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It Feeds (with spoilers)

So this isn't groundbreaking but def worth watching because it's solid, entertaining and has working internal logic and not crazy plotholes. The demon's appearance is kind of generic but they don't make the mistake of showing it in detail too often, so that's a win. Lots of moral grey areas, especially with the mom and Riley's father. The costume choices, especially in the final showdown, were a bit outlandish and distracting to me. The mother-daughter dynamic felt real and developed. Maybe I was imagining it but I felt like the filmmakers must've grown up with a lot of Nightmare on Elm Street movies because I felt like there were small nods to the series throughout, like when she's standing in the mist in front of a house with boarded-up windows, only 1 number different from Nancy's house, when the mom says to wake her if it looks like she's in trouble, or when they go inside the demon's head similar to in Freddy's Dead. More creepy moments than actual scares, like when the daughter is locked in a coffin with the demon. The concept felt at least more fresh than some demon movies of the past decade and is more complex because its victims theoretically have to become perpetrators to survive.

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