I really quite like this new wave of extreme French horror. There are many I have yet to see: Calvaire (or The Ordeal as it’s known here) and Frontier(s) spring to mind but with each new film I see I feel as though I’m being put further through the wringer. Much like the excellent and very British Eden Lake, your will is severely tested, the films themselves akin to a personal and distressing ordeal that you experience rather than watch.
To say Inside is tough would be stating the obvious. Arriving in Britain at the same time as Pascal Laugier’s brilliant Martyrs, both earned a “dare you see it” reputation that aren’t without merit. Whilst Martyrs opts for the more transcendent route, Inside takes the simple premise of the house invasion through the process of “Extreme French New Wave” and crafts a very violent, bloody and disturbing piece of horror that, as clichéd as it sounds, really has to be seen to be believed.
Mad in the most gruesome way possible.
4.5/5
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