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Screen Daily by Sarah Ward
It’s a visually rich and moodily atmospheric film with a keen sense for the unsettling, even if it boils together a mélange of somewhat familiar ingredients.
Dachra (دشرة)
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- Tunisia
- 2019
- · 113m
Director
Abdelhamid Bouchnak
Cast
Hela Ayed,
Yassmine Dimassi,
Aziz Jbali,
Bilel Slatnia
Genre
Horror
Tunisia’s first horror film follows a trio of journalism students who film their investigation into witchcraft in a mysterious village marked by sinister rituals. Things spin out of control, however, as their investigation leads them into a world of madness, macabre witchcraft, ghastly beheadings, and cannibalism.
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Los Angeles Times by Noel Murray
In the terms it sets at the start, Dachra is mostly but not entirely successful. It’s not overtly political (though an argument could be made that it’s partly about how Tunisia has changed since 2011’s civil unrest), and it is pretty gripping.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
The characters are irritating, the look is cheap and the plot is reheated from other movies, but it has to be admitted that Dachra delivers its unsavory thrills.
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Variety by Dennis Harvey
Originality may indeed be scarce in writer-director Abdelhamid Bouchnak’s debut narrative feature. Yet this gory goulash of city slickers, creepy yokels, editorial jolts and cannibalism largely transcends its derivative basic elements, thanks to his astute, richly atmospheric handling.
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