Sure, aliens are creepy, but is anything scarier than uncomfortable encounters with your friends and loved ones? This idea inspired Jacob Lees Johnson to write, alongside Davey Morrison and Martha Duzett, the film “ I See the Demon ,” which he also directed.

“I was thinking about the blind spots that we have in our relationships with friends, with loved ones, with spouses,” he says. “We sometimes think that we know exactly who a person is, especially if we’ve known them for a really long time. But I saw some experiences around me of where that was definitely not the case. And it’s unsettling to think, ‘Oh, I actually didn’t know this person,’ or ‘This person thought they knew me, but they really don’t.'”

Without spoiling the film’s twists and turns, “Demon” is the story of Lucy (Alexis

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