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Film Review - It Lives Inside

Film Review - It Lives Inside

Bishal Dutta's Hindi folklore horror promises to be an arresting debut but fails to deliver

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Oct 26, 2023
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For about twenty minutes, writer-director Bishal Dutta’s It Lives Inside threatens to be a singular supernatural horror debut as brilliant as Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook (2014) or Babak Anvari’s Under the Shadow (2016). Ominous white-on-black text fades to red. A genuinely nightmarish opening scene offers a glimpse into a hellish corridor a…

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