It Lives Inside (2023)

★ 5.7 1h 39m 282 votes IMDb

Desperate to fit in at school, Sam rejects her 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.

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Cast

Megan Suri
Megan Suri as Samidha Age 27 · Downey, California, USA Megan Suri is an American actress known for her roles in the independent film The MisEducation of Bindu and the Netflix teen comedy series Never Have I Ever..
Neeru Bajwa
Neeru Bajwa as Poorna Age 45 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Neeru Bajwa is a Canadian-born Punjabi actress, director and producer. She started her career in 1998 with Dev Anand's Bollywood film Main Solah Baras Ki and then moved on to working in Indian soap op...
Mohana Krishnan
Mohana Krishnan as Tamira Age 24 · Plano, Texas, USA Mohana Krishnan is an American actress born on March 29, 2002, in Plano, Texas. She is best known for her role in the Nickelodeon series I Am Frankie (2017) and the horror film It Lives Inside (2023)....
Betty Gabriel
Betty Gabriel as Joyce Age 45 · Washington, D.C., USA Betty Gabriel is an American stage, film and television actress. She holds a BA in Animal Science from Iowa State University, Ames, and graduated from The Juilliard School in New York City, New York,...
Vik Sahay
Vik Sahay as Inesh Age 54 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Vikram "Vik" Sahay is a Canadian actor best known for playing Lester Patel, a member of the Nerd Herd in the NBC television series Chuck on which he became a series regular from the second season, and...
Gage Marsh
Gage Marsh as Russ British Columbia, Canada Gage Marsh is a Canadian actor who started acting professionally in 2017; since then he has worked with Networks like Netflix, CW, and HBO. Landing roles such as Alex on the popular show You Me Her, t...

Audience Reviews

CinemaSerf 5/10 Nov 02, 2023
Well we've had Mandarin and Spanish integrated into dual-dialogue Hollywood films recently, so I suppose it was only a matter of time before another language featured - and we have it here in the partial use of Hindi. Thereafter, though, this is an entirely unremarkable drama centring around the young "Sam" (Megan Suri) who is trying to balance her life of traditional roots and modern American attitudes. This confusion and uncertainty, coupled with a recently smashed jam jar is allowing a strange and powerfully malevolent critter to come out and thrive on all of this discord - and to kidnap her best mate "Tam" (Mohana Krishnan) - the original owner of the jar! Can "Sam" and her all-American beau "Russ" (Gage Marsh) possibly get to the bottom of it all? As surely as we will all soon be leaving the cinema - and that's really the problem here. There is nothing at all new, nothing scary - the visual effects; darkened streets, flickering lightbulbs - we've all seen it so often before and though the Indian cultural aspect is welcome, it doesn't really add anywhere near enough to this teenage adequately performed finding-herself story that rather bored me. Halloween telly if ever I saw it, I wouldn't bother paying to see it at a cinema, sorry.
patient1 7/10 Oct 20, 2025
It appears that our main character is rather disassociated from her peers and is rather unhappy with her life. We already have what looks like some ancient or possibly forbidden behavior. The strangeness has begun, and it's looking freaking wicked so far.
Horrific events are unfolding, and the danger could be spreading out appears. Ancient folk or mythological entitites are terrifying to come up against, I feel for our cast in this delicious tale. This was an interesting tale from the east told here on the western shore.

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