Inner Demon

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.

Holy crap. I thought another reviewer here was jokingly exaggerating when they said the main character spends 30 minutes hiding in a closet crying. THEY WERE NOT. In fact, IT'S EVEN LONGER THAN THAT! I checked and she is in there for 40 WHOLE MINUTES! 40 MINUTES of this 84 minute movie is spent IN A CLOSET! I'm not even going to get into any of the other (and many) problems with this movie because if this one fact isn't enough to convince you that this movie is an insulting waste of your time, then nothing else I say will matter either. Avoid like the plague.

This movie was pretty good and scary. Creepy also. The ending is confusing though

This film has two parts for me, one was good and worked well, the other didn't work and ruined any tension that the movie held. The good, the kidnap theme was working well and it held some tension through the movie, which I liked a lot. Then there was the haunted theme which ruined the whole film for me and took out any tension that the film held. Why? Well when it came to the haunted part, there were no scares, no tension with it and to me, spoilt the whole story and I'll for me. The film should have kept on the kidnap theme as I thought it was well done on most accounts, if they were going to stick to the haunted theme, then rank up the tension and scares to make it work, don't have less. I have given this three stars, one for the main actress, she was pretty good in this, the kidnap theme was done pretty well, I know it was a low budget movie but this has never bothered me and the third star is for the film directors, well Done for the most part of keeping the tension up. No stars go for the bad guys, way over acting and no stars for the haunting part, spoilt the whole film. If anyone is giving this five or above stars, then you know something is up.

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