Inside is home to moments that will shock, scare, disturb, and leave you gasping. It's a trip to the dark side that's well worth taking." Joe Leydon of Variety wrote that the film "generates a fair amount of suspense during sizable swaths of its familiar but serviceable exorcism-centric scenario." Legacy The film's commercial success despite negative critical and audience reaction made it one of several that led studios to reconsider their longtime practice of confining horror films to the dump months and Halloween season. "For years, horror movies made $19–20 million in a January release. They would take the weekend and that would be it," C. Robert Cargill of Ain't It Cool News told Hollywood.com. "But The Devil Inside proved that even in our worst dumping ground, you can appeal to a market that won't see movies, and in fact they'll throw money at a terrible movie if it looks like it's good. I mean, $35 million is sick money for an opening weekend for a film that cost, what, $250,000?" See also Exorcism in Christianity Notes References External links Archived copy of the Rossi Files website linked in the film 2012 films 2012 horror films 2010s English-language films 2010s supernatural horror films American supernatural horror films Demons in film Films about exorcism Films directed by William Brent Bell Films scored by Brett Detar Films set in 1989 Films set in 2009 Films set in Rome Films shot in Bucharest Films shot in Rome Found footage films Paramount Pictures films 2010s American films