PREVIEW: The Djinn (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Ezra Dewey (The Boy Behind the Door), Rob Brownstein (Velvet Buzzsaw), Tevy Poe (What Love Looks Like), John Erickson (Sexually Frank), Donald Pitts (86 Melrose Avenue), Jilbert Daniel (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Justin Powell (The Boy Behind the Door), director, writer, editor, David Charbonier (The Boy Behind the Door), director, writer; Carter Armstrong (film debut), Ryan Scaringe (Useless Humans) and Meghan Weinstein (Dead Envy), producers; Matthew James (Useless Humans), composer; Julián Estrada (The Last Hour), cinematographer

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1989, a young mute boy named Dylan (Dewey) moves with his father Michael (Brownstein) to a new apartment following a close tragedy. He soon discovers a book that instructs how to summon a being known as a “Djinn”, which can grant a wish to the summoner, but at a personal cost. Over the course of a night, Dylan finds himself hunted by the sinister being after he decides to try summoning it…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Filmmakers David Charbonier and Justin Powell follow up their standout real-world horror The Boy Behind the Door with an equally tense supernatural thriller that confirms them to be powerful new voices in genre storytelling.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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