When Alyia swishes a knife from behind a flimsy gold curtain, As the movie goes on it works its magic on you - you buy into the sheer panic, chaos and fear of those involved, never really knowing which way things are going to fall and so the suspense builds slowly but deadly. The acting was exceptional for all characters involved, with only a few cheesy scenes that let this good acting down i.e. to unlikely helpers with a twist to them - loaded pauses and screen flashes of information that leave you feeling chaotic, displaced and more than nervous. Everything you want - from dark rooms with those who deal in dark magic, vulnerable victims. I clicked on this half heartedly but immediately was gripped. The movie could have cut out all the endless sequences of possessions, dreams and zombie attacks and focused on the story in a shorter, tightly edited version and that would have made this a much better product.īeing an avid thriller/chiller/horror fan especially of the supernatural kind its very hard to find a movie that rattles you. Phew! If you have seen other films in this series, you will already know the inevitable plot twist that will come in the ending. Then the possessed sister runs off and attacks the couple and both wake up to again find that they have been dreaming the same things. Then he wakes up and finds that it is a dream. Then she is attacked by Djinns, but even this is a dream and she wakes up and her husband cannot recognize her and is attacked by her sister.
So you have the wife killing her husband and then waking up to realize that she was dreaming.
In one sequence, we are incredibly treated to a dream-within-a dream, within-another-dream, within-yet-another-dream. The director seems to have lost the page on which the script was written and he tried to fill in 80% of the film by showing zombies tearing flesh off people, doing horrible things in dreams and badly animated CGI sequences. Overuse of dream-within-dream sequence, overuse of people approaching possessed individuals and being attacked by them, overuse of Djinn-possessed characters screaming at others - this movie is heavy on jump-scares and very low on actually telling the story. The aim of the director is to somehow scare the viewer by throwing every horror film trope on him but the effect is disgusting instead of being scary or creepy. This film is a relentless onslaught on the senses and not in a good way.
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