It Feeds | Film Review

 

A clairvoyant therapist (Ashley Greene) tries to help a girl who believes a dangerous entity is feeding on her.

I hadn't heard much about this film before watching it, but the premise seemed original and interesting, and this has been a great year for original horror movies so of course I was going to check it out!

Unfortunately the film was a bit disappointing.

The first thing I noticed about the film was that despite it being original, in terms of actually being scary, the jump scares are doing a lot of the heavy lifting. In the long run it probably would have been better to prioritise a good story over scares.

The order of events in the film were really weird - the first 40 minutes felt like it should have been the last 40 minutes, and it might have been a better structured film if that was the case.

The characters were likeable and enjoyable to watch, but the film itself got progressively less enjoyable as it continued.

Ultimately it tries to do too much and introduce too many ideas, and because of that, it doesn't do anything particularly well.

And in the last 20 minutes, everything good about the film just got lost in the weird ending.

So overall, this was a disappointment because so many interesting things could have been created from the bones of this idea, and instead everything good was wasted. So while it was enjoyable up to a point, it's not one I'd particularly recommend.

4/10