Achoura

With me having the opportunity to sit down and watch the 2018 Moroccan horror movie "Achoura" here in 2022, needless to say that I did so. Of course I did, especially because the movie's cover was actually interesting, and this was, after all, a horror movie that I hadn't already seen.

I had never heard about this 2018 horror movie from writers Jawad Lahlou, Talal Selhami and David Villemin, so I wasn't sure what I was in for here, nor had I seen a trailer or anything. I just picked up the movie, as my attention was caught by the cover. And I gave it a chance.

And I guess that "Achoura" is Moroccan for "boring". I am just kidding here, about the translation, of course. Boy, oh boy, talk about a swing and a miss of a movie from director Talal Selhami. The movie never got off to a flying start, and it was so difficult getting into the groove of the movie or the atmosphere of the movie. Maybe it was because the movie had zero appeal, characters with the appeal of cardboard, dialogue as rigid as wood, or simply because the only thing scary about "Achoura" was how utterly boring it was.

The storyline told in "Achoura" was boring and pointless. So it never caught on with me. And after 32 minutes of sheer and utter boredom, then I was good and ready to call it quits on this movie. Yeah, it was exactly that boring.

I wasn't familiar with a single performer on the cast list, and that is usually something I enjoy when I sit down to watch movies. But for some reason, then not so much with "Achoura". Again, it was because everything was so utterly boring and pointless, from the characters and dialogue to the very events that made up the storyline.

If you enjoy horror movies, do yourself a favor and stay well clear of "Achoura".

My rating of director Talal Selhami's 2018 horror movie "Achoura" lands on a very generous two out of ten stars. It is the special effects alone that prevents the rating of scraping a mere single star.