The Devil Inside: Critic Reviews

The Devil Inside's biggest shock arrives when it abruptly ends - just as it hits its stride.

Clearly, when a cheapie pickup like "Paranormal Activity," which Paramount released a few years ago, turns into franchise gold, there's just no stopping the banality.

You can see where this is going, and the filmmakers can see that you can see. So they rush to the hideous yet hilarious climax in little more than an hour and then pad the running time with the slowest-moving credits ever.

"The Devil Inside'' usefully reminds us how little it takes to make some people scream in a crowded movie theater.

It stumbles along to what may arguably be the most abrupt, nonsensical ending since Luis Bunuel stopped slicing cows' eyes for the sake of surrealism.

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The Devil Inside joins a long, woozy-camera parade of found-footage scare pictures, among them The Blair Witch Project, the Paranormal Activity films and certain wedding videos that won't go away.

Despite the palpable air of deja vu that hangs over it like a light fog, The Devil Inside generates a fair amount of suspense during sizable swaths of its familiar but serviceable exorcism-centric scenario.

Here it is just the first week of January, and already we have a strong candidate for the worst movie of 2012.

Bell directs with all the enthusiasm of a guy who was called into work on his day off.

While it doesn't exactly reinvent the inverted cross, The Devil Inside definitely puts a nifty indie spin on the demonic possession genre.

Proves as scary and unsettling as a slab of devil's food cake - only considerably less satisfying.

From the amateur acting, writing and directing to an ending that is shocking only in its stupidity, The Devil Inside will make you puke for all the wrong reasons.

People of the world: If you find some footage, leave it be. You will likely be doing the rest of us a huge favor.

Despite a clever - if not particularly original - idea, this pseudo-documentary horror movie is let down by an immensely frustrating ending and some less than convincing performances.

If it's January, it must be low-grade horror season.

And in a wretched attempt to make this contrivance 'real', they resort to endless shaking of the camera. (You would love to shake them!) The only possession I was looking for in this devilish drivel was the possession of any kind of filmmaking talent.

Just terrible.

Another abysmal horror movie based around "found" documentary footage.

The Devil Inside is yet another dull found footage effort with nothing, bar a mad climax, to offer audiences.

A run-of-the-mill exorcism movie hobbled by its own hype and a divisive ending.

The Devil Inside has the occasional creepy moment but it's let down by a patchy script and some uneven performances.