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Director Robin (Karli Hall) has rented a cabin in the woods to film a
very personal movie, basically about her not always easy relationship with
her husband Max (Schuyler Brumley) and has brought nothing but a skeleton
crew: Actors Joanna (Chelsea D. Miller) and Aaron (Sascha Ghafoor), camera
guy Doug (Jake Ferree), and soundgirl Cody (Amanda Kathleen Ward), who
also happens to be her sister. The shoot gets pretty intense, as Robin is
touching some really sensible issues - many of which actually concerning
Cody rather than her. Cody feels tricked by this and suspects Robin to
secretly making a documentary about her (since Robin's filming behind the
scenes footage pretty much all the time), trying to get her to melt down
on film. Apart from that though, the relative isolation of the place
gets on everybody's nerves, especially since their neighbours (Matthew
Peschio, Alex Rinehart) are weird, to say the least. And of course,
there's no cellphone reception at the place, and when the landline cuts
out and their car won't start anymore, a light panic sets in - and it
should because there are a couple of masked psychos out there who are
intent of killing them. But they're not just mindless brutes, they also
have placed cameras everywhere in the cabin to - well, let's just say
their intentions are worse than just lethal ... They're
Inside surely is a very unusual movie, no matter which way you look at
it: Yes, it's a found footage movie, and yes, it has many aspects of a
slasher, but then again it's also a character study, and it shows some
arthouse tendencies - and it's all somehow rolled into a coherent whole
that at times seems to lead its viewers astray with glee, playing with
genre conventions and audience expectations. And thanks to a strong
script, a solid cast, and a directorial effort that doesn't forget to
create suspense over it's found footage approach, this one works like a
charm.
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