The Reel Review
A teenage girl and her clairvoyant mother find themselves in grave danger after the girl attempts to help another teenager who is being tortured by an entity that has attached itself to her and is feeding on her. Ellie O’Brien and Ashley Greene star in this supernatural mother/daughter horror/thriller.
It Feeds starts off strong, with a riveting first half hour and a cool twist that lays some promising groundwork to be a stylish, well-done film. The monster special effects are creepy and O’Brien is engaging as the teenage daughter who takes matters into her own hands after her mother, still traumatized by the death of the also clairvoyant family patriarch, refuses to get involved. Shawn Ashmore (The Rookie, Iceman in the X-Men films) plays the tortured girl’s distraught father.
Sadly, It Feeds completely falls apart in the second half, as if writer/director Chad Archibald (I’ll Take Your Dead, Ejecta) didn’t know how to end his story, so he just throws everything at it, in the hope that something will stick. (It doesn’t.) The result is a dull, disjointed, unscary film that frustratingly wastes its early potential.
REEL FACTS
• It Feeds is a reunion for Ashley Greene and Shawn Ashmore, who starred as a married couple who discover their dream home has a troubled history, in the 2021 horror/thriller Aftermath.
• Glasgow, Scotland native Ellie O’Brien began her acting career as a child after her family moved to Canada. She is best known for her role of Grace in the 2023 Netflix series My Life with the Walter Boys.
• It Feeds was filmed in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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