Ashley Rickards is best known for playing the endlessly awkward Jenna on, well, “Awkward,” but there’s nothing particularly gauche about her new movie “At the Devil’s Door” — because it’s absolutely terrifying.
In the film, Rickards plays a girl (her name is not revealed immediately, and we wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise) who becomes possessed by an evil, malevolent spirit who wears her innocent body like a meat suit. It’s terrifying — and also features great performances by Naya Rivera and Catalina Sandino Moreno — but it’s also a relatively meditative film about home and family, which is what attracted Rickards to the project in the first place.
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