Directed by David Charbonier, Justin Powell
A mute boy is trapped in his apartment with a sinister monster when he makes a wish to fulfill his heart’s greatest desire.
Ritual Maldito, Le Djinn, 魔灵, A dzsinn, Ritual maldito, הג'יני, Djinn: Cuidado com o Que Deseja, 더 진, Заклинание Джинна, 魔靈, Джинът "Господарят на желанията", Dżin, Džinas, Quỷ Dữ
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Russia16+ 
MexicoB-15 USAR 
UK15 
Ireland15 
Germany16 
France16 
Brazil14 Germany16 Brazil France Germany Ireland Mexico Netherlands Russia UK USA 
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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A young mute boy offers his blood to a candle’s flame and makes a wish after learning about djinn.
Makes good use of visual cues and language and the beats go from Stranger Things to scary in a genuine way for the entire runtime.
There is something about the immediacy of this storytelling that is intriguing and pushes the format and genre forward like Hush (2016).
"Your wish will come true, but beware..." - The Narrator.
- 2021 Ranked: boxd.it/aL2Ys
As a parent it never occurred to me to teach my children not to summon demons.... apparently I should.
This is a claustrophobic and tension filled film with some effective jump scares and a spooky vibe. The Djinn really makes the most of a small budget, generating a movie I'll likely revisit every few yeas. Major props to youngling Ezra Dewey for carrying 95% of the film on his own. I love the quick pacing and the effective use of space. Newish directors David Charbonier and Justin Powell do a lot of great framing of shots and fun camera movement, effectively getting everything out of a…
Strike one came in the first 30 seconds when they tell us it is summertime and the kid is wearing full pajamas to bed. Any believability in the story went right out the window after that! 😆
I appreciate that this movie probably got made because it is a single location story that would be very cheap to produce. But the front cover of the DVD shows a monster hand and I put it in because I was in the mood for a monster movie.
The Djinn is, for the most part, NOT a monster movie.
The monster is a shape-shifter, so for the majority of the runtime they are taking a human form. Not what I signed up for…
Home Alone with Wishmaster 😁
Certainly not flawless (e.g. the story felt a bit stretched even with its around 80min runtime) but it's overall an interesting and suspenseful supernatural horror, especially the sound design and photography create an great eerie atmosphere, and I also thought the kid actor was doing a pretty good job.
I put it on my Little Horror Gems List.
A perfect horror movie just ruined by its ending. Man, that would've been beyond perfect if they could've just stopped there.😢
English Version below ...
The Djinn (2021)
The Djinn – Sei vorsichtig, was du dir wünscht
Das Geschenk, das du suchst, könnte deine Seele kosten.
Michael Jacobs: Was geschehen ist, kann nicht ungeschehen gemacht werden
„The Djinn“ ist ein US-amerikanischer übernatürlicher Horrorfilm aus dem Jahr 2021. Regie und Drehbuch stammen von David Charbonier und Justin Powell. Die Hauptrollen spielen Ezra Dewey, Rob Brownstein, Tevy Poe und John Erickson.
Der Halbwaise Dylan Jacobs, ein stummer Junge, zieht mit seinem Vater in ein neues Haus. Dort findet er ein Buch mit einer Anleitung, wie man einen Dschinn herbeiruft und ihn dazu bringt, einen Wunsch zu erfüllen. Dylan ruft den Dschinn herbei und wünscht sich, dass er sprechen kann. Doch stattdessen trachtet der…
Perfectly fine little horror flick but just kinda the same as so many others we have seen before. It’s really driving hard the build up of tension, the boy is mute so for a large portion of the film there’s no dialogue at all and the tension does build up well, but also it’s basically just a storytelling gimmick to make up for the lack of originality overall. It felt quite repetitive, at a short runtime of only 81 minutes it seemed to just be the same thing over and over, kid running from room to room to room to room, it got tiresome after a little while. It has some positives, I thought the soundtrack was cool, the young…
Jointly written and directed by David Charbonier and Justin Powell, The Djinn certainly has its moments of being creepy and atmospheric. The duo uses minimal dialogue and an uncomfortable usage of close-ups to peddle their horror tale set in 1989. The point in history it's entrenched in endows it with an enchanting vibe that is nostalgic and disturbing as it observes young mute boy Dylan Jacobs (Ezra Dewey).
It begins shortly after Dylan and his radio host father, Michael Jacobs (Rob Brownstein), move into a new apartment with the recent death of the family's matriarch still raw for both of them, and Dylan misses her terribly. Before long, Dylan uncovers an unusual dusty book called The Book of Shadows in…
The Djinn slid into my queue while I was hunting for more half-star turds, and the decent notices it had almost tricked me into thinking I might’ve stumbled onto something a little better. But whatever algorithm is guiding my current descent into cinematic hell clearly knows my taste too well, because this thing turned out to be mind-numbingly dull. Maybe I’m being harsh, but that’s exactly how it felt, just pure, unadulterated dullness, the kind that makes you question why you’re still sitting there. I’m honestly baffled that it doesn’t have more damning reactions, because for me, it was the definition of a nothing burger.
Not all that bad but I feel like I'm not the target audience, that it's more kids horror, trying to make kids scary movies, scary again. And not a bad effort if that's the case. Enough kindertrauma in there but the Stranger Things score kinda took me out of it. Not that I mind that music it just made it feel like it wanted to replicate the experience of Stranger Things vs being its own scary movie for kids. Anywho, there's worse you can do than this.
Lets be honest if I found a book like that I'd have had the candle lit before reading the T&C's.
Please remember and read the whole book before deciding to make a wish with a Djinn.
I felt right sorry for the lad, the Djinn grants salty wishes.
