A clairvoyant therapist confronts her own personal demons while trying to save a young girl who believes a malevolent entity is feeding on her.
Ratings
Curator score: 1.2/10
IMDb: 5.6/10
Letterboxd: 2.62/5
Metacritic: 66
TMDB: 6.7/10
Director
Chad Archibald
Production
Black Fawn Films
Cast
Ashley Greene, Ellie O'Brien, Shawn Ashmore, Juno Rinaldi, Brooklyn Marshall, Mark Taylor, Shayelin Martin, Julian Richings, Dov Tiefenbach, Scott Baker, Eadie Murphy, Christina Beth Hughes, Liise Keeling, Laurie Murdoch, Greg Schneider, Shai Barcia, David Thompson, Jayden Kirton, Brook Jones, Dave Dewar
Where to watch
Hulu
Curator Review
Verdict
It Feeds is a familiar but effective supernatural horror built around a clairvoyant therapist, grief, and a child in danger. The scares and mood land better than the story, but genre fans who like psychic-vision horror and gothic creature work may find enough to enjoy.
Best for
viewers who like atmospheric supernatural horror
fans of psychic or mindscape-based horror
audiences okay with familiar genre beats if the execution is creepy
people looking for a mid-budget, jump-scare-forward fright film
Skip if
you want a highly original horror premise
you are tired of possession and hidden-entity stories
you prefer strong character writing over genre mechanics
you dislike uneven third acts or TV-movie energy
Overview
It Feeds takes a well-worn horror setup and gives it a dependable, occasionally eerie polish. The clairvoyant-therapist angle is the hook, and the film gets mileage out of entering other people’s minds, trauma imagery, and the uneasy bond between a mother and daughter caught in a supernatural crisis.
Worth noting
The movie seems most confident when it leans into atmosphere and visualized psychic space. Several viewers noted that it lands its jump scares and has a few creepy ideas, even if the plot moves through familiar possession and “evil entity” territory. There’s a gothic, dreamlike quality to the best sequences that helps it stand out from standard streaming horror.
Bottom line
Where it loses momentum is in the writing and escalation. The story is often described as predictable or thin, and the final act appears divisive, with some finding it surprisingly inventive and others seeing it as a messy genre mashup. If you’re in the mood for a solid, not-so-subtle supernatural chiller, it’s worth a look; if you want something sharper or more original, this is an easy pass.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Ece (3.5★) · 259 likes
my girl alice can’t catch a day without having visions
Yves Bouwen (4★) · 170 likes
In the introduction director Chad Archibald told the rowdy BIFFF audience they wanted to make a movie that scared the shit out of people. In It Feeds a single mother and her daughter fight a demon taking possession and feeding (duh!) on people. The movie does deliver on the jump scares and is actually creepy. Mission (somewhat) accomplished. While it digs into a lot of known genre tropes, it has some surprises in store. The third act we get a gothic version of Inception. I did not see that one coming. Recommended.
vitor (3★) · 136 likes
"we get it, you're hungry"
começou tão bem, mas o final foi tenebroso
gregs1999 (2★) · 118 likes
I miss watching terrible horror films for the sake of it, I really should start again. Acting was very subpar, and the demon thing looked more like it was from the game Darksiders. Decent effects, boring story, but I did enjoy the mind sequences.
jryn7 (2★) · 102 likes
Lifetime level horror where Ashley Greene stars as a woman with the ability to enter people’s minds and see what they see. Her real problem though is having a daughter who doesn’t listen to anything she says and gets them involved with an evil entity that’s attached itself to Shawn Ashmore’s daughter and feeds on her. It Feeds has a good jump scare…so it reuses it throughout the entire film.
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A stronger, more polished version of the psychic-journey haunted-house setup, with a similar blend of family stakes, astral intrusion, and jump-scare craft.