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2007 French horror film directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo

Inside Film poster French À l'intérieur Directed by Julien Maury

Alexandre 🧬 Bustillo Written by Alexandre Bustillo Produced by Vérane Frédiani

Franck Ribièrer Starring Béatrice Dalle

Alysson Paradis Cinematography Laurent Barès Edited by Baxter 🧬 Music by François-Eudes Chanfrault Production

companies BR Films

La Fabrique de Films Distributed by La Fabrique de Films Release date June 13, 🧬 2007 ( ) (France) Running time 82 minutes Country France Language French BudgetR$2.5 million Box officeR$530,000[1]

Inside (French: À l'intérieur) is 🧬 a 2007 French horror film directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo and starring Béatrice Dalle and Alysson Paradis. Written 🧬 by Bustillo, it is the first feature film from either director. It concerns the attack and home invasion of a 🧬 young pregnant woman (Paradis) by a mysterious stranger (Dalle) who seeks to take her unborn baby.[2] The film received generally 🧬 positive reviews from mainstream critics upon its release and was particularly well received among horror film critics, noting it for 🧬 being a genuinely scary and brutally violent example of the new wave of French horror.

Plot [ edit ]

On Christmas Eve, 🧬 four months after expectant mother Sarah Scarangella survives a car crash that kills her husband, she makes final preparations for 🧬 her delivery the following day. Her baby is overdue. Still reeling from her husband's death, Sarah has grown moody and 🧬 depressed. She turns down her mother's request to stay with her for the night and has asked her employer Jean-Pierre 🧬 to take her to the hospital for her eventual delivery.

That evening, a mysterious, unidentified woman 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 be 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, arranging to have a patrol 🧬 car visit throughout the night.

Upon developing her photos, Sarah recognizes the woman in the background of an earlier photo she 🧬 had taken, indicating she was stalking Sarah. Sarah telephones Jean-Pierre, asking to have the photos enhanced. As she goes to 🧬 bed, the woman arrives in the bedroom, awakening Sarah with scissors puncturing her pregnant belly. Sarah fights the visitor off 🧬 (who slashes part of Sarah's face with the scissors) 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.

Jean-Pierre arrives, and not knowing 🧬 what Sarah's mother looks like, takes the woman's word that she is the mother. Not long after her actual mother 🧬 Louise arrives, arousing his suspicion. Louise heads upstairs to check on her daughter. Believing her to be the attacker, Sarah 🧬 accidentally kills Louise by stabbing a needle into her neck. Jean-Pierre is later stabbed to death by the intruder. The 🧬 police arrive to check up on her with a prisoner in tow. Not knowing what Sarah looks like, the police 🧬 take the woman's word that she is Sarah and everything is fine. As they are about to leave, the police 🧬 realize the woman who answered the door was not pregnant and return to the home. The first officer is stabbed 🧬 to death with knitting needles as he attempts to arrest the attacker. The second is shot in the back of 🧬 the head as he attempts to help Sarah. The attacker turns off the power as the third enters, waiting until 🧬 they go to turn it back on before shooting the officer and stabbing his prisoner in the head.

Sarah confronts the 🧬 woman, and both injure each other with various household appliances. Sarah manages to burn off half of the woman's face 🧬 with an aerosol container and cigarette. The woman flees, and after being cornered by Sarah, reveals that she was the 🧬 other driver in the car accident, which killed her unborn baby. She wants Sarah's baby as a replacement.

Before anything else 🧬 can happen or be said, the two are interrupted by the revival of the third police officer; having been shot 🧬 in close proximity by the woman with his riot gun, he survived the attack but is now disoriented and blinded. 🧬 He confuses Sarah with her attacker and beats her in the stomach with his club, forcing her water to break. 🧬 The woman comes to Sarah's aid and brutally kills the officer; but Sarah, now lying on the stairs, has begun 🧬 to give birth and the baby is stuck. The woman performs a Caesarean section on Sarah with scissors, saving the 🧬 infant but killing Sarah in the process. The woman then sits in a chair and begins rocking the baby, who 🧬 briefly cries, as she looks soulfully at Sarah who lies dead on the steps.

Cast [ edit ]

Béatrice Dalle as La 🧬 Femme

Alysson Paradis as Sarah Scarangella

Nathalie Roussel as Louise Scarangella, Sarah's mother

François-Régis Marchasson as Jean-Pierre Montalban

Jean-Baptiste Tabourin as Matthieu

Dominique Frot as 🧬 The Nurse

Claude Lulé as The Doctor

Hyam Zaytoun as Policewoman

Tahar Rahim as Policeman #1

Emmanuel Guez as Policeman #2

Ludovic Berthillot as BAC 🧬 Policeman #1

Emmanuel Lanzi as BAC Policeman #2

Nicolas Duvauchelle as BAC Policeman #3

Aymen Saïdi as Abdel

Production [ edit ]

Directors Julien Maury 🧬 and Alexandre Bustillo

Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo met each other through a mutual friend. After the meeting, Bustillo sent Maury 🧬 a first draft of the script and Maury sent over some short films that he had worked on in the 🧬 past. According to Maury, "The first idea with the story was to change the sex of the killer. In horror 🧬 movies it’s always a guy chasing after young girls; it’s one of the clichés of the genre. So the first 🧬 main idea was changing the identity of the bad guy. We wondered what was the motivation for a woman to 🧬 hunt another woman?" The film was given a budget of 1.7 million Euros.[3]

Reception [ edit ]

Inside received mostly positive reviews. 🧬 Rotten Tomatoes reports a score of 85% based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 7.61/10.[4]

Nathan Lee of The 🧬 Village Voice found the film to be a "nasty number" that was both "repellent" and "uncompromising"[5] while Harry Knowles of 🧬 Ain't It Cool News called it "off the hook awesome" and "a traumatically entertaining experience."[6] Jason Buchanon of AllMovie gave 🧬 the film a score of 4/5, and called it "a pitch-perfect balance of grinding tension and inventive gore"[7] while John 🧬 Fallon of Arrow in the Head gave it a perfect score of 10/10, and deemed it "a real horror film; 🧬 character driven, suspenseful as hell, smarter than the norm and gory as fuck."[8] Brad Miska of Bloody Disgusting gave Inside 🧬 a top score of 5/5, labeling it "one of the scariest movies I have ever seen in my life" before 🧬 concluding, "This is quite possibly the most violent, realistic and bloody slasher film ever assembled, ending on such a gut-wrenching 🧬 note that there's not a single person who could walk out of that theater feeling normal."[9] Bloody Disgusting later ranked 🧬 the film twelfth in their list of the Top 20 Horror Films of the Decade, with the article saying, "One 🧬 of the most audacious, brutal, unrelenting horror films ever made, Inside is perhaps the crown jewel of the new wave 🧬 of extreme French horror films."[10]

Inside was called "the most visceral slasher film of all time" by Steve Barton of Dread 🧬 Central, who awarded the film a score of 4½ out of a possible 5 and wrote, "The film may be 🧬 cruel, but it's executed with pure artistry. Haunting
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carry their own grotesque beauty and there is real emotional depth 🧬 anchored by a pair of powerhouse performances from the dueling ladies."[11] Inside was deemed an "excellently paced suspense movie" by 🧬 Kevin Carr of Film School Rejects[12] while Adrian Halen of Horror News praised it as "an amazing film" that "no 🧬 self-respecting horror fan should go without seeing."[13] Sarah Gopaul of Popjournalism found Inside to be "a gut-wrenching exhibition of intensity 🧬 and gore, propelled by strong performances from Dalle and Paradis."[14] Steve Dollar of The New York Sun opined that the 🧬 "darkly stylish and shockingly violent" film was the "essence of grindhouse" and "one of the most edge-of-the-seat, fingers-over-the-eyes flicks in 🧬 recent memory."[15]

While Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club admitted that Inside was "a superb piece of horror craftsmanship" that was 🧬 stylish, intense, and nerve-jangling, he criticized its frequent cutaways to the protagonist's in utero child, writing, "Where Inside crosses the 🧬 line is a visual device that periodically checks the baby's status as it sloshes around the uterus, like a CGI 🧬 ultrasound. Sometimes it's as peaceful-looking as the star baby in 2001; at other times, after a scuffle or a blow, 🧬 it's tossed about so violently that its survival is in question. While I recognize that no digital fetuses were harmed 🧬 during the making of Inside, there's something unseemly and grossly manipulative about treating the baby like some helpless variation on 🧬 the "Final girl" in a Halloween knockoff."[16] Kim Newman had a lukewarm response to the film, offering praise to its 🧬 unsettling and "quietly intense" first half while criticizing its descent into "gory farce" for its finale, writing, "Designed to provoke 🧬 extreme responses, Inside is conceptually among the most horrific movies ever made. In execution, it surprisingly lets the audience off 🧬 the suspense hook to go for CGI-assisted ketchup-sloshing in the almost cheerful Herschell Gordon Lewis manner rather than the nerve-stretching, 🧬 you-can't-watch-this approach of, say, Gaspar Noé."[17]

Release [ edit ]

Inside was released on 13 June 2007 in France.[18]

Remake [ edit ]

Hollywood 🧬 has shown interest in remaking the film; Maury and Bustillo were propositioned but both turned it down.[3]

Jaume Balagueró, the director 🧬 of REC, told Fangoria that he may be directing the remake in the future and that it would "accent the 🧬 terror of the pregnancy situation more than the gore".[19]

In 2009, Maury mentioned that there had been some problems with the 🧬 rights and the project was delayed. Furthermore, he was unsure if Balagueró’s was still attached to the project; "For us 🧬 this was really like a dream because we are big fans of Balagueró’s movies. For the first time it wasn’t 🧬 the case of a newbie making the movie of a big director, it was the exact opposite where a huge 🧬 director is making the film of two poor French guys. So we were proud of that."[3]

In 2024, it was announced 🧬 that the remake was back in production with Miguel Vivas, known for directing Kidnapped, set to direct.[20]

The remake was completed 🧬 in 2024 and released in the United States exclusively on video on demand on January 18, 2024. Directed by Miguel 🧬 Ángel Vivas from a screenplay penned by Jaume Balagueró, the film stars Rachel Nichols, Laura Harring, and Andrea Tivadar.[21]