Way back on Episode #2 (look how young we are!), Puck mentions a movie called Inside (À l’intérieur). At the time of the filming of that episode, I had not seen the movie. In this episode he claims that the movie is gory. Yes. Yes it is.
Sarah, who is pregnant, and her husband Matthieu are involved in a car accident. Matthieu does not survive. Four months later, on Christmas Eve, an extremely depressed Sarah is at her doctor’s office for an appointment. The doctor tells her to come back the next day and they may induce her. He sends her home, telling her to “enjoy your last night of peace and quiet.” This is quite the opposite of what happens. While alone in her house, there is a knock on Sarah’s door. A woman needs to use the phone. Sarah, not wanting to be bothered, and perhaps just not wanting to let anyone in due to riots going on, tells the woman that her husband is sleeping and does not wish to wake him. The woman then calls Sarah by her name and tells her that she knows that her husband is dead. The woman eventually get in to the house and begins her task of taking Sarah’s unborn child, mainly through use of scissors.
There are a lot of things that should cause great dismay in this picture, yet it is oddly compelling. The very suggestion of a woman who is 9 months pregnant that is in the middle of a violent bloodbath, of which she is the central target, is not necessarily an enchanting sales pitch. However, the movie does keep you quite enthralled. Béatrice Dalle is simply fantastic as the revenge hyper driven woman at the door. She is just as twisted, menacing and psychotic as any man you will run across. The very first image in the film we see of a baby in the womb, and it’s reaction to the car accident. During various point of the film, when Sarah is engaged in combat, we again see these images of the fetus reacting to what’s happening. This is part of what keeps you from turning away even when the gore is at it’s worst. Your desire for Sarah and the child to survive is stronger as we see the helpless child reacting to stimuli. Also, the need to know who this woman is keeps you watching as well. The deaths are quite brutal and on camera, and though the blood may spew forth like a fountain at times, the gore is rather realistic and not over done at all. There were a few things that did not make sense. At one point the police (who earlier were advised to check on Sarah during the night) stop by and the woman answers the door (Sarah has locked herself in the bathroom) pretending to be Sarah. At first the officers, suspect nothing and start to leave. Out of nowhere, they realize that the woman who answered the door was not pregnant and return. Knowing that something is afoot, at a house where an attempted break in was reported earlier, the choose not to detain the woman right away and let her stand there with one officer. After discovering something is going on, a third officer in the car decides to go in, with their arrestee attached to him by leash. I found that a little odd, that a cop would take a perp in to a situation with gunfire involved. There is a ton of things that are questionable in here, especially the likelihood of Sarah’s baby surviving the accident and then the events of that night. I am not a physician, but that thought crossed my mind a couple of times. However, in the end, it isn’t really that bothersome as the general vagueness of the “universe” of the film outside of this Christmas Eve allows for anything to be possible.
A definite must watch for gore fans, as it will not disappoint. You have been warned, however: it is a bit stabby.
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