Those who have played those old school Alone in the Dark games will find similarities with Devil Inside. Dave fights these fiends with old school firepower – shotguns, energy weapons, etc – as well as his trusty alter self, a demonese called Deva, into which he can shapeshift. The idea is that a famous serial killer has seemingly returned from beyond the grave, and has taken refuge in an old creepy manor with other assorted monsters. He takes the job of exploring a house haunted by zombies and other revolting creatures for a cable TV show. The hero of the game is Dave Ackland, an ex-cop, investigator and journalist. Another interesting aspect is that the game was thought up by Alone in the Dark creator Hubert Chardot. Granted, the engine is a bit different from Soul Reaver, but the entire game bears a stark similarity to the third Legacy of Kain entry. It gets ½ a star for three scary moments, and for only torturing us for an hour and 15 minutes.Devil Inside is Resident Evil plus Tomb Raider and latex, all of it weaned on Soul Reaver. It was one of the rare movies in which a guy heckled a few times, and we all laughed and welcomed his comments. I have no clue what possessed him to make it. This piece of garbage was co-written and co-directed by William Brent Hell…errr…Bell. You’ll see all the usual scenes – bodies contorted, speaking in tongues, multiple voices, possessed people knowing things nobody else would know, and more walking on the ceiling than a Lionel Ritchie video. Perhaps an overhead shot or better camera angle or maybe the holy water boiling. What surprised me about this scene is – it could’ve been tremendous. One involved (SPOILER ALERT) a priest that gets possessed at the worst possible time – he’s performing a baptism, and decides the baby should stay under water a little bit longer. It’s a shame, because the movie had a few scary moments and a few (only a few) original scenes. Oh, and the main woman that was possessed made me think of Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, circa 1973. Another crazy woman had drawings and paintings, reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter in his cell. There’s one guy that goes nuts, and I was thinking of Pyle in Full Metal Jacket. I get frustrated when every scene makes me think of another, better film. You’ll think of better films that used this format – The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield, Paranormal Activity, etc. She brings a couple of young priests that like performing exorcisms on their off time.Īnd what do you think happens next? Yep, all the cliches you’ve seen in other exorcism movies – going back to The Exorcist and the most recent - The Exorcism Of Emily Rose (which I hate to admit I kind of liked). She has to go to a mental institution in Italy, near the Vatican (by the way, in case anybody was wondering, they supposedly don’t endorse this movie – a wise move on their part). It’s 20 years later, and her daughter (who is named Isabella Rossi, which every time made me instead think of Isabella Rossellini) wants to find the truth about what happened that night. It’s the late ‘80s and a 911 call comes in from a woman confessing to killing three people. I glanced at a few other reviews, and found other critics had the same experience. The scene leading up to that website was equally as ridiculous. The religious movie Seven Days in Utopia gave us an ending that directed us to a website, and (SPOILER ALERT) – so does this. Instead, it’s that genre that needs to be buried already - the found footage/shaky camera. I remember seeing a few of the trailers and being scared and thinking it could be fun. This is truly one of those films where you say the commercials were better than the movie. I heard this movie was originally called “The Devil Inside Me,” and at the last minute they dropped the “me.” I wish the studio would’ve just decided to drop the film and release it straight to video. The movie was so bad, I just didn’t have the motivation to even Google the lyrics to that song to attempt it. With this movie, it seemed simple enough. I got into this thing where I was changing popular song lyrics to have them fit the review. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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