lot during this picture. I'm not sure it adds up to much, but the getting there is quite impressive!
Wow! I watched "Inside" this past weekend off your recommendation and really liked it. Totally dark, disturbing and gore, gore, gore!
dennis, chas.
thanks for your comments, guys. you know, i'd love to see a decent copy of 'the house that screamed'... i can only imagine what seeing it in the theatre would be like. same goes for seeing 'inside' with an audience in a big ol' movie house. at least dvd's (and dvd-r's) give us a chance to see things we'd have a hell of a time trying to track down otherwise.
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