fairly well-directed, some decent scares, gnarly monster design. you can't really be mad at it. punishingly conventional though, despite the gestures at cultural specificity. the prayer repeated in hindi near the end of the film to repel the demon may as well have been "the power of christ compels you" for how familiar its deployment was. the narrative is very disney channel at times, which i wouldn't fault the movie for quite so much if some of the kills and…
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