The Devil Inside was highly billed as the first exorcism type horror film to combine the aspects of both, "science," and, "religion," to help solve the mysteries of demonic possession that supposedly lie between the two. The back story to the film is not so bad, a young mother kills three people (presumably clergy) during an exorcism and ends up later being transferred to a mental hospital located within the walls of the Vatican City. It seems a little odd that the U.S. would extradite a murderer to be placed in a mental hospital in a country of which the person has no origin in, but if you let that one pass you have a decent back story. Sadly for movie-goers, that is about all the film has going for it. The film tries too hard to combine science and religion, which is similar to trying to combine oil and water; no matter how vigorously you stir the two, they will eventually settle and separate. While this film was marketed to be extremely terrifying, it was not at all, in fact that scariest part of this film was the breaking out of the phrase, "multiple demonic possession," that is the only thing you will probably remember from The Devil Inside; which also decides to give away its only plot twist in the name of the movie! This movie is just another over-hyped horror film that tried to put a different spin on the overused horror sub-genre known as exorcism.
The good: "Multiple demonic possession," you might find yourself using that phrase to describe people you think are crazy after seeing this film.
The bad: The movie fails at basically every premise that it is marketed on, and it is too short.
Rating: 1.4 out of 10
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