LONG TIME DEAD

During a rave party, a group of young people, after indulging in alcohol and drugs, decide to end the night with an extra thrill and organize a séance. The experience will surely be exciting but not certainly fun: on the Ouija board, in fact, a macabre message appears, "You will all die". Terrified, the young people suspend the séance, but their lives are now marked: they have awakened the powerful demon Djinn who will haunt them until death. If the seventies-eighties are remembered, by horror fans, as the golden age of B-movies and splatter-movies, but also the years that gave the most masterpieces in the history of horror cinema, the nineties and the beginning of the new millennium will be remembered as the era of teen-horror. The plot is always the same: a group of beautiful and reckless young people (in the film in question less beautiful but more reckless than usual) who are killed one by one by one of them. The only original idea (but to be honest not really, and those who have seen "Spiritika" can confirm it...) of this "Long Time Dead" is in the motive, or rather the cause, that drives the killer: not fun or boredom (see "Scream") nor personal vendettas (see "So What Did You Do?") but a terrible force, an evil demon that takes possession of the body and mind of one of the young people, making him the executioner of his own companions. Directed by the debutant Marcus Adams, "Long Time Dead" is an urban horror, set in London, that unfolds through all the clichés and stereotypes related to the genre. There are many scenes where the tension is exacerbated, where one expects to find a demon in every dark corner and, needless to say, this one appears punctually. Gloomy and sufficiently accurate is the setting: a Victorian house (also in this case a classic of horror), old, poorly maintained, with a malfunctioning electrical system (coincidentally...). The film maintains an acceptable pace throughout and, for once, does not end with the usual happy ending. In short, yet another production without infamy or praise, made specifically for a young audience, and as such certainly not suitable for more demanding and savvy viewers.