It Feeds (2025) review – Ashley Greene battles generic demons

Welcome to Knockout Horror. Today we are taking a look at a brand new supernatural horror movie starring Ashley Greene called It Feeds.

A familiar name and another generic horror

This movie comes by way of director, writer, Chad Archibald who also brought us the lacklustre body horror Bite, among other mediocre, or worse, horror movies.

“The entire setup reeks of something designed to sell to non-horror fans and teen viewers.”

The story follows a psychiatrist, Cynthia (Ashley Greene), who has a special ability to see inside people’s heads. This gives her the ability to get to the root of their problems on an almost supernatural level. After a young girl bursts into her office looking for help, it is up to Cynthia and her daughter to get to the bottom of just what it is that is afflicting the girl.

Let’s cut to the chase. As far as mainstream horror goes, It Feeds is about as middle of the road as it is possible to get. The entire setup reeks of something designed to sell to non-horror fans and teen viewers. The quirk with our protagonist is that she can enter people’s mind, basically encountering their inner demons in a physical sense.

The problem with this power is that it actually places Cynthia in danger as the aforementioned demons can harm her. Thus meaning she tries to use the ability sparingly. It is hinted that some bad stuff happened in the past due to this special power but the story doesn’t go into that until a little later on.

The first two thirds of this film are a mix of heavy drama, a crime-based mystery, and a plucky young girl attempting to help a child. It’s very rote but there’s enough their to dig your teeth into. Just don’t expect anything too inventive. This is your vanilla mainstream horror setup with nothing out of the ordinary to speak of.

It’s a competent sleep over horror

When it comes to this type of movie, the target audience is very clear. This means you have to sort of judge it through a different lens. It Feeds isn’t designed to appeal to the serious horror fan. It is designed to be thrown on at a sleepover or to fill in a couple of hours on a Saturday night with some wine and snacks. With this in mind, the movie is fine if not unremarkable.

“I am fairly sure the director had a checklist of stuff to include and his pen ran out of ink from ticking so many boxes.”

Cynthia’s abilities, as mentioned earlier, allow her to climb inside people’s minds. This means there are literally no barriers on what the monsters she encounters can look like. They are in the person’s head, after all. This opens the door for some interesting monster designs that are actually quite impressive.

Still, the bulk of the movie plays out as something of a mystery thriller so the demon thing feels like a bit of an afterthought. Most of the scares come in the traditional Hollywood “jump” variety. With the engine that drives the story being the rather perilous situation Cynthia’s daughter, Jordan (Ellie O’Brien) gets herself into while attempting to unravel the mystery of what is afflicting the young girl.

As far as the story itself goes, it is serviceable but very middle of the road. It is pretty easy to predict much of what will happen but the specifics of Cynthia’s powers allow the movie to go in a few unexpected directions. The end, in particular, is pretty mental considering the events that lead up to it. I’m not going to lie and say that I enjoyed It Feeds but I think others will. It just didn’t offer much that I hadn’t seen before.

A few negatives that need mentioning

I found most of the acting to be absolutely fine. I really like Ashley Greene and Shawn Ashmore and thought Ellie O’Brien did a really nice job. They are battling an absolutely foul script, though. There are constant exposition dumps to keep the viewer on pace with what is happening and barely any of the characters talk like actual humans.

I can’t count the amount of times I heard the phrase “Entity Attached” but, suffice to say, by the ten minute mark of the movie it was cracking my fiancée and me up, every time a character uttered it. Do not base a drinking game around that phrase while watching It Feeds. I really wish directors would outsource their scripts to someone who knows what they are doing.

Writing in horror is a massive problem. If American filmmakers approached horror in the same way international filmmakers did. Stopped treating their audience like dummies, exposing on every little detail in the most remedial way possible, the genre would be far more appreciated and respected.

“I can’t count the amount of times I heard the phrase ‘Entity Attached’… Do not base a drinking game around that phrase while watching It Feeds.”

It Feeds is absolutely packed full of horror tropes and cliches, almost to the point of bursting. I am fairly sure the director had a checklist of stuff to include and his pen ran out of ink from ticking so many boxes.

Whether it is haunted houses, demons, hands reaching out and grabbing people from the abyss, dumb character decisions, familial trauma. It is ruthlessly unoriginal. The movie is way too long, as well. Something this generic should be 80 minutes, max.

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