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  • 2021
  • RLJ Entertainment
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2021
  • RLJ Entertainment
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary It is summer break and best friends Amélie, Bintou and Morjana hang together with the neighborhood teenagers. At night, they have fun sharing goosebumps stories and urban legends. But when Amélie is assaulted by her ex, she remembers the story of Kandisha, a powerful and vengeful demon. Afraid, upset, she summons her. The next day, her e...

Written By: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury

  • 2021
  • RLJ Entertainment
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2021
  • RLJ Entertainment
  • 1 h 25 m

Kandisha

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Summary It is summer break and best friends Amélie, Bintou and Morjana hang together with the neighborhood teenagers. At night, they have fun sharing goosebumps stories and urban legends. But when Amélie is assaulted by her ex, she remembers the story of Kandisha, a powerful and vengeful demon. Afraid, upset, she summons her. The next day, her e...

Written By: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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75% Mixed
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77
Jul 21, 2021
Despite achieving formidable scares and clever callbacks to the filmmakers’ debut Inside, a sinister specter of clumsy cultural engagement lingers in Kandisha.
By Natalia Keogan FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 21, 2021
The closing stretch – including an exorcism in an imam’s incantation-lined apartment (interior design goals!) – is brutally effective. By this time, Aisha Kandisha is a towering succubus; postcolonial theory stomping in on a pair of terrifying goat’s hooves.
By Phil Hoad FULL REVIEW
58
Jul 22, 2021
The question is whether Kandisha’s intriguing elements are strong enough to cancel out its more uninspired ones. For Bustillo and Maury completists and seasoned fans of monster movies and ’90s horror who are accustomed to cherry-picking cool elements from forgettable films, the answer is yes. For the rest of the viewing public, summoning this demon probably isn’t worth the pain.
By Katie Rife FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 22, 2021
Aside from a moment here and there, we get little commitment from our star trio. What should be wrenching all along the way is mainly momentary grief, guilt or fear. For us to buy in, the leads have to buy in. They don’t.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Esprits Frappeurs, Wy Productions
Release Date Jul 22, 2021
Duration 1 h 25 m
Genres
Tagline Attention aux légendes qui sommeillent. [Beware of sleeping legends.]
Website https://www.unifrance.org/film/48562/kandisha
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