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It Lives Inside | Film Review

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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 sequen...