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| Directed by | Alexandre Bustillo Julien Maury |
| Written by | Alexandre Bustillo |
| Starring | Alysson Paradis Béatrice Dalle |
| Distributed by | La Fabrique de Films (France) Dimension Extreme (US) |
| Release dates |  June 13, 2007 April 15, 2008 (DVD) |
| Running time | 82 min. USA: 75 min. (R-rated cut) |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Inside (À l'intérieur) is a French horror film directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury. Bustillo wrote the film as well. It stars Alysson Paradis and Béatrice Dalle in its two main roles. Both actresses won the Carnet Jove Jury Award at the Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival. Notable for extreme gore, DVD label Dimension Extreme picked it up for a US release in 2008.
Plot
The film opens with a shot of a baby in utero with the mother's voice soothing it. The baby recoils as if struck. Expectant mother Sarah (Paradis) has been in a car accident, and her husband has been killed. Months later on Christmas Eve, Sarah is making final preparations for her delivery the following day. In light of her husband's death, Sarah is now moody and depressed.
That evening, a mysterious woman (Dalle) arrives at Sarah's door asking to use the telephone to call for help. Sarah lies that her husband is sleeping and she does not want to disturbed, but the woman tells her that she knows that he is dead. When the visitor persists on coming in, Sarah, a professional photographer, attempts to take her photo through a window and telephones the police. When they arrive, the woman has already vanished. The police assure Sarah that she will be fine, but arrange to have a patrol car visit throughout the night. Upon developing the photos, Sarah examines the image of the woman and recognizes her in the background of an earlier photo that Sarah had taken, indicating that the woman was stalking Sarah for some time. Sarah telephones her employer, asking to have the photos enhanced.
As Sarah goes to bed, the woman arrives in the bedroom, awakening Sarah with scissors puncturing her navel. Sarah fights the visitor off and locks herself in the bathroom, where the woman tries to gain entry. The woman makes clear that her intentions are to take Sarah's child for herself.
Sarah's employer arrives, and later her mother, both unaware of the predicament that Sarah is in. Believing her to be her attacker, Sarah accidentally kills her mother. Her employer is later stabbed to death by the mtsterious woman.
The police arrive to check up, and upon realizing what is going on, attempt to apprehend Sarah's assailant and are instead murdered.
A final confrontation ensues between Sarah and the woman, with both of them injuring each other via various household appliances. Sarah manages to gain the upper hand on her attacker and burns off half the woman's face with an aerosol container and cigarette. The woman flees, and upon being cornered by Sarah, reveals her identity; she was the other driver in Sarah's car accident and, being pregnant at the time, had suffered a miscarriage and lost her child. (Thus, the baby in utero at the beginning and the mother's voice at the beginning of the film was not Sarah's at all, but rather the woman's.)
The two are interrupted by the revival of one of the police officer; having been shot in close proximity by the woman with his riot gun, he survived the attack but at the cost of being brain-damaged. In his current state of mind, he confuses Sarah with her attacker and brutally beats her. The woman comes to Sarah's aid and kills the officer, but it is too late; Sarah has begun to give birth and the baby is stuck.
Desperate to save the child, the woman proceeds to perform an impromptu Caesarian section on Sarah with her scissors.
As the film ends, Sarah lies dead on the stairs drenched in blood while the woman, having been successful with her delivery, sits on a rocking chair and comforts the newborn child.
Cast
- Béatrice Dalle — La Femme
- Alysson Paradis — Sarah
- Nathalie Roussel — Louise
- François-Régis Marchasson — Jean-Pierre
- Jean-Baptiste Tabourin — Matthieu
Remake
Jaume Balagueró, the director of REC, told Fangoria that he may be directing a remake in the future and that it would "accent the terror of the pregnancy situation more than the gore".
References
External links
- Interview with Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury on Inside.
- Inside at Rotten Tomatoes
- Inside at IMDb
- Template:Amg movie
- Inside (A L'interieur) DVD review, Houston Examiner
