Any other Moroccan horror movies out there? This is one of the few.
A trio of females, late teens, doing normal teenager stuff- sneaking out of the house at night to go do stuff, smoking cigarettes on the sly, graffiti-ing abandoned buildings, etc. They don’t seem like bad kids or troublemakers necessarily. Just doing regular rebellious teenager stuff. (Although all three of them look to be at least 25 years old. But, they’re just actors in a movie…)
One night, one of them tells the other two the story of the ghost of Aicha Kandisha, a vengeful woman spirit who kills you if you run afoul of her graces. And she’s a feminist, so the idiot men in this flick don’t stand a chance.
Although it seems that the non-idiot men also don’t stand much of a chance, either, as her wrath seems to be indiscriminate. As long as you’re a male, you’re fucked.
Some interesting stuff in this one. Kill scenes are graphic. The witch doctor scene is kinda trippy, but cool. Some cliché, predictable stuff as well. Like when the one guy says ‘ok, it’s over, it’s done, it’s finished,’ and there are still 20 minutes left in the movie, we know it’s not over and done. The one big headscratcher is that I have no idea why she goes after the men who haven’t done anything to her or anybody. So many horror movies are about people getting their comeuppance. This one is that, but also people who don’t deserve it get the same treatment as those who do.
But, it’s a really depressing movie. And I love the bleakness of it. I don’t think I’ve seen a movie this bleak since The Void in 2017. It’s really nice to see a movie go so far into that territory. If you’re into that sorta stuff, definitely go for it.
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