Inner Demon

This was a very well acted and intense ride. Very good actually (apart from some goofs) for a low budget movie. Or at least for the first part. Don't know who's idea it was to add a paranormal twist, but after that the thril was gone.

Well, with a title such as "Inner Demon", I must admit that I had believed this 2014 movie from writer and director Ursula Dabrowsky to be a movie about, oh well I don't know, possibly demonic possession? But no, that was definitely not what "Inner Demon" turned out to be.

Instead I was in for a movie about a woman being abducted and trapped inside a closet for the majority of the movie. Yeah, talk about a swing and a miss of a movie. And this was just pretty much as far from what I had expected it to be, and not in a good way.

Nay, the storyline as written by Ursula Dabrowsky was just not entertaining or interesting. The movie was slowed down to the point of it being painful to sit through given the fact that virtually nothing happened throughout the majority of the movie. And watching a girl sit inside a locked closet just doesn't cut it for entertaining me.

I wasn't familiar with the actors and actresses that participated in this bottom-scraping movie. Usually I enjoy watching new and unfamiliar faces in movies, but the cast that were part of "Inner Demon" just had nothing solid to work with in terms of a proper script, storyline, plot or characters.

This is definitely not a movie I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Some of us suffered through this ordeal of a movie so you don't have to. Trust me, you don't want to venture down this path.

I am rating the 2014 horror movie "Inner Demon" a generous two out of ten stars.

After being kidnapped from her home, a woman goes on the run while attempting to get to safety and eventually finds a remote shack in the woods to hide out in, only to realize the house is the hideout for the couple who kidnapped her and are hiding a deadly secret inside that puts her in danger.

This was a disappointing and somewhat underwhelming genre effort. The main positive point with this one is the incredibly effective series of setpieces found in the final half which put the majority of the scenes until then into fine form. Following up the abduction ploy and the realization that she's been kidnapped, the whole setup brings this into fine reasoning to get her into the house with her wounds so that the second half unfolds with her stuck in the closet waiting for help while avoiding capture. It all works nicely into the later half where the series of supernatural events and activities get brought about in the form of revenge against the kidnappers which gets a series of thrilling visuals to help paint the idea of everything clearly. It's where this one turns the closest into being a genuine genre feature and has some wild action to come about as a result. However, the fact that this one doesn't have much else going for it is due to the structure of this one feeling like a short film stretched out to a feature-length adaptation. Way too much of the film is reliant on watching her bleeding out while hiding in the closet trying not to make noise as the couple are sitting around in the room next to it. This is a creepy enough idea in theory that helps to enhance and explain her situation but it just runs on way too long for its own good and starts feeling repetitive after a while which tends to stretch this out far more than it should. The other issue here is that this all comes about through a slew of rather obvious decision-making that highlights how moronic the whole experience is not pressing the advantage to get out alive, taking every opportunity to keep herself in danger, or failing to recognize the obvious to keep the film going, all of which combine to bring this down.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.

It's an Aussie horror, ...anyone who's watched Aussie horror will know what I mean....got the same vibe as wolf creek with a supernatural twist....I'm a lover of horror and a stern critic.....this film is one of the better ones. Loved it!

The movie does have a spin on the kidnap theme. It also has some colorful (if sometimes one sided) characters. It also does know how to create tension in a lot of ways. So overall it does have a couple of points going its way. It's almost a shame it does seem to lose itself later on, especially considering the environment it created at the start of the movie by spinning a couple of things.

Relationships can be fragile, almost as fragile as entities. Although entities do not really consist of anything, so therefor fragile would not be a word that can describe them. But when they really want, they can move or rather make things happen, not being fragile at all. So maybe the middle ground still would be right? What is not right of course is how the main bad guys behave. Very despicable and hateful is the best way to describe them.

A more than decent effort then, with good special effects and a lot of blood too