INSIDE’s visceral impact can't be overstated. When this film came out, when I lived in Brooklyn, there was a great movie rental place around the corner from me called Photo Play, which had an incredibly well-curated selection of everything including horror films. This was a new release. I hosted a brunch at my apartment for a bunch of my Vassar friends and we decided to take a walk, pick out some scary movies and put 'em on. And this film repulsed literally everyone who saw it, and I mean from the opening credits which roll over a wash of blood and broken glass, which is basically a visual metaphor for what we're about to experience.

It's this crazy home invasion thriller. It's a mystery. It's an unflinchingly, brutal, visceral gorefest that just builds and builds and builds and kind of compounds itself until the very end. And it's a Christmas movie.

INSIDE has great sound design. It has great music. The editing is great. It has great cinematography and a fantastic and hallucinatory use of lighting. I'm also really intrigued by its woman versus woman premise.

And I think this film is grisly in the truest sense. It's like motherhood anxiety amped up to 11. And it is just from start to finish a gory metaphor with complex characters who are broken and complicated people. I think it kind of knocks it out of the park on almost every level.

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Bradford Louryk