It Lives Inside

Name: It Lives Inside
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Released: September 22, 2023
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 50
Cast: Betty Gabriel, Gage Marsh, Jamie Ives, Megan Suri, Mohana Krishnan

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Neon | Release Date: September 22, 2023 | PG-13

Starring: Betty Gabriel, Gage Marsh, Jamie Ives, Megan Suri, Mohana Krishnan, Neeru Bajwa, Paige Shaw, Saisha Muni, Sangeeta Wylie, Siddhartha Minhas, Vik Sahay

Summary: Sam is desperate to fit in at school, rejecting her Indian culture and family to be like everyone else. When a mythological demonic spirit latches onto her former best friend, she must come to terms with her heritage in order to defeat it.

Director: Bishal Dutta

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Horror

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 99 min

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Jen Yamato

Sep 22, 2023

Proving her own star quality, a committed Suri guides Sam through a journey of identity and final-girl heroics that brings satisfying healing to her strained relationship with her mother. Read full review

Brandon Yu

Sep 21, 2023

It’s a promising debut from Dutta, who offers a fresh premise that proves a natural fit for the genre. Read full review

David Fear

Sep 22, 2023

It Lives Inside knows you can use the cover of monsters and things that go bump in your psyche to examine the real-life horrors. But when the message starts to eclipse the medium, it’s time to get out. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Robert Daniels

Sep 22, 2023

What follows is a movie that wants to be a teen movie and an allegory for the immigrant experience but never wholly coheres. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Sep 20, 2023

It Lives Inside shows that a generic, uncertain script isn’t improved with a single coat of paint, especially if the ugly original is bleeding through the patchy, translucent renovation. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Sep 20, 2023

A litany of jolt-focused dream sequences do little to escalate the tension or advance the plot, and Dutta — making his feature directorial debut — hasn’t developed a deep enough skill set for the scares to be as specific to his movie as Sam’s fears are to her immigrant experience. Read full review

Derek Smith

Aug 15, 2023

The film views its main character’s culture, as well as her struggles to suppress her identity in order to fit into her suburban world, with a nonchalance that often scans as negligence. Read full review

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