Dead Inside

It's disturbing and ambient. Refreshingly different for a horror movie. How funny are the cynical reviews for this film. You can just taste the misery from these sorts of reviewers. Their lives must be so much worse than the movie that it makes them feel even worse about themselves. This is a good movie.

The only reason this film seems to exist is so a group of Chinese-American high school students can get together and make some cash, or at least so it seems to me. Because THE EVIL INSIDE is one of the silliest, dullest and worst written exercises in so-called 'horror' that I've had the misfortune watching in a good while.

The 'story' - although it can barely be labelled as such, it's so slim - goes that a mentally disturbed teen, Sarah, hosts a party for a group of college buddies (it turns out to be one of the worst parties ever put on film, but never mind). While this is going on she starts to have visions of their future ghosts, and of course people start dying before long. Except it's so low budget that there are virtually no effects and the whole thing is nearly bloodless.

(Oh wait, there was one shot of a bloody corpse with lines of stage blood criss-crossing her arms. It looks like nothing more than something who squirted strawberry sauce over their ice cream and had me burst into laughter.)

Eventually - because although this is a short film it feels like it goes on forever - there turns out to be this huge psychological twist, but it's cringeworthy at best. Needless to say the acting from the unknown cast is appalling and the film as a whole should be consigned to oblivion.

Oh dear yet another film with a cast of actors playing stereotypical teens having a get together at someones house. We have the Jock, the close female slutty friends who via for male attention and ultimately fall out, the jealous boyfriend and his promiscuous girlfriend - enter the Jock, the rich party girl and the odd, creepy, ultimately psychotic one.

Sorry to say, same old, same old... get past what i call the dirty uncle plot (unpleasantly over familiar) plus the dire casting and the film is barely watchable, unfortunately it gets worse by the end of the film as the plot expands and you are treated to a blow by blow synopsis of what you have been unceremoniously treated to for the last hour and a half, instead of eluding to the initial story and letting the viewers fill in the gaps... it becomes very tedious.

Are there any original plots left in this genre?

Who thinks up this rubbish? Really, you would think that by the time they had to shell out some cash for the film/videotape they might have had second thoughts. It just wasn't worth the effort, it is shallow, the acting is atrocious, the plot is ridiculous and it should never have got off the drawing board.

Surely if there is funding around to make trash like this it could be better spent on a good cause rather than trying to hash up this rubbish.

There is an over abundance of UGLY bad acting Chinese, and an over abundance of bad acting westerners, in fact it is terrible - "I Will Beat You Until Your Mother Rejects You" Such an amazing script!

There is not one redeeming feature about this movie apart from the end credits - Thank God it is over 1 hour and 22 minutes of sheer garbage.