LONG TIME DEAD

Starring: Joe Absolom, Tom Bell, Lara Belmont, Alec Newman, Lukas Haas, Marsha Thomason and Melanie Gutteridge
Writer/Director: Marcus Adams
Running time: 94 mins
Certificate: 15

Out to buy on DVD September 23rd

Under the influence of drugs and drink, a group of bored students need something to liven up the party. When Lucy (Thomason) suggests that they try a Ouija board, the group reluctantly agree and find a disused part of the building. After constructing a makeshift board, Lucy warns them that if they make contact it should be the spirit that decides when it is over not them, so whatever they do, none of them should take their finger off the glass at the centre of the board. The séance begins, each of them places a finger on the glass and the glass starts to move. Moving towards the letters the glass starts to spell out the word "Djinn" and then repeating "All will die", with that Liam (Newman) breaks the connection and leaves the board, keeping the spirit they have called trapped in this world.

A very British take on the teen horror movie brings a breath of much needed fresh air into a very over used genre. After a glut of Screams, I Knows and Scary Movies, this British attempt gets back to the basics of dark rooms, quick frights and not knowing who the killer is until the final act.

The young cast are very watchable, with ex-Eastenders star Joe Absolom as Rob and Alec Newman as Liam catching the eye. The direction and writing is very slick, from first time helmer Marcus Adams, with most of the dramatic sequences taking part in dark an dingy settings, all adding to the atmosphere. Yes it is abit basic and the killings are over far too quickly but it does have an extremely good ending which Hollywood would have never dreamed of doing.

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