The Djinn

They've gone crazy again at Rotten Tomatoes. A pointlessly overrated low-budget indie ghost film that apparently garners praise, mainly because it's essentially a one-boy-show whose main character is a small, mute, traumatized kid that almost never leaves the screen. I mean, nothing against it, the kid tries, but it doesn't work horror-wise at all, and there's nothing else in it. There's so little action in The Djinn that even at a moderate runtime of less than 80 minutes, it struggles to crawl at all. At times I was telepathically pushing the film to get it the fuck moving a little. Or, if you don't know what to do, throw in a red filter and randomly move the camera around the room for a few minutes. (14/05/2021)

Alone at home with ghosts, or another boring cheap crap that critics overhyped! I really don't know which horror film pissed me off more this year, but Djinn can shake hands with The Vigil and The Night because all three seem equally boring, uninteresting, and pointless to me. The protagonist is a little boy who is mute, asthmatic, has a huge scar on his chest, and oddly enough, he's not autistic or in a wheelchair so that the viewer can empathize with him even more. I was hoping it would be a variation of Wishmaster, but there’s no interesting wish-fulfillment or tasks, you can forget about that straight away. The main character performs a spell from a book and wishes to regain his voice, but that summons a supernatural entity to his house and he must survive an hour with it for the spell to come true. The Djinn can take on the form of different people, so there's either disgusting black CGI smoke, which I hate, or it haunts as an ordinary guy like the father of the ain protagonist! There was even a female presence, but overall it's crap. There is almost no dialogue, not even a single jump scare! Of course, there's no gore, no body count, the plot is pointless, the atmosphere is sterile, and there's no entertainment. Last year's Come Play is really two levels above this, and if you didn't like that one, then don't waste your time with this one at all. Even with a short running time of 80 minutes, it felt like the film just didn't want to end. 3/10. (15/05/2021)