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Full Trailer for ‘The Devil Inside’ Takes a Stab at Exorcisms
Just before everyone turned off their computers for the weekend, Paramount’s Insurge Pictures provided us with a viral teaser, one sheet and “living” poster for their micro-budget franchise starter, The Devil Inside, which comes from director and co-writer William Brent Bell (Stay Alive).
Opening in theaters January 6, 2012, the studio is using Paranormal Activity 3 as a launchpad and has now released the first full trailer for the found footage chiller that stars Bonnie Morgan, Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Preston James Hillier, Evan Helmuth, Suzan Crowley, D.T. Carney, and Ionut Grama.
The trailer is pretty awesome as it follows a girl who is scared that she may have the “crazy” gene where, like her mother, she’ll eventually go insane thinking she’s possessed. It looks like a mix between The Rite, The Exorcist and The Last Exorcism — but we all know how hard it is to deliver a truly scary possession film. ([REC]2 and The Exorcist are the only two extraordinary ones that pop into my head.) And as good as the trailer is, it gives away way too much. Hopefully, much like Paranormal Activity 3, none of the trailer footage is actually in the final version of the film…
“Her entire life, Isabella Torelli believed her mother brutally murdered three people because she was clinically insane. After being told the murders occurred during an exorcism she sets out to discover the truth. While documenting her experience with a film crew in Italy, she becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms.”
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Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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