The horror film It Lives Inside came out to rave reviews after it premiere at this year’s SXSW. Neon has picked it up for U.S. distribution, and its newly released trailer strongly suggests it’s a terrifying watch.
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Here’s the movie’s official synopsis:
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.
The demon, as the trailer explains, is called the Pishach, and it likes to “eat” its victims slowly rather than killing them off right away. It also appears to live in a glass mason jar, maybe? Good times!
“After I moved to North America from India at the age of four, a lot of my social education came from watching American horror films,” writer-director Bishal Dutta said in a statement about his horror debut. “I always wondered, what were families like mine doing while Bruce the shark tore through Amity’s waters, while Freddy Krueger slashed teenagers in the dreamscape, and while Jack Torrance chased his son through the maze-like halls of the Overlook?”
Dutta went on to explain that It Lives Inside is a product of his dual identity. “On one hand, it is a love letter to the community and culture that raised me while on the other, it is a visceral experience that is designed to instill the same raw terror in its viewers that my favorite horror films instilled in me,” he said.
It Lives Inside is produced by Raymond Mansfield and Sean McKittrick of QC Entertainment (Get Out, Us, BlacKkKlansman). It stars Megan Suri as Samidha, Neeru Bajwa as Poorna, Mohana Krishnan as Tamira, Vik Sahay as Inesh, Gage Marsh as Russ, Beatrice Kitsos as Kittie, and Betty Gabriel as Joyce.
Alas, there’s no news yet on when It Lives Inside will make its way to your eyeballs, though the trailer promises that the movie is “coming soon.” In the meantime, here’s the film’s poster, which is suitably scary:
