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2 Minute Movie Reviews: The Spell (2020)
The movie is pretty incredible in how it attempts to turn conventions on its head. Marquis T. Woods ( Omari Hardwick) is a high-priced lawyer who gets a call that his estranged father has died. He flies his plane with his family to this little town landing in the small-town gas station to fill up the rest of the way before he reaches his family home. But due to a storm he never makes it there, crashing somewhere near where he got the gas from. Which is one of the most unbelievable parts of this. Was the storm ten minutes after he got into the air, did he fly wildly off course? What happened? Because you can fly a long way in an hour or two.
He wakes up in a bed and is confronted by Eloise, a local Hoodoo/Root Woman ( Loretta Devine) who isn’t very forthcoming about his family’s whereabouts or even his whereabouts. She and her family want to keep him locked up until the Blood Moon. Where they are going to use him and his family as sacrifices. While this is a bit intolerant towards people who actually truly believe these things. They would never act the way Eloise and her family do. But I guess the same could be said about Christian cults in movies as well. It's just the lack of knowledge that tells the viewer that the Christian cult is not the norm whereas I’m the one telling you this isn’t the norm…
