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| Directed by | D. J. Caruso |
| Written by | D. J. Caruso |
| Produced by | Jennifer Barrons Jules Daly Tracie Norfleet |
| Starring | Emmy Rossum Molly Hagan Jake Abel |
| Cinematography | Mauro Fiore |
| Edited by | Josh Bodnar |
| Music by | Brian Tyler |
Production companies | RSA Films B-Reel |
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Running time | 52 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Inside is a 2011 Americansocialhorrorthriller film brought to viewers through a partnership betweenIntel andToshiba.
Directed and written byD. J. Caruso and starringEmmy Rossum, the experience is broken up into several segments across multiplesocial media platforms, includingFacebook,YouTube, andTwitter.[1] Viewers are challenged to help Rossum's character, Christina, to safely escape her predicament. The film bears some similarities to the non-social 2008 filmUntraceable in that it involves kidnapping and an Internet audience as part of the plot.
The first in a series of episodes was released on the website on July 25, 2011 for those participating in the "real-time experience".[2] The whole film became available for online viewing on September 6, 2011 on their website,[3] though both the website and YouTube channel no longer exist.
Twenty-four-year-old Christina Perasso, a tough, resilient girl, wakes up trapped in a room and has no idea where she is being held or who did this to her. She has been left access to her laptop. Through the use of an intermittentWi-Fi signal, she reaches out to friends, family and an audience through social media. She lists facts, clues, pictures and videos to aid the audience in figuring out where she is, who her captor is, and why she was kidnapped.