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IT FEEDS (2025)
3 stars
Signature Entertainment. Digital Platforms. 12th May
Cynthia Winstone (Ashley Greene) is, to the outside world, a therapist – but more than that, for certain clients, she goes the extra mile, as she is also a clairvoyant and uses this skill to help patients. She is assisted by her 17 year old daughter Jordan (Ellie O’Brien), who also has her mum’s gift, but isn’t well practiced in using it to it’s full potential. Her dad also had the ability which lead to tragedy.
Cynthia has just finished a session with Larry (Dov Tiefenbach) when there is a knock at the door — a young girl, 14 year old Riley Harris (Shayelin Harris) who is desperate to see Cynthia. Jordan has to give her an assessment before she can speak to her mother and she sees the girl has badly scarred arms. Riley tells her that she sees dark things. A creature. She looks frightened as if it was there in the room as they are speaking.
As Cynthia enters the room she is shocked to see something behind the young girl. Then her dad Randall (Shawn Ashmore) bursts in and pulls his daughter out of the house.
Cynthia tells her daughter that there is something terrible, an entity of some sort, attached to the girl and that there is nothing they can do. Jordan wants her to help but she refuses as it is dangerous and nobody would believe them anyway.
Of course Jordan goes against her mother’s wishes and starts to investigate Riley and her father. She eventually sneaks into their house and ultimately ends up tied to a chair in a secret basement room. Following a deadly incident the ‘creature’ jumps to Jordan. Can Cynthia save her?
An effectively made jump scare horror, which, whilst it riffs on other films, is an efficiently made terror. It’s never going to win awards in the originality stakes but what it does offer it does slickly. Typical of modern chillers it has a ‘noisy’ soundtrack to bolster the jumps.
Writer director Chad Archibald has previous with films like THE HERETICS (2017) and BITE (2015). Ashley Greene, an alumnus of the TWILIGHT movies, is fine in her role and she is well matched by O’Brien. The creepy creature – played by Brooklyn Marshall – is well realised. The prolific Julian Richings (over 270 credits!) turns up in a small part.
Steve Kirkham
