With October 30, 1989, Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) fully commited 3 murders during an exorcism performed on her. The Catholic Church started to be involved, and she has since held it's place in a Catholic psychiatric hospital in Rome.
20 years later, her daughter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) seeks to be aware of the truth about what happened that night. She travels to the Centrino Hospital to the Criminally Insane in Madeira where her mother may be locked away to determine if her mother is mentally ill or demonically owned or operated. When she recruits 2 young exorcists (Simon Quarterman as well as Evan Helmuth) for you to cure her mom using unconventional methods combining equally science and religion, they come face-to-face with pure evil available as four powerful demons featuring Maria. Many have been owned or operated by one; only one has also been possessed by many.
The Devil Inside is an American supernatural horror motion picture directed and co-written by simply William Brent Bell, as a documentary-style film with regards to a woman who becomes involved in several exorcisms during her quest to view what happened to the girl mother, a woman who murdered three people caused by being possessed by a demon. Produced by Morris Paulson and also Matthew Peterman, the film stars Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth, and Suzan Crowley, and is slated for being released theatrically on Present cards 6, 2012.
Director Bell, and Morris Paulson and also Matthew Peterman shot the film in 2010 in several different areas, including Bucharest (Romania), Rome (Italy) as well as Vatican City. Lorenzo di Bonaventura as well as Steven Schneider brought the particular movie to Paramount Pictures, and their low-budget side, Paramount Insurge acquired the film, hoping it would always be its next Paranormal Pastime.
When the theatrical trailer was published for Paramount's upcoming horror movie The Devil Within, I responded to this by groaning and putting my face during my hands. There wasn't anything inside footage that made this film look any totally different from the one million exorcism movies or usually the one thousand found footage horror movies which are already out there. Was this project truly necessary? Well, the new red wedding ring trailer hints that though it might not be necessary, The Devil Inside might be pretty fun.
No, there isn't anything revolutionary taking place here that's going to part ways this film from the rest of the pack in your brain, but it's starting to look like this one goes some steps further than all of those other recent exorcism films where big time spectacle, creepy effects work, and offensive content is going. This time around all of us get extended bone-crunching gymnastics, camera-splattering vaginal blood, lots of action, and a bit with a baby that's bound to provide you with the willies.
The first trailer spent most of its time setting up the found footage, based on a true story element of the movie's presentation, and I found that to be a real turn-off. These movies that attempt to look like real, pieced together home video footage are always boring while heckfire. But this new trailer drops a few of that pretense and aims at more on selling the film as a possible over-the-top, gross, horror movie gorefest. Now that's something I am able to get behind. There might be some an answer to the genre yet.