Inner Demons

2014 "Exorcise caution."
5.2| 1h25m| en
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INNER DEMONS follows an 'Intervention'-style reality show crew that films an episode about a sixteen-year old girl, a former A-student, who is fighting addiction but may in fact be suffering from something even more destructive: demonic possession. The movie is an inquiry into the truth about her - with symptoms that straddle the disturbing and scary intersection between insanity, addiction and true possession.

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Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
climbyourarms I don't like the movies that simulate the "handheld" cinematography, I've walked out of many theaters for that reason, they give me motion sickness. This movie's "handheld" feel was beautifully executed. It showed some motion and some scenes were shot in "selfie mode", but it wasn't that bad. Anyway, there are two types of movie that creeps me out. The ones that mess with my head, and the others that give me the "being chased/something in the dark" willys. This movie gave me tons of the latter. I love horror flicks, and I've watched so many movies about possession, and this movie knocked Deliver us From Evil out of it's number one spot for me. A few scenes had me laughing giddily because I was a bit freaked out. Lara V. (Carson) had a split personality throughout. She could be sweet and timid, but she always had this menacing look about her, and when she switched, sometimes it was overdone, but it didn't bother me. Great twist at the end, too.Now,the bad. The acting in spots was terrible, the plot is contrived and worn out, and one spot where Carson's friend plays a video for the male lead, it was so over the top... Well, you'll see what I mean. Then again, there are cult movies out there that are so ridiculous, it makes this movie look true to life. Either way, it's definitely not a 10 but it's great for a cheap thrill, as long as you can look past it's flaws.
sgcim I thought the concept of this found footage flick was pretty good. The director had produced several episodes of "Intervention", and perhaps this can be thought of either as an expose or satire of that TV show. SPOILERS************************ The fact that the staff of this Intervention-like show are so jaded and cynical is pretty funny to begin with, and the fact that the girl was possessed instead of a drug addict eventually wound up giving the staff exactly what they deserved. The director and whatever the fat guy was were both killed by the girl, and the PA/cameraman was seduced and eventually possessed by the demon. I don't know why people took this film so seriously; it was obviously intended as a kind of very dark subversion of the Intervention scenario, and as such was very entertaining. One great touch was the girl shoving the phony script that her supposedly best friend wrote for the intervention segment down the friend's throat! Another was the look on the face of the baldy producer when the girl started speaking in a demon's voice during the intervention. Some other dark comedic touches were when the nurse tied her to a tree and covered her in goat's blood to save the girl's life, and wound up getting fired for it. After watching the scene where the woman director tells the head of the rehab hospital that the show is never going to plug his rehab hospital again when he boots the possessed girl out of the place, I don't think I'm ever going to take the show "Intervention" seriously again...
begob I guess found footage only delivers from a primitive POV, an unedited feel.This has way too many cameras and cuts, and too many camera operators as characters. Blame the director.The doomed romance is good, but the story fails because the film makers are more important than the characters.Possessed girl is well played by a beautiful actress. The acting overall is excellent, especially the to-camera interviews - but far too many parts. Better to cut the medical stuff to voice over, while the visuals give evidence of the possession.Also no confirmation of possession - might as well be a mockumentary on a dysfunctional family. Therefore: not a horror.Minimal impact, despite all the effort and care.
Nicole of ArchonCinemaReviews.com Inner Demons is a new and interesting take on the demon possession genre of horror.Inner Demons is told in the vein of an unaired reality show episode similar to Intervention, called "Step Inside Recovery". It is season eight and the producers are pretty disillusioned and are just trying to get a shocking backstory and footage to keep ratings. Producers get what they asked for when the featured addict Carson says she's possessed by a demon and that's what is causing her addiction.Yes, Inner Demons is technically unoriginal because once again we have a possession horror film. There are so many different versions released by now that how can anyone matter to add something new to the genre? Writer Glenn Gers manages to do just that by rethinking the idea of addiction. Every drug addict has a reason, always trying to dull the pain that lurks underneath and figuratively kill the darkness inside but Gers reinvents the causation of drug addiction to be literal. It is quite surprising this has never been thought of before, to my knowledge, and is an intelligent choice.Carson is played by Lara Vosburgh who does a really wonderful job playing a demon possessed drug addled heroin/Oxycontin addict. Morgan McClellan is Jason, the new PA and camera operator who takes to Carson, believing her story, and trying to save her from the darkness. Both are sincere in their portrayal and provide surprisingly well acted roles in Inner Demons.Seth Grossman provides the direction to Glenn Gers's witty and realistic dialogue. Nothing is sacred as the production crew insensitively and bluntly discuss their subject Carson with zero empathy.Once Inner Demons focuses more on the demonic possession of Carson the film becomes more formulaic and expected and lacks the sinister gore typical of a person consumed by evil.More reviews in FULL can be found at our website.