It Lives Inside (PG-13)
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So, there's this Indian-American teenage girl named Sam (short for Samidha) who does her best to fit in with the other kids at school, and so she distances herself from her family's traditions, which displeases her mother, though her father seems more understanding. Anyway, when she was younger she was friends with a girl named Tamira, but they grew apart when they started high school. And more recently, Tamira has been acting very strangely. She carries around a glass jar, and is obviously scared of whatever's inside it. One day she begs Sam for help, saying the jar contains a monster. Then Sam momentarily becomes... I dunno, not nice. (There's also a scene later where she acts this way toward her mother, and both scenes made me think something sinister was influencing her behavior, but the movie doesn't do anything with that potential angle, which seems weird to me.) She calls Tamira a psycho, and smacks the jar to the floor, where it shatters. Tamira is horrified, and Sam comes back to her senses and runs off to get help from a teacher named Joyce, but when the two of them return, Tamira has disappeared. Sam finds a journal she had been carrying and takes it home with her, but doesn't want to talk to anyone about what's going on, which frustrates her parents. Eventually, she does confide in a boy she likes named Russ, who tries to help her investigate whatever was going on with Tamira, but that... does not end well. Later still, she confides in Joyce, who also wants to help her.

And... I guess I don't want to spoil any more details. But I thought it was a reasonably interesting movie, with a genuinely creepy monster from Hindu mythology (even if most of the time it's invisible, which adds to its creepiness). I'm not sure I ever found it terribly scary, exactly, but there were definitely times I felt a lot of tension and concern for various characters who were targeted by the creature. And the subplot of Sam's relationship with her mother was pretty good, in both its ups and downs. And yeah, I can't really think of anything else to say.