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In a small Florida town, deep below the surface, there’s a sludgy, slimy mud that doesn’t evaporate. When a nearby university hires Joe (Joe Abby) to drill for it, they unwittingly unleash a virus that’s so bizarre that no one figures it out until the whole town—and parts of the university—are infected.
Allen (Corey Feldman) is bored with his job and decides that he wants to settle down with his girlfriend, Maria (Tanya Memme). But when he asks her to marry him, he gets a lukewarm response, so he backs off and gives her some space. After a month, he returns home to a town that’s gone insane. People (including Maria) are hurting themselves in uncanny ways, and they seem to derive great pleasure from it.
When the townsfolk start dying after going too far with their masochistic activities, Allen becomes desperate to save his girlfriend—but then he catches the virus himself. With limited time, he fights to come up with a cure before it kills everyone and spreads beyond the small town.
Terror Inside is the first movie that I’ve seen with Corey Feldman in an adult role—and I was not impressed. He seemed to slip back into his teenage persona too easily, and I kept expecting him to bust out with the word “dude” as only Feldman can say it. Watching his sex scenes, too, just plain creeped me out.
Tanya Memme on the other hand, does an awesome job as Maria, going from a sweet waitress in a small town to a masochistic bad girl who doesn’t understand what’s happening to her. While I winced at all of the other actors’ attempts at acting, Memme kept me hanging in there. She’s an actress that I’ll definitely look for in other movies.
Bad acting aside, though, Terror Inside gave me the creeps—and a couple of scenes actually had me hiding my face in a pillow (which I rarely do while watching horror movies). But some of the other scenes were painfully disturbing to watch, and I still shudder just thinking about them.
The ending, too, when it finally came, was a letdown—because the problem was solved way too easily. Still, Terror Inside will keep you interested, mostly because it’s so hard to stop watching such bizarre scenes of self-mutilation. I definitely recommend, however, that the squeamish skip this one.
