The biggest problem is that the game forces the plot forward when one player finishes an area. For almost all of the traps it feels like the second player was just an afterthought, especially in the furnace or the dark room.
Dead characters appearing in cutscenes, cutscenes that don't work, bugs with the inventory.Īnd gameplay-wise: its just completely unbalanced. The worst were probably game breaking bugs as well as a bug that just forced charlie to die. So we'll exorcise 2-1/2 stars out of 4 for the goose-pimply thriller, The Devil Inside, a devilishly disturbing dose of demonic-possession dread.Bug-wise, i havent seen a single playthrough where there were no problems at all. Supernatural chillers about possession with the power disturb, like The Exorcist, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Last Exorcism, and even The Rite rarely traffic in three-dimensional character delineation - and neither does The Devil Inside, which exhibits very little interest in the mother-daughter bond that is embedded in the film's basic premise.īut the mandate here is to use that single scare-the-hell-out-of-'em dimension to make us claw the armrest and look away - as this latest trip to the dark side does, with several lengthy stretches of excruciating suspense. What she and her film crew discover is that Maria's possession is like nothing else in the history of Christianity, with intimations of concepts like "multiple demonic possession" and "possession transference."ĭirector and co-writer (with Matthew Peterman) William Brent Bell ( Stay Alive, Sparkle and Charm) employs a cinema verite shooting style on digital video that's in the now-familiar fake documentary/found footage realm, and manages to deliver ghastly goings-on that are nightmarishly gripping, with a fair share of genuine shocks and scares. Accompanied by her filmmaker friend, Michael (Ionut Grama), a documentarian who intends to record her experience, she travels to Rome and engages two young rogue priests, exorcists played by Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth, to use their unconventional methods to determine whether or not her mother was indeed possessed by not just one demon, but an unprecedented four.
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