i must have seen a different film!!

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Absolutely amazing

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Most of the reviews are either complains about acting, or some praise directed towards unessential elements like where it was played or who did the cinematography etc.. I want to take this review to examine the actual storyline elements and show how this is actually a really good movie. Spoilers ahead.From the beginning we see a young "dark and moody" couple that are arguably really cliche, but if you watch the rest of the movie you will see that the young man who we witness his suicide by gun, that he is part of a completely destroyed family that the "locals" wrecked. It just so happens that the "Christians" in town burned his mom alive in a hut and covered it up to make it look like an accident because they thought his mom was a witch. So, the two "goth" boys basically flee but eventually come back. The older one is in fact, reciting a curse at the beginning of the movie ,and that he knowingly is going to sacrifice his girlfriend as well as part of this larger scheme of taking revenge on the whole city that burned his mom.Basically he's really wrong in doing this because its going to cost the life of his girlfriend, but at the same time he's trying to take vegeance for his mother against the town. What's interesting storywise is that this dynamic is rooted in both good and evil. Good because he loves his mother, so much so that he will act against those who killed her, but bad because paradoxically, he loves his mother too much that he can't see himself doing massive evil by killing his girlfriend (via the curse) as part of the necessary road to vegeance, which ironically, is exactly what Christians say about taking up the role of God to be the upon oneself to give judgement which is only going to lead to more misery. The movie's main villain is actually the boyfriend amped up by a good old witchhunt, literally. We are introduced to him in the most disgusting way, he starts talking about his penis to his girlfriend's daughter. He is clearly filth, yet he marches under the banner of God. i definitely think the movie wanted to play around with this idea of not just hypocrisy, but a social order that doesn't root out these villains and insteads enables and empowers them as leaders in their city.Yet at the same time the movie is presenting direct evidence of the eye-for-an-eye philosohpy that drives the older boy and its horrific consequences, that actually in some part, substantiate the claim of these disgusting so called Christians. I think in some ways, we are seeing a bit of the Hatfield and McCoys, and the tit-for-tat nature of vegeance. This is the core of my analysis, that the movie presents a very scary narrative in which many innocents are destroyed in this struggle, and we don't really side with anyone but are taken along for the ride. Very underrated horror movie and hats off the writer.

Is it even possible to find a town that deeply religious in Maryland? Why wouldn't the very well off witches not just move? The jocks at that high school would've torn Dylan apart with all his religious crap. these much well off witches would've had a arsenal in their house(if not a entire gun store)to fend off the religious nutters. Green shirt follower 40-50 something religious nutter was funny./Fedor8 had the funniest review that I seen in years.

The portrayal of Christians in this movie is so bad that you would have to be entirely ignorant of the religion to suspend your disbelief. You have Church members beating other people up, lying, fornicating, kidnapping, and committing all manner of violent crimes, and not despite their religion, but because of it, in the name of the lord. It ruins the whole film. It's like watching a movie about orthodox Jews and somehow they're all at Sonny's eating barbecue. It just doesn't happen. Or like watching a movie about the army where are all the rank insignia are wrong. If the Christians had been portrayed more realistically, like committing crimes without simultaneously preaching, or even more realistically, if they weren't portrayed as Christians at all, the movie would have been much better. It's too bad really. It was a good idea for a horror movie but the stupidly unrealistic portrayal of Christians ruined it.

Thoroughly well-made, well-acted, well-written, and well-photographed underground horror film. I was very pleasantly surprised by how well done everything seems to be here; the acting is far above average for this type of low-budget horror. Elizabeth Rice is a new face to me, but a beautiful one at that. The only person I easily recognize is Adam Goldberg of 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'The Salton Sea', and while he does well, his character is slightly forgettable.The story is fresh and original, and plays out something along the lines of 'Final Destination' meets 'The Blair Witch Project', but don't take my word for it, there is no gratuitous nudity or extreme amounts of bloody gore to be had here, just well made psychological trauma mostly. And I must say, unlike most endings, 'From Within' definitely pays off in the end. Highly recommended.FROM WITHIN -----8/10.