The Djinn is In

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A group of young friends looking for a better buzz decide to try summoning the dead in 2002's Long Time Dead. It didn't set the world on fire but it's a basically enjoyable horror flick.

The group is renting a house where they hang out, get high, and have sex. There's a vibe slightly like Trainspotting. They all head for the club one night where someone gets the bright idea to use a ouija board.

Lucy (Marsha Thomason) is the one who knows about all this stuff. She doesn't live in the house with the others, she has a houseboat in which we see various eastern and middle eastern symbols and icons tacked up on her wall. Yet when the spirit at the ouija board calls itself a "Djinn", she's never heard of the term. So that's a bit silly but it's the only thing that really bothered me about the movie.

The evil djinn starts to pick the kids off, one by one. I was a little disappointed he went for the girls first, I was kind of hoping the one played by Lara Belmont would last to the end. I guess the "final girl" is a tired trope but the alternative is a letdown.