Canadian-made Supernatural Horror It Feeds recently took home some pretty heavy prizes at Panic Fest 2025, including Best Actress and Best Creature. Written and directed by Chad Archibald It Feeds is an ambitious indie project punching above its weight class with a killer monster and great script that brings a mother and daughter face to face with more than one kind of evil. Simply put: It Feeds is a really strong handmade movie (fewer and fewer every year) with great characters (hard to find even in the major studios these days) and a clear love for the genre (the #1 pre-requisite for a rock-solid horror movie).

Not unlike the demon monster of Insidious or Lights Out‘s Diana, the big bad of It Feeds is classic supernatural evil. It feeds on the pain and suffering of the people it attaches itself too, it jumps out from the shadows when you least expect,...