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Dachra(دشرة)

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Tunisia · 2019
1h 53m
Director Abdelhamid Bouchnak
Starring 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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60

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.

60

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.

60

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.

70

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.

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