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The Devil Inside

THE DEVIL INSIDE (William Brent Bell). 87 minutes. Opens Friday (January 6). See listing. Rating: N


The preview audience booed at the end, and with good reason: The Devil Inside doesn’t climax – it just stops.

On and off throughout the movie, the crowd laughed derisively at this tale of a young woman who tries to uncover the truth about the triple murder her mother committed 20 years earlier while being exorcised. She’s helped by a couple of young priests and a documentary filmmaker.

The priests are on hand to run the usual exorcism moves on a few women tied to beds and writhing energetically. One of them, Suzan Crowley as the heroine’s mother, delivers some original menace. Another, Bonnie Morgan, is a remarkable contortionist. Their brief scenes seem to belong in a different, better movie.

The documentarian ensures that we see everything in woefully overdone shakycam. In the ample downtime, people discuss the Vatican’s reluctance to deal with demonic possession and, in one shining moment, to telegraph the big plot development.

If you’d like to see this sort of thing done well, rent The Last Exorcism, a far better movie.

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