Jogo Sinistro

As of 28 December 2019 movie has subtitles. This is my first ever review after rating 6768 movies.

Just because it is paced slower that other movies is no reason to give it a low rating. I just don't get the the folks that rant and rave the movie is so slow, bad acting, blah blah blah. One reviewer called it a "reasonable" horror film and I totally agree with that assessment. It builds slow and doesn't come crashing down in a gigantic blood soaked finale but along the way it has a few chills, enough to make it enjoyable on a cold blustery winter day!

Sinister Circle (Juego siniestro): Apparently this is a sequel to Cementerio General. A psychologist in Mexico suffers a double whammy, a patient who is seeing demons commits suicide and her mother in Lima, Peru tries to burn down an apartment building building after teenagers die whilst using an Ouija board. We have satanic cults trying to summon up Moloch through human sacrifice, the psychologists son seeing ghosts and somehow the death in Mexico being linked to the events in Peru. it all centres on a cursed Ouija Board and the sinister apartment block. Some good scares, hands emerging from baths and under beds, grabbing people, general aura of threat especially in the building. OK horror but nothing great. Directed by Dorian Fernández-Moris. 6/10. On Netflix.

It isn't very often that you get the chance to see a movie from Peru, so when this particular Peruvian movie popped up on Netflix, I decided to seize the opportunity. However, the movie let me down in most departments. I knew that the budget was very tight, so I was able to look past the fact that the general look and feel of the movie was akin to what's typically found in an episode of a typically Canadian television drama. However, the movie simply doesn't work in its main attempt, to scare or to simply chill. Certainly, the script contains a story cobbled from multiple elements and plot turns you've seen in dozens of other horror movies before, but the direction is utterly unimaginative. The attempts at horror come across in a surprisingly matter-of-fact manner, with apparently no effort to punch them up or give them freshness. And the movie, despite only being about 86 minutes long, plods along extremely slowly scene from scene. What the movie ends up being is a horror movie for those who don't like to be scared, and are possibly at the same time being insomniacs. Chances are that it will be a long time before Netflix gets acquires another movie from Peru.

Watched this movie in Netflix with English subtitles.. It is a good thriller instead of horror..Not as bad as the reviewers here are claiming. Watch it once without expecting anything scary..

I found myself drifting to other things. I'd force myself to come back to it because I HATE starting a movie and not finish but this one... The acting was, ok. Directing, fairly decent. It was the script that was the downfall I think of this movie.

Sure, the almighty Ouija board concept has been done to death but there was some ideas here that could have made it a bit different and more watchable.

I would have given two more stars had the script been better written, and another for acting because with a better script the actors would have better material to work with. That said, I must say that Matías Raygada (Julio), at least in this movie, was not a very impressive child actor and I'm not sure a better script could have saved his performance.