Influences From Within.

I am a fan of horror movies. This is a complex of mine - to like something that scares the hell of me. There is something about horror movies that make me feel good or rather, feel better about life. Perhaps the part that goes, thank God I am not that girl who is being chase by a serial killer. Sure, I would love to scream and curse at the television over and over again while watching horror movies but never would I let my self be a character in one. I am too much of a coward to be one.

My friend recommended that I watched From Within today and so I did, because I have been dying to watch it ever since it came out on the review section of the lousy teen magazine I forced my self to buy twice every month (just so that I know how it feels to giddily go to the bookstore and fit my self into the community of teenagers who flipped through pages looking for saucy tips and trends).

Unfortunately, this movie isn’t as gore as any other horror movies would be. It is mediocre in its own perfection; it fills right in within its on perspective. Overall, a nice horror movie for the weak-hearted, a movie that fills in with depth and questions. This is a horror movie that rather than leaving you scared to switch off the lights at night, it makes you question the reflection of your self that you see every now and then in the mirror and ask your self what would influence you the worst.

To hardcore fans of horror movies, this might be quite too subtle for your taste but surely I did jump from scenes to scenes throughout the movie. Yes, it is too cautious for a horror movie but yes, it is a good horror movie too. I love the performance by Thomas Dekker and his on-screen partner, Elizabeth Rice. But what I really love about watching this kind of movies is that I could spot few names I know - Britt Robertson, Kelly Blatz, Rumer Willis, etc. Not really an outstanding cast lines, but quite a good one.

The movie relates to obsession to religion, excessive believe of there are only good and evil and not in between and the matter of influences. Because of different beliefs, people would blindly believe in everything to cling on their belief because somehow, it always goes like that. This is an obsession no one would admit. I would like to believe that there really is something in between good and evil, something that every human has but not yet discovered or is not properly explainable. This invincible thing between good and evil is what keep us all human, rather than being God or Devil.


After watching the movie, I realized that this movie talks about don’t let the evil take control of you from the inside. It is a simple horror movie that wouldn’t make you scream but enough to make you want to think. I like the sweet sorrow moments between the main characters that aren’t truly highlighted but it gives me such warm to see. Don’t like it? Well, you could just skip it. But you could watch it for Dekker though.

I like the movie for its complex simplicity that feels close to who we really are deep within our self. It reminds me of what I cling onto and what I truly believe in. I would never question my religion as I am faithful to it, but it question the trust I place upon many things that I live with. It makes me think that sometimes we aren’t influenced by our surroundings; we are influenced by our self, a voice that sometimes speaks to us from within.