EVIL INSIDE REVIEW FULL
And that’s a mark of the film: it’s a simple “haunted house” premise that is lensed in the eeriest way possible – with great use of light and shadows and a leading lady whose character is downright creepy! Teo uses what limited resources he has to build a film full of atmosphere, that favours nerve-stringing tension over gore and shocks – although there are those too, especially in Sarah’s visions and inevitable deaths of her so-called “friends”. It’s also a film that plays with your expectations as you wait for each new vision that Sarah has and how each vision will come to fruition… Visions that are remarkably eerie (none moreso than Sarah’s vision of the films two bitchy girls in the attic) despite there often simplicity.
EVIL INSIDE REVIEW SKIN
When they turn up uninvited to her home for a party and murderously turn against each other as the night progresses, Sarah must determine whether her visions represent the preventable or the inevitable… or something entirely more sinister.Ī slow-burning horror, The Evil Insideis one of those films that gets under your skin by taking its time to bring you into the story before unleashing it’s true colours.
So imagine my surprise when I was asked if I wanted to review a small, low-budget horror by our friends at Signature Entertainment and discovered it’s actually a UK retitling of Teo’s 2011 horror film Dead Inside!Apparently re-named The Evil Inside for international markets, the film follows a mentally disturbed teenager named Sarah who has premonitions of the impending deaths of her fellow schoolmates. Since then I have eagerly awaited news on each and every one of his films… From Witchville to Dead Inside, possible sequels to Gene Generation and Necromentia and his current project, the epic-sounding The Return of Captain Nemo.
EVIL INSIDE REVIEW MOVIE
Back in the early days of my movie reviewing “career” I was sent a horror film to review called Necromentia and immediately fell in love with the Hellraiser-esque nightmare – so much so that at the time I approached Teo for an interview (which he duly gave) and named it in my Top 10 of the year. It’s been three years since I first discovered the work of Pearry Teo. Stars: Hannah Ward, Matthew Mercer, Rayne Bidder, James Adam Lim, Jennifer Zhang, Tara Strand, Sage Howard, Shanda Lee Munson, Jimbo Barnett | Written by Jennifer Zhang | Directed by Pearry Teo
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