With Infinity Pool, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and the upcoming thriller Sanctuary, NEON continues to be the home for buzzy indie titles that made a splash on the festival circuit. Having been an award winner at SXSW, Bishal Dutta’s horror It Lives Inside was quickly snapped up by NEON who aren’t wasting time putting it on everyone’s radar.
One of the cool things about horror at this moment in time is that diversity has opened up horror to influences from other cultures. It Lives Inside centers on an Indian teen who has rejected his heritage in order to fit in, only to find that a demonic spirit has invaded a friend. The only way to stop it is to reconnect with the Indian culture she had turned away from.
Missing‘s Megan Suri, Neeru Bajwa, Mohana Krishnan, Betty Gabriel, Vik Sahhay, Gage Marsh, Jenaya Ross, and Beatrice Kitsos star. Dutta makes his feature film directing debut and also wrote the screenplay.
It Lives Inside opens in theaters soon, but does not yet have a release date.
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.
