The Devil Inside is an American supernatural

Supernatural

The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature...

 horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 directed and co-written by William Brent Bell

William Brent Bell

William Brent Bell is an American screenwriter and film director.-Life and career:Bell was born in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1999, Bell wrote and directed his first feature, Sparkle and Charm...

, as a documentary-style film about a woman who becomes involved in a series of exorcisms during her quest to determine what happened to her mother, a woman who murdered three people as a result of being possessed by a demon

Demonic possession

Demonic possession is held by many belief systems to be the control of an individual by a malevolent supernatural being. Descriptions of demonic possessions often include erased memories or personalities, convulsions, “fits” and fainting as if one were dying...

. Produced by Morris Paulson and Matthew Peterman

Matthew Peterman

Matthew Peterman is an American screenwriter and film producer. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky.In 2000, along with writing partner William Brent Bell, Peterman wrote screenplay Mercury, which was bought by Universal Studios with Gale Anne Hurd and f/x studio Digital Domain producing. Since...

,, the film stars Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman

Simon Quarterman

Simon Quarterman is a British actor.He has appeared in many British television shows, including Down to Earth, Midsomer Murders, Holby City and EastEnders, playing Paul Jenkins, and the miniseries Victoria & Albert. He is one of the main characters in The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a...

, Evan Helmuth and Suzan Crowley, and is slated to be released theatrically on February 24, 2012.

Background

Director Bell, and Morris Paulson and Matthew Peterman

Matthew Peterman

Matthew Peterman is an American screenwriter and film producer. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky.In 2000, along with writing partner William Brent Bell, Peterman wrote screenplay Mercury, which was bought by Universal Studios with Gale Anne Hurd and f/x studio Digital Domain producing. Since...

 shot the film in 2010 in several different locations, including Bucharest, Romania, Rome, Lazio, Italy, and Vatican City. Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

-Life and career:He spent the 1990s as an executive at Warner Bros. Pictures, eventually rising to President of Worldwide Production. His production company di Bonaventura Pictures is based at Paramount Pictures. His tenure at Warner Bros. included discovering and shepherding The Matrix into...

 and Steven Schneider brought the movie to Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

, and their low-budget branch, Paramount Insurge acquired the film, hoping it would be its next Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity (film)

Paranormal Activity is a 2007 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Oren Peli. The film centers on a young couple, Katie and Micah, who are haunted by a supernatural presence in their home...

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Plot

On October 30, 1989, Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) committed 3 murders during an exorcism performed on her. She has since been in a psychiatric hospital in the Holy Church in Rome.

20 years later, her daughter Isabelle(Fernanda Andrade) and a film crew try to find a Pastor/scientest to help Maria. Isabelle starts to question if she herself will one day be possessed. Maria's possession proves to be unlike anything in the history of Christianity. It goes horribly wrong and the only piece of evidence is the footage caught by the film crew.

Cast

• Fernanda Andrade as Isabella Rossi
• Simon Quarterman
  Simon Quarterman
  Simon Quarterman is a British actor.He has appeared in many British television shows, including Down to Earth, Midsomer Murders, Holby City and EastEnders, playing Paul Jenkins, and the miniseries Victoria & Albert. He is one of the main characters in The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a...
  
   as Ben
• Evan Helmuth as David
• Ionut Grama as Michael
• Suzan Crowley as Maria Rossi
• Bonnie Morgan as Rosa
• Brian Johnson
  Brian Johnson
  Brian Johnson is an English singer and lyricist who has been the lead singer for the rock band AC/DC since 1980. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 along with the other members of the band....
  
  as Lieutenant Dreyfus
• Preston James Hillier as Male Reporter
• D.T. Carney as Detective