It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Despite not being a fan at all overall of the found footage/mockumentary style, there are some good exceptions out there. While not an avid horror fan, though a long way from a detractor, there are some great examples and some great films based on the subject of exorcism (the king of them all still being 'The Exorcist').'The Devil Inside' however really fails to deliver. Did form my own opinion, though with a little knowledge of only a few reviews before watching, and watched with an open mind, actually wanting it to be good and be better than the slightly drab premise suggested. 'The Devil Inside' was just a shocker in almost every sense of the word, we are not talking about the type of film it is but the actual quality of the film.It's not entirely without redeeming merits, though the cons are far more numerous and significantly larger. The best performance comes from Suzan Crowley, who gives a heck of a chilling performance. Surprisingly also the contortionist effects were pretty unsettling.However, that is it for 'The Devil Inside's' good points. 'The Devil Inside' has such a drab look and further cheapened by the excessive and badly abused (even for this particular style of filming) shaky cam, which will make people nauseous and should come with a health warning for epileptics (speaking as one myself).Can't remember anything about the music, while the directing is lifelessly amateurish and the script is a shambles with far too much talk and too much emphasis on the science-versus-religion and faith-versus-scepticism, which really bogs down the atmosphere.No better news about the story or atmosphere either. The story is sluggish, increasingly derivative and predictable, with some unintentionally silly parts too, while the atmosphere in general is just too histrionic and there is next to nothing scary in a film already rather under-populated in the scare factor. Only Crowley and the contortionist effects offer any kind of that.Much has been said about that abruptly lazy cheat/cop-out of an ending and for very good reason. Crowley aside, the acting is very poor, with a lead performance from Fernanda Andrade that is both histrionic and somnambulist.All in all, a shocker in almost every way. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Isabella Rossi (Fernanda Andrade) travels to the Centrino Mental Hospital in Italy to try and find out the truth about her mother Maria, who, 20 years earlier, was ruled insane for killing three members of the clergy during her own exorcism.Had The Devil Inside been released 15 or more years ago, it might possibly have appealed to me a bit more, but following in the wake of so many found footage/faux documentary movies I have to deem it a disappointment, completely lacking in originality or a style of its own.Despite reasonable performances and a few impressive special effects (the impossibly contorted bodies of the possessed are unsettling), this mediocre horror offering simply fails to deliver the scares. Proceedings unfold in an extremely tired manner, and end with a predictably lame conclusion that is tantamount to a swift kick in the nads: log on to our now defunct website, www.therossifiles.com, and we'll tell you happened next. Yeah, cheers for that!

I love horror movies, especially supernatural thrillers. I also love found footage movies (the good ones, at least), so when I heard about this movie, I was intrigued; the trailers alone were enough to keep me up at night. Finally on opening weekend, I sat down in a crowded theater hoping to be treated to a memorable, horrifying experience. Sadly, when I left the theater, I felt robbed of the 7 or so dollars I paid to see this, which is a shame because it actually was a good movie, up until the ending which ruined all of it. Let's start from the beginning, shall we? The movie opens with police footage of a multiple-murder scene, which leads to them discovering the culprit: a woman who appears to be almost feral and saying odd things. This is Maria Rossi, the vessel the supposed demons have possessed. Fast forward a little bit and her daughter, Isabella, travels to Maria's mental asylum in Italy to prove that her mother's actions were the act of demons and not insanity, which is the authorities' belief. To do this, she enlists the help of a trio of unconventional exorcists and together they learn that the force they're up against may be more than any of them can handle. What I like about this movie is that its possessions are very realistic in that they don't rely on levitation, projectile vomiting, or any other of the usual exorcism movie parlor-tricks, thereby allowing you to question whether the individuals are really possessed or simply insane. The movie also has a hyper-realistic feel in that it is shot not only in found-footage, but almost exactly like a documentary, adding to the chills. To be able to illicit such scares with so little actually shown definitely takes talent.Sadly, such talent is wasted due to a few problems. One is the obvious glaring plot hole of why an American mental patient who's committed murder is being sent to a mental asylum all the way in Italy, but I suppose you could suspend your disbelief of that long enough to get through the movie. The second problem is not so forgivable: the ending. Oh man, the ending completely destroys all the good things this movie had going for it. Now, I understand that most found-footage movies do tend to lose their way towards the end, but "The Devil Inside" really did it. Without giving too much away, I'll just say that the ending was abrupt and anticlimactic. It was almost like the movie was building up to a climax, but then just...bam, the end. Right at the end of the second act. I felt ripped off, the friends I went with felt ripped off, the whole theater started calling out "that's it?" and "seriously?". I only hope that there is a "Devil Inside 2", if nothing else to finish this story properly! It was actually good starting out, but that ending just destroyed the entire movie and left it feeling incomplete. Such a shame.

Okay so I read your comments but I'd like to say the movie is different. There are some scenes that freaked me out but how many of you have heard about Demonic transfer? This movie proved that demons can get transferred from one person to next. Think in a view of Maria. From Maria to David to Isabella to Michael. That's demonic transfer. If you look at it in a learning way, you will have many questions like What is an exorcism? Or what is Demonic Transfer. I may have not seen it in reality before but I saw it in this movie. I learned a lot from it, thing is Have you? If you didn't pay attention to the small details you would not like it. If you did, you would agree that this is true. Choice is yours.