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The Djinn.
Synopsis:
A mute boy becomes trapped in his apartment with a sinister monster after making a wish to fulfill his heart’s greatest desire.
Directed by David Charbonier and Justin Powell (The duo behind
The Boy Behind the Door), the film follows a mute twelve-year-old, Dylan Jacobs, who discovers a mysterious book of spells inside his new apartment. Grieving the loss of his mother, and feeling isolated from everyone except for his father, Dylan performs a ritual that promises to deliver his heart’s desire: to have a voice.
The Djinn Review: Be Careful What You Wish For The Djinn Review: Be Careful What You Wish For
David Charbonier and Justin Powell s tense shoestring thriller sets a mute boy against the malevolent spirit he s conjured.
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Running time: 81 MIN.
Woe betide the grade-school-age lad who finds himself in a movie by writing-directing duo David Charbonier and Justin Powell: He may survive their plotlines, but it won’t be pretty. Their official first feature, “The Boy Behind the Door” (which will debut on streaming platform Shudder July 29) found two such kids fighting for their lives after being abducted by a stranger. In the new, more supernaturally tilted “The Djinn,” they’ve crafted another effective suspense exercise from the same basic premise, trapping a juvenile protagonist in a home with a malevolent nemesis.
Last Thursday – International Human Rights Day 2020, and a day after International Anti-Corruption Day – the government of United States President Donald Trump announced travel and other sanctions against six present and past Jamaican policemen who were part of the controversial Reneto Adams-led Crime Management Unit (CMU). According to The Gleaner of December 11, 2020, the CMU was criticised as a “trigger-happy police squad that committed multiple extrajudicial killings”, and the State Department revealed that the six were targeted by Washington for their involvement in gross violations in human rights in Jamaica”, citing the extrajudicial killings of four people – two men and two women – on May 7, 2003 at Kraal in Clarendon.