Bryan Creason   

Entertainment Editor

   While being a commercially successful movie, ‘The Devil Inside’ just wasn’t a good film. Be it the abysmal ‘ending’ or the unintentionally hilarious overacting, ‘The Devil Inside’ failed as a horror flick. The film follows Isabella Rossi, portrayed by Fernanda Andrade, who is researching the case surrounding her mother’s possession. Her mother, played by Suzan Crowley, had killed three people while an exorcism was being performed on her. As Isabella searches around Rome with a documentary crew, she comes face-to-face with real demons and possibly the Devil himself.

    The main problem with the film is the ending, or lack thereof. The film just seems to stop, without any kind of a resolution to the plot. After a car crash, the film cuts to black and tells the audience to go to a website, saying the Rossi family case has yet to be solved. Another problem is the overacting. Whenever Crowley is onscreen, she starts overacting so much that scenes which should be scary are rendered hilarious. The faces she makes coupled with the otherworldly voices coming out of her are laughable not terrifying.

    For every bad film, however, there is a silver lining. In Inside, that lining is found in actress Bonnie Morgan, who plays a possessed girl. In the film, a demon who possesses her makes her body contort to seemingly inhuman lengths. All of this was done without special effects. Morgan is a contortionist. One of the few terrifying parts of the movie is when Morgan twists her arm in a full circle at the shoulder.

    While ‘The Devil Inside’ has a few good scares in it, the film overall just flops. Unless you’re a fan of exorcism movies, this film will leave you wanting a whole lot more.