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Time Dead is a British horror film. As credits roll,
1979 and Morocco are identified as the time and place for
mysterious events involving a Ouija board. The film begins
with a group of mixed twentysomething youth, who are hanging
out together in a London apartment. Soon, they go to a disco
and get bored until one suggests a Ouija session. During the
session a spirit identifies itself as a Djinn, an Arabian
fire spirit, which says "All dead." One by one,
members of the gang die with severe burn marks, providing
some suspicion that a Djinn has been summoned and now is compulsively
murdering those who summoned him. Meanwhile, one member of
the gang visits his father in prison, where he was sent after
committing heinous crimes of passion in Morocco during 1979.
Despite efforts of writer-director Marcus Adams to obscure
the clues, the ending is not very surprising. The horror element
consists primarily of sonic booms, which are more laughable
than frightening, and the story ultimately has no point. MH
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