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- 2023
- PG-13
- Neon
- 1 h 39 m
- 2023
- PG-13
- Neon
- 1 h 39 m
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.
Written By: Bishal Dutta, Ashish Mehta
- 2023
- PG-13
- Neon
- 1 h 39 m
- 2023
- PG-13
- Neon
- 1 h 39 m
It Lives Inside
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3.7
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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.
Written By: Bishal Dutta, Ashish Mehta
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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13% Positive
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81% Mixed
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6% Negative
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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.
The potency of It Lives Inside — and why it might be worth checking out even if it isn’t wholly satisfying — lies in how it introduces Sam and Tamira’s relationship and links it to Hindu lore.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
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Um filme rodeado de clichês do gênero, e ainda filmado em grande parte em ambiente colegial. Ainda assim, pode garantir alguns minutos de diversão, mas infelizmente sem grandes sustos.
Um dos pontos altos do filme é a escolha por falar um pouco sobre a cultura do hinduísmo, sobre o qual houve um trato do roteiro sem cai em armadilhas estereotipadas.
No filme, há certa referência ao festival do Durga Puja, que é um dos festivais mais importantes e amplamente celebrados na Índia, principalmente na região de Bengala Ocidental, bem como em outras partes do país. Este festival marca a vitória da deusa Durga sobre o demônio Mahishasura, simbolizando o triunfo do bem sobre o mal. A celebração do Durga Puja dura geralmente dez dias, mas os principais dias de festividade são os últimos quatro dias. Durante esse período, as comunidades organizam elaboradas decorações, rituais religiosos, danças, música, teatro e eventos culturais. As pessoas se vestem com roupas novas e participam das atividades festivas com grande entusiasmo.
Assim, há menção a um demônio e formas de vencê-lo, as duas meninas hindus que eram amigas de infância irão adentrar no ensino médio meio separadas, pois a mais introvertida delas acaba influenciando a chance da outra de ser popular. Mas essa introversão da menina deve-se justamente ao "demônio" que vive dentro da garrafa de forma aprisionada, e claro que a outra garota, em um desentendimento, liberará o monstro e assim todo o roteiro irá se desenrolar numa tentativa de recuperar o monstro, mesmo com a garota tendo que resistir a expor a situação sobrenatural, já que afeta sua popularidade.
Logo, na hipótese mais generosa com o filme, trata-se de uma trama que permite discutir o estranho, como se a cultura hindu estivesse deslocada o suficiente para ser algo quase sobrenatural, e de foto o filme faz isso, mas pelo menos sem expor a cultura ao ridículo. É funcional ao roteiro, porém, na hora de arregaçar as mangas no terror, deixa muito a desejar, com cenas meio vergonha alheia.
Como de costume, as atuações não são o forte aqui. Então, é aproveitar a história para se entreter com algo raso, meio bobo até, mas que pelo menos pode garantir a imersão enquanto se assiste.
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The idea for this story was really cool - I love the unique demon type and the Hindi lore used within it. It's really unique to see a different pantheon of unknown cultural demonology incorporated into a modern retelling. I particularly enjoyed the idea of the demon swallower element added in for great effect, but it felt like it was a little prematurely laced together in some ways. It gave some foreshadow but then left a lot unsaid. Possibly due to the fact that may make a sequel, but there were a number of questions I had about the plot that weren't quite summarized. Still, a unique story and I'd recommend it to those who are enthused by demonic tales from cultures not typically depicted in mainstream theater films.
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When the first-time director Bishal Dutta does try to add freshness to the familiarity of formula, he manages to carve his film its own place within two overstuffed subgenres, flashes of intrigue as he veers between schlocky curse and even schlockier monster movie.
What follows is a movie that wants to be a teen movie and an allegory for the immigrant experience but never wholly coheres.
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.
Some fresh ideas spruce up this horror, but it’s an ambitious debut which forgets that less is more. A lack of focus is the real killer.
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.
The movie is an altered version of "It Follows" meets with Pumpkinhead. Although the movie tries to be original, the lack of powerful scenes and odd slow-mo scenes pushed me from totally not liking the movie. Not bad, triable.
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I can acknowledge this film's embrace of the subject of demons from an Indian perspective. Unfortunately, these days, horror films are often not content to be just that, as they necessitate the incorporation of a cultural backstory that ultimately has no significant impact on the climax or the final **** discrepancy between what this story intends to explore or communicate about an immigrant family's experience and what ultimately becomes the supernatural and horror experience is very noticeable. This disharmony is not conducive to the progression of the plot or the effectiveness of the horror moments.Ultimately, the skills of It Lives Inside adhere to a mold that seeks to adhere to the conventions of the genre, and herein lies the fundamental problem that plagues films like this one: the inability to balance the two narrative fronts they wish to address.
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This is a tutorial on what not to do in a folk horror film. Terrible writing and acting.
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The film was so subdued... The main actress was always in a state of paralysis, emotionally. The flow was the same... The film was full of the classic scenes you get in high school, adolescent horror movies but without any interesting lore, character building or action.
It was almost like the film didn't have time to make it interesting, because if had to fill it with scenes full of people who looked at each other awkwardly and didn't get each other.
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Production Company
Brightlight Pictures,
Neon,
QC Entertainment
Release Date Sep 22, 2023
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating PG-13
Awards
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination