Inside | Film review - Pale remake of gory French home invasion thriller

Inside Rachel Nichols — (Image credit: Embankment Films)

Some women would kill for a baby.

Left partially deaf by a car crash that claimed her husband’s life, a heavily pregnant woman (Rachel Nichols) finds herself violently beset in her home by a mysterious stranger (Laura Harring) with designs on her unborn child.

A remake of the 2007 French shocker À l’intérieur, home-invasion horror thriller Inside can’t match the grisly terror served up by its predecessor, not least because Harring’s chilly antagonist lacks the deranged fury of original co-star Beatrice Dalle.

And, if the combination of vulnerable heroine and shadowy intruder gets you jumping and squirming on cue, the many plot holes and character stupidities will probably leave you yelling at the screen as well.

Director Miguel Ángel Vivas

Inside is showing on Sky Cinema Premiere.

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A film critic for over 25 years, Jason admits the job can occasionally be glamorous – sitting on a film festival jury in Portugal; hanging out with Baz Luhrmann at the Chateau Marmont; chatting with Sigourney Weaver about The Archers – but he mostly spends his time in darkened rooms watching films. He’s also written theatre and opera reviews, two guide books on Rome, and competed in a race for Yachting World, whose great wheeze it was to send a seasick film critic to write about his time on the ocean waves. But Jason is happiest on dry land with a classic screwball comedy or Hitchcock thriller.