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18 out of 100

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2.3 out of 10

Generally unfavorable- based on 80 Ratings

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  • Summary: In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi confessing that she had brutally killed three people. 20 years later, her daughter Isabella seeks to understand the truth about what happened that night. She travels to the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Italy where her mother has been locked away to determine if her mother is mentally ill or demonically possessed. When she recruits two young exorcists to cure her mom using unconventional methods combining both science and religion, they come face-to-face with pure evil in the form of four powerful demons possessing Maria. Many have been possessed by one; only one has been possessed by many. (Paramount Pictures) … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 19
  3. Negative: 12 out of 19
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Clark Collis
    Jan 6, 2012
    58
    While this religio-horror effort does contain some nice scares, and a memorably unnerving turn from Crowley, The Devil Inside's biggest shock arrives when it abruptly ends - just as it hits its stride. The result is a found-footage movie whose third act remains missing.
  2. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: R. Kurt Osenlund
    Jan 6, 2012
    38
    The film's contradictory and nullifying dilemma of wanting to be both scripted and vérité at once, a plight that affects so much contemporary TV, is temporarily quelled in heated scenes of curse-laden levitation and Linda Blair contortion, which dutifully deliver the scares.
  3. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Ben Sachs
    Jan 11, 2012
    30
    Almost competent but not quite watchable.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 37
  3. Negative: 25 out of 37
  1. GagaForGhibli
    6
    This Was A Decent Attempt At A Horror Flick.. It's Just Not What We Wanted, This Had Already Been Done.. The Script Is Really Bad But The Acting Makes Up.. I Was A Inch Away From Giving This Film A 5... This Is Not A 2/10... Be Nice.. And Comeon 18/100!… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. Gloomy_nes
    4
    I should've known that when this movie was promoted by the Jersey Shore cast and that they called it "good", hat it would be actually crap. I had good hope for this movie, but right from the start it took time for it to get into its "groove". Some parts were indeed scary, I'll admit that much. However, being so damn similar to other movies like Paranormal Activity(which was done on purpose) it just doesn't have the same effect. The movie even opens so questions that you expect to be answered, only to be disappointed that they are barely covered before the end. Oh and the ending, it was too predictable. Fancy in its own way, but pretty much the same crap from recent horror films. The people in the room were pissed, and so was I that I spent hard earned money on a spin-off of Paranormal Activity. It's not a horrible movie, but barely worth going to the movies for, I reccomend renting it instead when it comes out on Bluray or DVD. --------Wanna go watch a good horror exorcism movie? Go watch the Rite.… Expand
    • 5 of 5 users said yes
  3. ReviewCritic
    0
    I am a great movie critic. Always rating movies lower than the average user, I usually give respect to a movie by giving it a 1. But this, no! I can't call this a movie. It's not a horror movie. It is a piece compiled of a stupid story line and horrible acting. It ties with House of the Dead for one of the worst movies ever. And what about the ending? OH WAIT, THERE IS NO ENDING!… Expand
    • 9 of 9 users said yes

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