The Djinn - Movie Review - The Austin Chronicle
Where does evil come from? Supernatural horror films often bury themselves in cosmological exposition. For The Djinn, filmmaking duo David Charbonier and Justin Powell cut through any mythology by cutting away the mumbo-jumbo. There is no reason given for why a grimoire, wrapped in old cloth, would be precariously balanced on the shelf in the apartment into which young Dylan (Dewey) and his late night AM soft rock station deejay father, Michael (Brownstein), have just moved. Is it something to do with the last tenant, who died in mysterious circumstances? Or is it simply that the tome and th...