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| director = D.W. Brown

| producer = George Elish
Michael D. Jones
Jamie Kennedy
Bart Rachmil
Michael Rachmil
Elsa Ramo
Mike Wittlin

| screenplay = D.W. Brown

| story = D.W. Brown

| music = Haim Mazar

| cinematography = David A. Armstrong

| editing = Bart Rachmil

| starring = Nick Stahl
Dash Mihok
Olivia Wilde

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| country = United States

| language = English

| budget = $4 million

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'On the Inside' is a 2012 thriller film written and directed by D.W Brown. The film was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on July 24, 2012.

Plot



Allen Meneric (Nick Stahl) is sent to a hospital for the criminally insane to be evaluated after he brutally murders his girlfriends alleged rapist. He very quickly becomes surrounded by evil psychopaths, people with seemingly mild personality disorders, sarcastic guards and indifferent doctors.



In a courtyard Allen has a chance meeting with Ben (Pruitt Taylor Vince). Ben's outgoing pleasant nature helps to initiate a friendship with Allen who is more inclined to keep to himself. Ben's state of mind, however, fluctuates and leads to endless droning, short-term memory loss, and occasional catatonic episodes as the film progresses.



Ben introduces Allen to Carl Tarses (Dash Mihok) who strikes fear into everyone he meets. He has deeply rooted emotional problems from parental abuse in his childhood. Terrorizing people gives Carl a sinister form of satisfaction. Things erupt between Carl and Allen after Carl describes some of his prior heinous acts to him.



Allen's good behavior gets him transferred to a minimum security section of the hospital where low risk males and females are able to interact. There he meets Mia (Olivia Wilde) who is both beautiful and bipolar. Mia and Allen instantly fall for each other and their budding romance causes them to smile and laugh for the first time. In a tragic twist of fate, Allen and Mia's private encounter, arranged by Mrs. Standings (Joanne Baron), a sincere and caring staff member, is violently interrupted by Tarses as he attempts to escape from the hospital.

Production



All of the filming took place in Pittsburgh in the Prospect Street School in the city's Mt. Washington neighborhood. Originally titled In Northwood, the film was renamed as part of the producers effort to shift the focus away from the facility where Allen Meneric (Nick Stahl) was committed to the demons lurking in the minds of all of the characters in the story.

Cast



Reception



Thomas Spurlin of DVDTalk said of the film: "Brown's film lacks the convincing expressive tension and thematic point it needs around the story's shocking turns to justify its gritty psychological approach, one wanting to latch onto a statement about innocuous persons within institutions that doesn't materialize." Mike Gencarelli gave the film three out of five stars, saying: "It was a decent surprise overall."

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