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I Must've Seen A Different Movie (spoilers)


I don't understand the high ratings for this film. The scariest part was when the mother could have gotten lashed for not wearing her hijab outside and the cops talked to her like she was a piece of $h!t. Yes, there was the odd jump-scare which, I believe, is taking the easy way out when making a horror movie, and the missile inside the apartment was freaky. The acting was good and it was somewhat interesting...but it was definitely not scary. The Djinn was a Djoke (see what I did there? Ha! Ha!). I mean wtf was with the bedsheet it was wearing? White with black leaves on it? Huh? It would've been better to have it in an all-black or all-white, even an all-red sheet but not one with a pattern on it. I almost laughed when I saw that. Very disappointed. 4/10

"It's as much fun to scare as to be scared" -- Vincent Price

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It's more atmosphere horror than cheap scare horror. That being said it's one of the best horror films of 2016.

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The scariest part was when the mother could have gotten lashed for not wearing her hijab outside and the cops talked to her like she was a piece of $h!t.


I agree with this. It took me a few seconds to understand why she was being detained, and then....oooohhhh yeah, that sick society

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