It Lives Inside | Film Review

I didn't know anything about this movie before it came out, but I'm always looking for new horror movies so I wanted to check this one out.

Sam (Megan Suri) rejects her East Indian culture to fit in at school. But when her former best friend is attacked by a demonic spirit, she has to embrace her heritage to defeat it once and for all.

I liked this film. It wasn't amazing, and I definitely had problems with it, but it also had a good, unique concept.

At the beginning of the movie there was a lot of screaming and suspenseful music with not much happening, and after a while this made the screams and scares less effective.

I love that it deals with the idea of identity, and uses horror to do that.

I really liked the characters, especially Sam, who was a great protagonist to follow.

Even though the film isn't that long, it moves slower than it needs to. At least 15 minutes could have been cut to make it a packed, interesting 85-minute movie.

There were too many dream sequences that made me have less trust in what was actually happening.

The legend the spirit is based on is really interesting, but the idea isn't fleshed out enough. There are a lot of unanswered questions.

The ending is actually better than a lot of other things that happen in the film.

Overall, this movie was entertaining and worth watching, but it wasn't as good as it could have been.

5/10