WHAT’S IT ABOUT
Desperate to fit in at school, Sam rejects her East Indian culture and family to be like everyone else. However, when a mythological demonic spirit latches onto her former best friend, she must come to terms with her heritage to defeat it.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
It Lives Inside tries to tell the story of an Indian entity known as Pischaca. By American standards, Pischaca would simply be the devil. Introducing evil in film is never a problem, but the way they tried to do it was. The director/producers tried too hard to include as much Indian culture regarding a “new to Americans” demon as possible. It was like being taken by the hand and having someone spoon-feed the mythological story to you one page at a time. With a slow-moving story, forgettable characters, and a plot with holes on top of holes, It Lives Inside is not what I hoped it would be. The opening was decent as it showed a mysterious mason jar that later was being carried by a Goth-looking East Indian high school girl. From there, every part of this film is overly cryptic. Tamira, the girl with the jar, tries to convince her best friend Samidha that there is a monster from our children’s stories inside the jar. Samidha wants to believe her, but she wants to be accepted by her new American friends more. And there lies the conflict that should have made this movie much better than it was, but the story drags on unnecessarily. Samidha is hit with Karma, her friend is missing, and the cultural children’s story Tamira wanted to warn her about has taken on a life of its own. At this point, the story starts straying from the parts of the Sanskrit that were read as Samidha looked for a solution to her entity problem. More bad things happened, but each occurrence of fear or horror was either so short you didn’t have enough time to care or so long you started cheering for Pischaca to kill them. Nothing in this movie stands out other than taking too long to get to the point. I hope the next time writers, directors, or producers want to introduce me to another cultural version of the devil, they should just put a scrolling description at the opening to explain what I was too lazy to look up. If they really want me to know the history that bad.
OUR RATING – MYTHOLOGICAL 4
MEDIA
- Genre – Horror
- Street date
- Digital – October 10th, 2023
- DVD/Blu-Ray – November 7th, 2023
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound –English: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: 2.0 Stereo Audio
- Subtitles – English, Spanish
Extras
- Theatrical trailer