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-> ''"Open it, Sarah. Don't be afraid. You don't want that child. I'll take good care of him..."''
-->-- '''La Femme'''
''Inside'' ("''À l'intérieur''") is a French home-invasion [[HorrorFilms horror film]] released in 2007 and co-directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, noted for its extreme gore and violence.
On a bleak, rainy day a pregnant photojournalist named Sarah Scarangelo is involved in a grisly two vehicle crash, an accident that kills her husband, Matthieu. Skipping ahead four months, the film depicts a now bitter, detached, and depressed Sarah being told by her doctor that she should go into labor the next day, Christmas. Preferring to be alone to wait out the inevitable birth, Sarah blows off her mother, Louise, and is given a lift home by her boss, Jean-Pierre, who she arranges to have drive her to the hospital the next morning.
As Sarah tries to get comfortable in her desolate little house, her attempts at rest and relaxation are interrupted by a knock at the door. A mysterious woman with a pair of scissors (referred to simply as [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep "La Femme"]]) asks if she can borrow Sarah's phone because her car broke down. When Sarah refuses, La Femme refers to Sarah by name and reveals she knows about the car accident which took Matthieu's life...
Needless to say, [[{{Gorn}} things]] [[AnyoneCanDie do not]] [[KillEmAll end well]].
Noted as being a prime example of {{Gorn}}, this picture has so much bloodshed it almost comes off as a non-comedic splatter film. [[UpToEleven By the end, there is probably not one inch of Sarah's house that isn't soaked in blood and guts]]. Suffice to say, Nightmare Fuel and NauseaFuel are in high supply.
[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Shouldn't be confused with]] the 2016 game ''VideoGame/{{Inside}}'', though both are very dark and known for NauseaFuel.
'''Note: Due to the nature of the film, many of these tropes contain massive spoilers. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''
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!! This film provides examples of the following tropes:
* AccidentalMurder: Hearing someone approach, Sarah attacks them with a knitting needle. [[spoiler:It's actually her own mother]].
* AdultFear: Losing their child to another woman is indeed a very deep-rooted fear for most women.
* AerosolFlamethrower: Towards the climax of the film, [[spoiler:Sarah sprays La Femme with a canister as the latter leans over her and lights a cigarette, setting her head on fire]].
* AlliterativeName: Sarah Scarangelo.
* AxCrazy: A more lucid, but no less violent, example.
* AxeBeforeEntering: La Femme never succeeds in actually breaking through the washroom door, but does punch little holes in it with her scissors.
* BabyBeMine: La Femme's intentions.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:La Femme succeeds in cornering and disemboweling Sarah, killing her, to get the baby. It's left ambiguous if the baby itself survived or not.]]
** [[spoiler: Averted with the ending of the remake however, as La Femme drowns and Sarah's able to give birth ala water birth]].
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Just in case you weren't sure how villainous La Femme really is, her snapping Sarah's cat's neck should do the trick.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Subverted. Sarah is slashed across her mouth with a pair of scissors. [[spoiler:La Femme is seriously disfigured via Sarah's AerosolFlamethrower.]]
* BladeOnAStick: Sarah creates a makeshift spear, though La Femme ends up being the wielder, using it to kill the final officer.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Sarah, on several occasions.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Sarah spends roughly ninety percent of the film covered in blood.
* BoomHeadshot: The second officer's death.
* {{Bowdlerized}}: The version available at most Blockbusters apparently cut out around seven minutes.
* CameraFiend: Sarah. Comes with being a photojournalist.
* CampingACrapper: As the second officer is helping Sarah out of the washroom, La Femme appears to blow his head off.
* ChainedHeat: The third officer is forced to drag Abdel along by a leash he also attaches himself to while looking around Sarah's house.
* DeathByAdaptation / SparedByAdaptation: The remake changes the fates of [[spoiler:La Femme and Sarah]] to have the former die in the end and the latter survive.
* {{Determinator}}: La Femme will stop at nothing to get Sarah's baby, not even [[spoiler: getting half of her face melted off.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: Just as Sarah gains the upper hand, [[spoiler:an officer that we were lead to believe La Femme had earlier killed turns out to still be alive, and in a deranged state he attacks Sarah, causing her to go into labor and become helpless]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:As tragic as the accident was, there's no indication that Sarah is to blame. This doesn't stop La Femme for wanting Sarah's baby in exchange for the one she lost.]]
* DuctTapeForEverything: After [[spoiler:giving herself a tracheotomy]], Sarah [[spoiler:duct tapes the wound]].
%%* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Sarah.
%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: La Femme.
* EnhanceButton: Sarah takes a photo of La Femme standing outside her house, but the lighting is so poor she can hardly make out her appearance. She calls her editor to ask him if he can blow up the photo.
* EvilIsPetty: La Femme randomly kills [[spoiler:Sarah's cat]] by crushing its head.
%%* EyeScream: The first officer's death; the third also seems to be missing his eyes [[spoiler:when he reappears]].
%%* FaceRevealingTurn: Done with the deranged and disfigured third officer.
* FacialHorror: When [[spoiler:Sarah sprays an aerosol can at La Femme while she lights up for a cigarette. The resulting third-degree facial burns, hair loss, and disfigurement are far from pretty.]]
%%* FadeToBlack
* FamousLastWords:
** [[spoiler:Louise]]: "Sarah?"
** [[spoiler:Jean-Pierre]]: "Sarah?"
** BAC Policeman #1: "No, no!"
** BAC Policeman #2: "Oh my fucking God..."
** [[spoiler:Abdel]]: "Hey lady, hey lady! She's still here! Come on, get up! Come on, get up! Fuck! Where the fuck are your keys!?"
** [[spoiler:Sarah]]: "Mommy, mommy!"
%%* FatalFamilyPhoto: The third police officer gets a call from his wife or girlfriend.
* FinalGirl: Subverted. [[spoiler:Sarah starts out as a DamselInDistress, but she eventually graduates to ActionSurvivor status despite being ''this close'' to giving birth. While she does a serious number on La Femme, it wasn't enough since Sarah still gets killed at the end.]]
* {{Flashback}}: Near the end, the opening car crash is reshown [[spoiler:from La Femme's perspective.]]
* ForeignRemake: After some time in DevelopmentHell, a North American remake materialized in 2017, ten years after the film's initial release.
* ForTheEvulz: Sarah claims the rioter's real motive is just being destructive for it's own sake.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:La Femme was the other driver in the crash that killed Matthieu, and lost her baby in it, something she came to blame on Sarah]].
%%* GetAholdOfYourselfMan
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: An unkind nurse (who does it in the hospital right next to Sarah, no less) and La Femme are the only characters shown smoking.
* {{Gorn}}: When the title credits play over rippling pools of blood with what appears to be fetuses in them, you know you're in for a messy ride.
* GroinAttack: La Femme stabs Jean-Pierre in the crotch with her scissors.
%%* GrossUpCloseUp: In a film this gory, that it contains many of these should hardly come as a surprise.
%%* HatesBeingTouched: La Femme.
%%* HeartbeatSoundtrack
%%* HeroicBSOD: What Sarah spends most of the film in.
* HighPressureBlood: While the film tends to be more realistic than other slashers when it comes to the {{Gorn}}, this still occurs from time to time. Most notably, [[spoiler:the bloody geyser erupting from Louise's neck when she is ambushed and killed by Sarah]].
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Various people stopping by, and the deranged final officer attacking Sarah and rendering her completely helpless just after she overpowers La Femme]].
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The film is set around Christmas.
%%* HospitalHottie: A nurse.
%%* IceQueen: The initial impression given by Sarah.
* IdiotBall: La Femme insisting Jean-Pierre stay for drinks instead of just letting him leave, three different police all failing to use their radio to call for help (including one who has just heard gunshots), and Sarah simply dropping the handgun that the police gave her.
* ImpaledPalm: La Femme stabs a pair of scissors through Sarah's hand into a wall, preventing Sarah from moving.
* ImperiledInPregnancy: Basically the premise of the film. Pregnant woman is attacked by a stranger who wants to steal her baby. With scissors. [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday During Christmas Eve]].
%%* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: La Femme.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: La Femme's primary weapons are a knitting needle and a pair of scissors.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Early on, Sarah uses a lamp to bash La Femme, who later returns the favor by bludgeoning Sarah with a toaster.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler:Sarah]] does this to herself towards the end of the film as well.
* InstantDramaJustAddTracheotomy: Choking on her own blood, Sarah resorts to this.
%%* INeverToldYouMyName: "Your husband's not sleeping Sarah. He's dead."
* IWantMyMommy: In a dramatic use of this, Sarah is reduced to screaming for her mother as [[spoiler:La Femme cuts her womb open]].
%%* {{Jerkass}}: The elderly hospital nurse.
* KickTheDog: La Femme murdering [[spoiler:Sarah's cat]].
* KillEmAll: By the end of the film, only [[spoiler:La Femme and Sarah's baby]] are alive, but even then it's debatable as to if the latter survived.
* ManBitesMan: Sarah bites La Femme's lower lip off.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: La Femme's line that Sarah already killed her once, along with Sarah being told that no one else survived the car crash, fuels this.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: La Femme appears wandering around several times, in a very [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]]-esque fashion.
%%* {{Meganekko}}: Louise.
%%* MirroredConfrontationShot
* NightmareSequence: Sarah vomiting up her baby.
* NoNameGiven: La Femme, and every officer.
* NothingUpMySleeve: Where La Femme keeps most of her makeshift weapons.
* NotQuiteDead: Jean-Pierre, and the third police officer.
* NumberOfTheBeast: Sarah's house is number 666.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Louise doesn't look too much older than her daughter Sarah, and this was probably Jean-Pierre's thought when La Femme pretended to be Louise.
* OfCorsetsSexy: La Femme, though she discards it early on.
%%* OminousFog
* OneWordTitle: The English title is ''Inside''.
* OrificeEvacuation: Sarah has a nightmare about her baby forcing its way out of her mouth.
* [[PaintTheTownRed Paint the House Red]]: TheMovie
* PeekABangs: La Femme.
* PetTheDog: Subverted. [[spoiler:After petting and coddling the cat, La Femme crushes its skull in her bare hands, and casually throws the body aside.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: The police are powerless to stop La Femme. [[spoiler:Three of them check in on Sarah, and despite outnumbering La Femme and being armed, all of them are quickly butchered.]]
* PottyFailure: After holing up in the washroom, Sarah pees herself (or her water breaks, whichever).
* PregnantBadass: What Sarah is forced to become.
%%* PrecisionFStrike
* ReactionShot: Mostly from the fetus.
* RedShirt: Abdel, a suspected vandal arrested by some officers sent to check in on Sarah.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The backdrop of the Paris riots.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:La Femme was the other driver in the accident that killed Matthieu, and miscarried because of it]].
* ShearMenace: La Femme's weapon of choice is a long pair of scissors.
* ShirtlessScene: Sarah has a fantasy about her dead husband Matthieu in which he's shirtless.
* ShrineToTheFallen: Sarah has erected one for Matthieu.
* SickeningCrunch: [[spoiler:Sarah's cat]] getting its head crushed.
%%* SinisterSilhouettes
%%* SlashedThroat: How [[spoiler:Jean-Pierre]] is killed.
%%* StalkerWithoutACrush: La Femme.
%%* StuffedInTheFridge: Matthieu.
%%* TitleIn: Four months later.
* TokenMinority: Abdel is the only character with north African heritage in a cast otherwise made up of French people.
* TooDumbToLive: The officers, who fail to radio for help even after they've heard the gunshots.
* TraumaticCSection: [[spoiler:La Femme performs an impromptu one on Sarah at the end of the film. Sarah doesn't survive.]]
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: A depressed Sarah imagines Matthieu caressing her, but this is cut short by a shot of him having his head smashed into a windshield.
%%* TurnOfTheMillennium
%%* TwistedChristmas
* TwoFaced: La Femme, after [[spoiler:being burned]].
* {{Undercrank}}: Randomly used in a scene where La Femme lights up a cigarette.
%%* UnnaturallyBlueLighting
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Happens to Sarah as a symptom of her pregnancy.
%%* WaitHere
* WindowPain: Early on, La Femme smashes one of Sarah's windows as an intimidation tactic.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Sarah wears a white nightgown for most of the film. By the end, it's completely red.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: La Femme was driven insane [[spoiler:by the loss of her unborn child]].
* {{Yandere}}: La Femme is an incredibly rare ''platonic'' example. She will do anything - and we mean ''[[KillEmAll anything]]'' - to ensure that she can have [[spoiler:Sarah's baby]] all to herself.
* YourHeadAsplode: The second officer's death.
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[[caption-width-right:350: [- Much like roller coasters and hard liquor, the pregnant should stay well away from this. -] ]]
-> ''"Open it, Sarah. Don't be afraid. You don't want that child. I'll take good care of him..."''
-->-- '''La Femme'''
''Inside'' ("''À l'intérieur''") is a French home-invasion [[HorrorFilms horror film]] released in 2007 and co-directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, noted for its extreme gore and violence.
On a bleak, rainy day a pregnant photojournalist named Sarah Scarangelo is involved in a grisly two vehicle crash, an accident that kills her husband, Matthieu. Skipping ahead four months, the film depicts a now bitter, detached, and depressed Sarah being told by her doctor that she should go into labor the next day, Christmas. Preferring to be alone to wait out the inevitable birth, Sarah blows off her mother, Louise, and is given a lift home by her boss, Jean-Pierre, who she arranges to have drive her to the hospital the next morning.
As Sarah tries to get comfortable in her desolate little house, her attempts at rest and relaxation are interrupted by a knock at the door. A mysterious woman with a pair of scissors (referred to simply as [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep "La Femme"]]) asks if she can borrow Sarah's phone because her car broke down. When Sarah refuses, La Femme refers to Sarah by name and reveals she knows about the car accident which took Matthieu's life...
Needless to say, [[{{Gorn}} things]] [[AnyoneCanDie do not]] [[KillEmAll end well]].
Noted as being a prime example of {{Gorn}}, this picture has so much bloodshed it almost comes off as a non-comedic splatter film. [[UpToEleven By the end, there is probably not one inch of Sarah's house that isn't soaked in blood and guts]]. Suffice to say, Nightmare Fuel and NauseaFuel are in high supply.
[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Shouldn't be confused with]] the 2016 game ''VideoGame/{{Inside}}'', though both are very dark and known for NauseaFuel.
'''Note: Due to the nature of the film, many of these tropes contain massive spoilers. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''
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!! This film provides examples of the following tropes:
* AccidentalMurder: Hearing someone approach, Sarah attacks them with a knitting needle. [[spoiler:It's actually her own mother]].
* AdultFear: Losing their child to another woman is indeed a very deep-rooted fear for most women.
* AerosolFlamethrower: Towards the climax of the film, [[spoiler:Sarah sprays La Femme with a canister as the latter leans over her and lights a cigarette, setting her head on fire]].
* AlliterativeName: Sarah Scarangelo.
* AxCrazy: A more lucid, but no less violent, example.
* AxeBeforeEntering: La Femme never succeeds in actually breaking through the washroom door, but does punch little holes in it with her scissors.
* BabyBeMine: La Femme's intentions.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:La Femme succeeds in cornering and disemboweling Sarah, killing her, to get the baby. It's left ambiguous if the baby itself survived or not.]]
** [[spoiler: Averted with the ending of the remake however, as La Femme drowns and Sarah's able to give birth ala water birth]].
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Just in case you weren't sure how villainous La Femme really is, her snapping Sarah's cat's neck should do the trick.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Subverted. Sarah is slashed across her mouth with a pair of scissors. [[spoiler:La Femme is seriously disfigured via Sarah's AerosolFlamethrower.]]
* BladeOnAStick: Sarah creates a makeshift spear, though La Femme ends up being the wielder, using it to kill the final officer.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Sarah, on several occasions.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Sarah spends roughly ninety percent of the film covered in blood.
* BoomHeadshot: The second officer's death.
* {{Bowdlerized}}: The version available at most Blockbusters apparently cut out around seven minutes.
* CameraFiend: Sarah. Comes with being a photojournalist.
* CampingACrapper: As the second officer is helping Sarah out of the washroom, La Femme appears to blow his head off.
* ChainedHeat: The third officer is forced to drag Abdel along by a leash he also attaches himself to while looking around Sarah's house.
* DeathByAdaptation / SparedByAdaptation: The remake changes the fates of [[spoiler:La Femme and Sarah]] to have the former die in the end and the latter survive.
* {{Determinator}}: La Femme will stop at nothing to get Sarah's baby, not even [[spoiler: getting half of her face melted off.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: Just as Sarah gains the upper hand, [[spoiler:an officer that we were lead to believe La Femme had earlier killed turns out to still be alive, and in a deranged state he attacks Sarah, causing her to go into labor and become helpless]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:As tragic as the accident was, there's no indication that Sarah is to blame. This doesn't stop La Femme for wanting Sarah's baby in exchange for the one she lost.]]
* DuctTapeForEverything: After [[spoiler:giving herself a tracheotomy]], Sarah [[spoiler:duct tapes the wound]].
%%* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Sarah.
%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: La Femme.
* EnhanceButton: Sarah takes a photo of La Femme standing outside her house, but the lighting is so poor she can hardly make out her appearance. She calls her editor to ask him if he can blow up the photo.
* EvilIsPetty: La Femme randomly kills [[spoiler:Sarah's cat]] by crushing its head.
%%* EyeScream: The first officer's death; the third also seems to be missing his eyes [[spoiler:when he reappears]].
%%* FaceRevealingTurn: Done with the deranged and disfigured third officer.
* FacialHorror: When [[spoiler:Sarah sprays an aerosol can at La Femme while she lights up for a cigarette. The resulting third-degree facial burns, hair loss, and disfigurement are far from pretty.]]
%%* FadeToBlack
* FamousLastWords:
** [[spoiler:Louise]]: "Sarah?"
** [[spoiler:Jean-Pierre]]: "Sarah?"
** BAC Policeman #1: "No, no!"
** BAC Policeman #2: "Oh my fucking God..."
** [[spoiler:Abdel]]: "Hey lady, hey lady! She's still here! Come on, get up! Come on, get up! Fuck! Where the fuck are your keys!?"
** [[spoiler:Sarah]]: "Mommy, mommy!"
%%* FatalFamilyPhoto: The third police officer gets a call from his wife or girlfriend.
* FinalGirl: Subverted. [[spoiler:Sarah starts out as a DamselInDistress, but she eventually graduates to ActionSurvivor status despite being ''this close'' to giving birth. While she does a serious number on La Femme, it wasn't enough since Sarah still gets killed at the end.]]
* {{Flashback}}: Near the end, the opening car crash is reshown [[spoiler:from La Femme's perspective.]]
* ForeignRemake: After some time in DevelopmentHell, a North American remake materialized in 2017, ten years after the film's initial release.
* ForTheEvulz: Sarah claims the rioter's real motive is just being destructive for it's own sake.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:La Femme was the other driver in the crash that killed Matthieu, and lost her baby in it, something she came to blame on Sarah]].
%%* GetAholdOfYourselfMan
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: An unkind nurse (who does it in the hospital right next to Sarah, no less) and La Femme are the only characters shown smoking.
* {{Gorn}}: When the title credits play over rippling pools of blood with what appears to be fetuses in them, you know you're in for a messy ride.
* GroinAttack: La Femme stabs Jean-Pierre in the crotch with her scissors.
%%* GrossUpCloseUp: In a film this gory, that it contains many of these should hardly come as a surprise.
%%* HatesBeingTouched: La Femme.
%%* HeartbeatSoundtrack
%%* HeroicBSOD: What Sarah spends most of the film in.
* HighPressureBlood: While the film tends to be more realistic than other slashers when it comes to the {{Gorn}}, this still occurs from time to time. Most notably, [[spoiler:the bloody geyser erupting from Louise's neck when she is ambushed and killed by Sarah]].
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Various people stopping by, and the deranged final officer attacking Sarah and rendering her completely helpless just after she overpowers La Femme]].
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The film is set around Christmas.
%%* HospitalHottie: A nurse.
%%* IceQueen: The initial impression given by Sarah.
* IdiotBall: La Femme insisting Jean-Pierre stay for drinks instead of just letting him leave, three different police all failing to use their radio to call for help (including one who has just heard gunshots), and Sarah simply dropping the handgun that the police gave her.
* ImpaledPalm: La Femme stabs a pair of scissors through Sarah's hand into a wall, preventing Sarah from moving.
* ImperiledInPregnancy: Basically the premise of the film. Pregnant woman is attacked by a stranger who wants to steal her baby. With scissors. [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday During Christmas Eve]].
%%* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: La Femme.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: La Femme's primary weapons are a knitting needle and a pair of scissors.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Early on, Sarah uses a lamp to bash La Femme, who later returns the favor by bludgeoning Sarah with a toaster.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler:Sarah]] does this to herself towards the end of the film as well.
* InstantDramaJustAddTracheotomy: Choking on her own blood, Sarah resorts to this.
%%* INeverToldYouMyName: "Your husband's not sleeping Sarah. He's dead."
* IWantMyMommy: In a dramatic use of this, Sarah is reduced to screaming for her mother as [[spoiler:La Femme cuts her womb open]].
%%* {{Jerkass}}: The elderly hospital nurse.
* KickTheDog: La Femme murdering [[spoiler:Sarah's cat]].
* KillEmAll: By the end of the film, only [[spoiler:La Femme and Sarah's baby]] are alive, but even then it's debatable as to if the latter survived.
* ManBitesMan: Sarah bites La Femme's lower lip off.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: La Femme's line that Sarah already killed her once, along with Sarah being told that no one else survived the car crash, fuels this.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: La Femme appears wandering around several times, in a very [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]]-esque fashion.
%%* {{Meganekko}}: Louise.
%%* MirroredConfrontationShot
* NightmareSequence: Sarah vomiting up her baby.
* NoNameGiven: La Femme, and every officer.
* NothingUpMySleeve: Where La Femme keeps most of her makeshift weapons.
* NotQuiteDead: Jean-Pierre, and the third police officer.
* NumberOfTheBeast: Sarah's house is number 666.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Louise doesn't look too much older than her daughter Sarah, and this was probably Jean-Pierre's thought when La Femme pretended to be Louise.
* OfCorsetsSexy: La Femme, though she discards it early on.
%%* OminousFog
* OneWordTitle: The English title is ''Inside''.
* OrificeEvacuation: Sarah has a nightmare about her baby forcing its way out of her mouth.
* [[PaintTheTownRed Paint the House Red]]: TheMovie
* PeekABangs: La Femme.
* PetTheDog: Subverted. [[spoiler:After petting and coddling the cat, La Femme crushes its skull in her bare hands, and casually throws the body aside.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: The police are powerless to stop La Femme. [[spoiler:Three of them check in on Sarah, and despite outnumbering La Femme and being armed, all of them are quickly butchered.]]
* PottyFailure: After holing up in the washroom, Sarah pees herself (or her water breaks, whichever).
* PregnantBadass: What Sarah is forced to become.
%%* PrecisionFStrike
* ReactionShot: Mostly from the fetus.
* RedShirt: Abdel, a suspected vandal arrested by some officers sent to check in on Sarah.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The backdrop of the Paris riots.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:La Femme was the other driver in the accident that killed Matthieu, and miscarried because of it]].
* ShearMenace: La Femme's weapon of choice is a long pair of scissors.
* ShirtlessScene: Sarah has a fantasy about her dead husband Matthieu in which he's shirtless.
* ShrineToTheFallen: Sarah has erected one for Matthieu.
* SickeningCrunch: [[spoiler:Sarah's cat]] getting its head crushed.
%%* SinisterSilhouettes
%%* SlashedThroat: How [[spoiler:Jean-Pierre]] is killed.
%%* StalkerWithoutACrush: La Femme.
%%* StuffedInTheFridge: Matthieu.
%%* TitleIn: Four months later.
* TokenMinority: Abdel is the only character with north African heritage in a cast otherwise made up of French people.
* TooDumbToLive: The officers, who fail to radio for help even after they've heard the gunshots.
* TraumaticCSection: [[spoiler:La Femme performs an impromptu one on Sarah at the end of the film. Sarah doesn't survive.]]
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: A depressed Sarah imagines Matthieu caressing her, but this is cut short by a shot of him having his head smashed into a windshield.
%%* TurnOfTheMillennium
%%* TwistedChristmas
* TwoFaced: La Femme, after [[spoiler:being burned]].
* {{Undercrank}}: Randomly used in a scene where La Femme lights up a cigarette.
%%* UnnaturallyBlueLighting
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Happens to Sarah as a symptom of her pregnancy.
%%* WaitHere
* WindowPain: Early on, La Femme smashes one of Sarah's windows as an intimidation tactic.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Sarah wears a white nightgown for most of the film. By the end, it's completely red.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: La Femme was driven insane [[spoiler:by the loss of her unborn child]].
* {{Yandere}}: La Femme is an incredibly rare ''platonic'' example. She will do anything - and we mean ''[[KillEmAll anything]]'' - to ensure that she can have [[spoiler:Sarah's baby]] all to herself.
* YourHeadAsplode: The second officer's death.
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[[caption-width-right:350: [- Much like roller coasters and hard liquor, the pregnant should stay well away from this. -] ]]
-> ''"Open it, Sarah. Don't be afraid. You don't want that child. I'll take good care of him..."''
-->-- '''La Femme'''
''Inside'' ("''À l'intérieur''") is a French home-invasion [[HorrorFilms horror film]] released in 2007 and co-directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, noted for its extreme gore and violence.
On a bleak, rainy day a pregnant photojournalist named Sarah Scarangelo is involved in a grisly two vehicle crash, an accident that kills her husband, Matthieu. Skipping ahead four months, the film depicts a now bitter, detached, and depressed Sarah being told by her doctor that she should go into labor the next day, Christmas. Preferring to be alone to wait out the inevitable birth, Sarah blows off her mother, Louise, and is given a lift home by her boss, Jean-Pierre, who she arranges to have drive her to the hospital the next morning.
As Sarah tries to get comfortable in her desolate little house, her attempts at rest and relaxation are interrupted by a knock at the door. A mysterious woman with a pair of scissors (referred to simply as [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep "La Femme"]]) asks if she can borrow Sarah's phone because her car broke down. When Sarah refuses, La Femme refers to Sarah by name and reveals she knows about the car accident which took Matthieu's life...
Needless to say, [[{{Gorn}} things]] [[AnyoneCanDie do not]] [[KillEmAll end well]].
Noted as being a prime example of {{Gorn}}, this picture has so much bloodshed it almost comes off as a non-comedic splatter film. [[UpToEleven By the end, there is probably not one inch of Sarah's house that isn't soaked in blood and guts]]. Suffice to say, Nightmare Fuel and NauseaFuel are in high supply.
[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Shouldn't be confused with]] the 2016 game ''VideoGame/{{Inside}}'', though both are very dark and known for NauseaFuel.
'''Note: Due to the nature of the film, many of these tropes contain massive spoilers. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''
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!! This film provides examples of the following tropes:
* AccidentalMurder: Hearing someone approach, Sarah attacks them with a knitting needle. [[spoiler:It's actually her own mother]].
* AdultFear: Losing their child to another woman is indeed a very deep-rooted fear for most women.
* AerosolFlamethrower: Towards the climax of the film, [[spoiler:Sarah sprays La Femme with a canister as the latter leans over her and lights a cigarette, setting her head on fire]].
* AlliterativeName: Sarah Scarangelo.
* AxCrazy: A more lucid, but no less violent, example.
* AxeBeforeEntering: La Femme never succeeds in actually breaking through the washroom door, but does punch little holes in it with her scissors.
* BabyBeMine: La Femme's intentions.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:La Femme succeeds in cornering and disemboweling Sarah, killing her, to get the baby. It's left ambiguous if the baby itself survived or not.]]
** [[spoiler: Averted with the ending of the remake however, as La Femme drowns and Sarah's able to give birth ala water birth]].
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Just in case you weren't sure how villainous La Femme really is, her snapping Sarah's cat's neck should do the trick.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Subverted. Sarah is slashed across her mouth with a pair of scissors. [[spoiler:La Femme is seriously disfigured via Sarah's AerosolFlamethrower.]]
* BladeOnAStick: Sarah creates a makeshift spear, though La Femme ends up being the wielder, using it to kill the final officer.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Sarah, on several occasions.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Sarah spends roughly ninety percent of the film covered in blood.
* BoomHeadshot: The second officer's death.
* {{Bowdlerized}}: The version available at most Blockbusters apparently cut out around seven minutes.
* CameraFiend: Sarah. Comes with being a photojournalist.
* CampingACrapper: As the second officer is helping Sarah out of the washroom, La Femme appears to blow his head off.
* ChainedHeat: The third officer is forced to drag Abdel along by a leash he also attaches himself to while looking around Sarah's house.
* DeathByAdaptation / SparedByAdaptation: The remake changes the fates of [[spoiler:La Femme and Sarah]] to have the former die in the end and the latter survive.
* {{Determinator}}: La Femme will stop at nothing to get Sarah's baby, not even [[spoiler: getting half of her face melted off.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: Just as Sarah gains the upper hand, [[spoiler:an officer that we were lead to believe La Femme had earlier killed turns out to still be alive, and in a deranged state he attacks Sarah, causing her to go into labor and become helpless]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:As tragic as the accident was, there's no indication that Sarah is to blame. This doesn't stop La Femme for wanting Sarah's baby in exchange for the one she lost.]]
* DuctTapeForEverything: After [[spoiler:giving herself a tracheotomy]], Sarah [[spoiler:duct tapes the wound]].
%%* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Sarah.
%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: La Femme.
* EnhanceButton: Sarah takes a photo of La Femme standing outside her house, but the lighting is so poor she can hardly make out her appearance. She calls her editor to ask him if he can blow up the photo.
* EvilIsPetty: La Femme randomly kills [[spoiler:Sarah's cat]] by crushing its head.
%%* EyeScream: The first officer's death; the third also seems to be missing his eyes [[spoiler:when he reappears]].
%%* FaceRevealingTurn: Done with the deranged and disfigured third officer.
* FacialHorror: When [[spoiler:Sarah sprays an aerosol can at La Femme while she lights up for a cigarette. The resulting third-degree facial burns, hair loss, and disfigurement are far from pretty.]]
%%* FadeToBlack
* FamousLastWords:
** [[spoiler:Louise]]: "Sarah?"
** [[spoiler:Jean-Pierre]]: "Sarah?"
** BAC Policeman #1: "No, no!"
** BAC Policeman #2: "Oh my fucking God..."
** [[spoiler:Abdel]]: "Hey lady, hey lady! She's still here! Come on, get up! Come on, get up! Fuck! Where the fuck are your keys!?"
** [[spoiler:Sarah]]: "Mommy, mommy!"
%%* FatalFamilyPhoto: The third police officer gets a call from his wife or girlfriend.
* FinalGirl: Subverted. [[spoiler:Sarah starts out as a DamselInDistress, but she eventually graduates to ActionSurvivor status despite being ''this close'' to giving birth. While she does a serious number on La Femme, it wasn't enough since Sarah still gets killed at the end.]]
* {{Flashback}}: Near the end, the opening car crash is reshown [[spoiler:from La Femme's perspective.]]
* ForeignRemake: After some time in DevelopmentHell, a North American remake materialized in 2017, ten years after the film's initial release.
* ForTheEvulz: Sarah claims the rioter's real motive is just being destructive for it's own sake.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:La Femme was the other driver in the crash that killed Matthieu, and lost her baby in it, something she came to blame on Sarah]].
%%* GetAholdOfYourselfMan
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: An unkind nurse (who does it in the hospital right next to Sarah, no less) and La Femme are the only characters shown smoking.
* {{Gorn}}: When the title credits play over rippling pools of blood with what appears to be fetuses in them, you know you're in for a messy ride.
* GroinAttack: La Femme stabs Jean-Pierre in the crotch with her scissors.
%%* GrossUpCloseUp: In a film this gory, that it contains many of these should hardly come as a surprise.
%%* HatesBeingTouched: La Femme.
%%* HeartbeatSoundtrack
%%* HeroicBSOD: What Sarah spends most of the film in.
* HighPressureBlood: While the film tends to be more realistic than other slashers when it comes to the {{Gorn}}, this still occurs from time to time. Most notably, [[spoiler:the bloody geyser erupting from Louise's neck when she is ambushed and killed by Sarah]].
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Various people stopping by, and the deranged final officer attacking Sarah and rendering her completely helpless just after she overpowers La Femme]].
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The film is set around Christmas.
%%* HospitalHottie: A nurse.
%%* IceQueen: The initial impression given by Sarah.
* IdiotBall: La Femme insisting Jean-Pierre stay for drinks instead of just letting him leave, three different police all failing to use their radio to call for help (including one who has just heard gunshots), and Sarah simply dropping the handgun that the police gave her.
* ImpaledPalm: La Femme stabs a pair of scissors through Sarah's hand into a wall, preventing Sarah from moving.
* ImperiledInPregnancy: Basically the premise of the film. Pregnant woman is attacked by a stranger who wants to steal her baby. With scissors. [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday During Christmas Eve]].
%%* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: La Femme.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: La Femme's primary weapons are a knitting needle and a pair of scissors.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Early on, Sarah uses a lamp to bash La Femme, who later returns the favor by bludgeoning Sarah with a toaster.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler:Sarah]] does this to herself towards the end of the film as well.
* InstantDramaJustAddTracheotomy: Choking on her own blood, Sarah resorts to this.
%%* INeverToldYouMyName: "Your husband's not sleeping Sarah. He's dead."
* IWantMyMommy: In a dramatic use of this, Sarah is reduced to screaming for her mother as [[spoiler:La Femme cuts her womb open]].
%%* {{Jerkass}}: The elderly hospital nurse.
* KickTheDog: La Femme murdering [[spoiler:Sarah's cat]].
* KillEmAll: By the end of the film, only [[spoiler:La Femme and Sarah's baby]] are alive, but even then it's debatable as to if the latter survived.
* ManBitesMan: Sarah bites La Femme's lower lip off.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: La Femme's line that Sarah already killed her once, along with Sarah being told that no one else survived the car crash, fuels this.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: La Femme appears wandering around several times, in a very [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]]-esque fashion.
%%* {{Meganekko}}: Louise.
%%* MirroredConfrontationShot
* NightmareSequence: Sarah vomiting up her baby.
* NoNameGiven: La Femme, and every officer.
* NothingUpMySleeve: Where La Femme keeps most of her makeshift weapons.
* NotQuiteDead: Jean-Pierre, and the third police officer.
* NumberOfTheBeast: Sarah's house is number 666.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Louise doesn't look too much older than her daughter Sarah, and this was probably Jean-Pierre's thought when La Femme pretended to be Louise.
* OfCorsetsSexy: La Femme, though she discards it early on.
%%* OminousFog
* OneWordTitle: The English title is ''Inside''.
* OrificeEvacuation: Sarah has a nightmare about her baby forcing its way out of her mouth.
* [[PaintTheTownRed Paint the House Red]]: TheMovie
* PeekABangs: La Femme.
* PetTheDog: Subverted. [[spoiler:After petting and coddling the cat, La Femme crushes its skull in her bare hands, and casually throws the body aside.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: The police are powerless to stop La Femme. [[spoiler:Three of them check in on Sarah, and despite outnumbering La Femme and being armed, all of them are quickly butchered.]]
* PottyFailure: After holing up in the washroom, Sarah pees herself (or her water breaks, whichever).
* PregnantBadass: What Sarah is forced to become.
%%* PrecisionFStrike
* ReactionShot: Mostly from the fetus.
* RedShirt: Abdel, a suspected vandal arrested by some officers sent to check in on Sarah.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The backdrop of the Paris riots.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:La Femme was the other driver in the accident that killed Matthieu, and miscarried because of it]].
* ShearMenace: La Femme's weapon of choice is a long pair of scissors.
* ShirtlessScene: Sarah has a fantasy about her dead husband Matthieu in which he's shirtless.
* ShrineToTheFallen: Sarah has erected one for Matthieu.
* SickeningCrunch: [[spoiler:Sarah's cat]] getting its head crushed.
%%* SinisterSilhouettes
%%* SlashedThroat: How [[spoiler:Jean-Pierre]] is killed.
%%* StalkerWithoutACrush: La Femme.
%%* StuffedInTheFridge: Matthieu.
%%* TitleIn: Four months later.
* TokenMinority: Abdel is the only character with north African heritage in a cast otherwise made up of French people.
* TooDumbToLive: The officers, who fail to radio for help even after they've heard the gunshots.
* TraumaticCSection: [[spoiler:La Femme performs an impromptu one on Sarah at the end of the film. Sarah doesn't survive.]]
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: A depressed Sarah imagines Matthieu caressing her, but this is cut short by a shot of him having his head smashed into a windshield.
%%* TurnOfTheMillennium
%%* TwistedChristmas
* TwoFaced: La Femme, after [[spoiler:being burned]].
* {{Undercrank}}: Randomly used in a scene where La Femme lights up a cigarette.
%%* UnnaturallyBlueLighting
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Happens to Sarah as a symptom of her pregnancy.
%%* WaitHere
* WindowPain: Early on, La Femme smashes one of Sarah's windows as an intimidation tactic.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Sarah wears a white nightgown for most of the film. By the end, it's completely red.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: La Femme was driven insane [[spoiler:by the loss of her unborn child]].
* {{Yandere}}: La Femme is an incredibly rare ''platonic'' example. She will do anything - and we mean ''[[KillEmAll anything]]'' - to ensure that she can have [[spoiler:Sarah's baby]] all to herself.
* YourHeadAsplode: The second officer's death.
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