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4/10
The evil inside this film was the plot and the casting
Dead-Rare7 January 2014
Oh dear yet another film with a cast of actors playing stereotypical teens having a get together at someones house. We have the Jock, the close female slutty friends who via for male attention and ultimately fall out, the jealous boyfriend and his promiscuous girlfriend - enter the Jock, the rich party girl and the odd, creepy, ultimately psychotic one.

Sorry to say, same old, same old... get past what i call the dirty uncle plot (unpleasantly over familiar) plus the dire casting and the film is barely watchable, unfortunately it gets worse by the end of the film as the plot expands and you are treated to a blow by blow synopsis of what you have been unceremoniously treated to for the last hour and a half, instead of eluding to the initial story and letting the viewers fill in the gaps... it becomes very tedious.

Are there any original plots left in this genre?
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4/10
PARTY AT SARAH'S!
nogodnomasters1 January 2019
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Sarah (Hannah Ward) is a disturbed person who has premonitions and "episodes." She makes Carrie look like a social butterfly. We don't know the exact nature of her reclusive problem, but we do know her parents moved due to her being tormented. The parents must leave and have Lucy (Sage Howard) come over and keep her company. Lucy, invites her friends and they decide to make it a party.

Things turn weird at about 30 minutes into the film with the kids being locked inside the house (with windows). The horror aspect at this point wasn't too bad. When it came time to bring the film home, they came with a twist, one that filled in plot continuity gaps. The problem I had was that the twist lessened the film. They twisted the wrong way.

This is slightly less than a meh rental.

Parental Guide: No f-bomb, sex, or nudity.
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3/10
Avoid This One
shawnblackman14 October 2016
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A woman with a ton of issues who takes a ton of pills decides to have some friends from school over for a party. The woman has a Final Destination vision and tells them all how they are going to die. All the doors seemed to be locked from the outside trapping everyone inside and soon her predictions come true.

This thing sucked pretty bad. The whole delivery was just awful. Even the setup was hokey and why wasn't anyone trying to get out? The acting was crap as well. The ending to this just made the film even worse. I seen this under the title The Evil Inside but I think Dead Inside was a better description of how you feel afterwards. Avoid this one.
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1/10
Absolute Garbage
missismiggins2 October 2013
Who thinks up this rubbish? Really, you would think that by the time they had to shell out some cash for the film/videotape they might have had second thoughts. It just wasn't worth the effort, it is shallow, the acting is atrocious, the plot is ridiculous and it should never have got off the drawing board.

Surely if there is funding around to make trash like this it could be better spent on a good cause rather than trying to hash up this rubbish.

There is an over abundance of UGLY bad acting Chinese, and an over abundance of bad acting westerners, in fact it is terrible - "I Will Beat You Until Your Mother Rejects You" Such an amazing script!

There is not one redeeming feature about this movie apart from the end credits - Thank God it is over 1 hour and 22 minutes of sheer garbage.
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2/10
A sleepover at Sarah's? Sorry, I'm washing my hair tonight. End of movie.
BA_Harrison14 December 2014
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Sarah is a mopey, pale-faced teenager who is about to start at a new school, so her parents arrange for Lucy (Sage Howard) to come round for a sleepover while they go out for the entire night, clearly happy to be away from their miserable daughter. Lucy, not wishing to be stuck with sulky Sarah on her own, invites all of her friends and so begins the world lamest party, any enjoyment sucked out of proceedings by the miserable 'host'. For reasons that make no sense whatsoever, but which suit the plot, all of the doors and windows are automatically locked from the outside, which means that when the 'guests' start to die, as predicted by fun-sponge Sarah, no-one can escape.

This film features loathsome characters who behave implausibly throughout, but that's OK because, in one of the most over-used plot twists in the genre, everything we see is happening inside Sarah's troubled mind. With such an unlikeable bunch of (imaginary) teenagers, one might reasonably expect to derive some pleasure from their untimely (imaginary) demises, but the (imaginary) death scenes are executed in such a lame, bloodless fashion that horror fans are even robbed of that basic pleasure. The film ends, none too soon, with a drawn out 'reveal' whereby Sarah's parents talk through the entire plot twist in detail for those viewers who haven't already figured things out for themselves.
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2/10
It rarely gets worse than this
Leofwine_draca10 June 2014
The only reason this film seems to exist is so a group of Chinese-American high school students can get together and make some cash, or at least so it seems to me. Because THE EVIL INSIDE is one of the silliest, dullest and worst written exercises in so-called 'horror' that I've had the misfortune watching in a good while.

The 'story' - although it can barely be labelled as such, it's so slim - goes that a mentally disturbed teen, Sarah, hosts a party for a group of college buddies (it turns out to be one of the worst parties ever put on film, but never mind). While this is going on she starts to have visions of their future ghosts, and of course people start dying before long. Except it's so low budget that there are virtually no effects and the whole thing is nearly bloodless.

(Oh wait, there was one shot of a bloody corpse with lines of stage blood criss-crossing her arms. It looks like nothing more than something who squirted strawberry sauce over their ice cream and had me burst into laughter.)

Eventually - because although this is a short film it feels like it goes on forever - there turns out to be this huge psychological twist, but it's cringeworthy at best. Needless to say the acting from the unknown cast is appalling and the film as a whole should be consigned to oblivion.
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1/10
total garbage, incomprehensible rubbish, lowest of the low
FountainPen7 February 2018
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This "movie" stinks from start to finish. It seems to have been shot in almost full darkness, with no lights ~ perhaps a budget factor, but why not choose areas that are fairly bright during the daytime ??? The audio is dreadful, and the "actors" mumble & slur their words ~ at first I thought they must be speaking Swedish or Norwegian, for I could not catch any words at all ! The "story" is rubbish, the effects childish, the direction non-existent. Nothing new or creative here. This is one to AVOID COMPLETELY unless someone pays you a handsome sum to watch it. 0/10.
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8/10
It's a good movie
fluffchop15 June 2021
It's disturbing and ambient. Refreshingly different for a horror movie. How funny are the cynical reviews for this film. You can just taste the misery from these sorts of reviewers. Their lives must be so much worse than the movie that it makes them feel even worse about themselves. This is a good movie.
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