This film is a relentless onslaught on the senses; and not in a good way. The aim of the director is to somehow scare the viewer by throwing every horror film trope on him; but the effect is disgusting instead of being scary or creepy.
Overuse of dream-within-dream sequence, overuse of people approaching possessed individuals and being attacked by them, overuse of Djinn-possessed characters screaming at others - this movie is heavy on jump-scares and very low on actually telling the story. The director seems to have lost the page on which the script was written and he tried to fill in 80% of the film by showing zombies tearing flesh off people, doing horrible things in dreams and badly animated CGI sequences.
In one sequence, we are incredibly treated to a dream-within-a dream, within-another-dream, within-yet-another-dream. So you have the wife killing her husband and then waking up to realize that she was dreaming. Then she is attacked by Djinns, but even this is a dream and she wakes up and her husband cannot recognize her and is attacked by her sister. Then he wakes up and finds that it is a dream. Then the possessed sister runs off and attacks the couple and both wake up to again find that they have been dreaming the same things. Phew!
If you have seen other films in this series, you will already know the inevitable plot twist that will come in the ending. The movie could have cut out all the endless sequences of possessions, dreams and zombie attacks and focused on the story in a shorter, tightly edited version; and that would have made this a much better product.
Overuse of dream-within-dream sequence, overuse of people approaching possessed individuals and being attacked by them, overuse of Djinn-possessed characters screaming at others - this movie is heavy on jump-scares and very low on actually telling the story. The director seems to have lost the page on which the script was written and he tried to fill in 80% of the film by showing zombies tearing flesh off people, doing horrible things in dreams and badly animated CGI sequences.
In one sequence, we are incredibly treated to a dream-within-a dream, within-another-dream, within-yet-another-dream. So you have the wife killing her husband and then waking up to realize that she was dreaming. Then she is attacked by Djinns, but even this is a dream and she wakes up and her husband cannot recognize her and is attacked by her sister. Then he wakes up and finds that it is a dream. Then the possessed sister runs off and attacks the couple and both wake up to again find that they have been dreaming the same things. Phew!
If you have seen other films in this series, you will already know the inevitable plot twist that will come in the ending. The movie could have cut out all the endless sequences of possessions, dreams and zombie attacks and focused on the story in a shorter, tightly edited version; and that would have made this a much better product.