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Joe Absolom, Lara Belmont, Melanie Gutteridge, Lukas Haas, James Hillier ... see more see more... , Alec Newman , Mel Raido , Michael Feast , Cyril Nri , Nicholas Chagrin , Tameka Empson , Peter Gevisser , Derek Lea , Joel Pitts , Pete Valente , Marsha Thomason , Tom Bell

For his debut feature film, writer/director Marcus Adams helmed this independent occult horror flick set in the U.K. Long Time Dead tells the story of a group of college students who find themselves p... read more read more...laying with a homemade Ouija board late one night. Not taking the game seriously, they unwittingly conjure up a demon that promises to kill them all one by one. Starring Lukas Haas, Joe Absolom, and Lara Belmont, Long Time Dead screened in 2002 at Germany's Munchen Fantasy Filmfest and The Netherlands' Fantastic Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 31 min.

Directed by: Marcus Adams

Release Date: October 28, 2003

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  • Deano78
    March 31, 2007
    Deano78
    Poor attempt at a slasher film. However I have seen worse.
  • StaisilD
    June 17, 2008
    StaisilD
    At a party a group of bored London students decide to hold a seance around an ouija board. They conjure something up but then one of the group freaks out, breaking the connection. Immediately after members of the group start being killed by something that leaves burn marks on the... read moreir body. Lucy believes that it is a djinn, a demonic being born of flame. It was summoned by the seance and has been allowed to roam free in the world because the connection was broken and will do so until its kills everyone who was present at the seance. She also believes that it is possessing one of the group. Meanwhile Liam makes the discovery that his father, locked away as a criminally insane murderer, conducted a similar seance that unleashed a djinn when he was a child. This modest English-made horror film became a small international hit. It is really a variant on the modern 1990s teen horror film that began with Scream (1996). Although it is actually a much more welcome take on the modern teen horror film than its American counterparts. It is refreshingly free of moralizing for one ? people take drugs but are not regarded as having giant targets painted on them as a result, the last survivor isn?t the chaste heroine. It takes place in ordinary rundown student flats and there is not single scene where anybody refers to how what is happening resembles another horror film.

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Staci Layne Wilson
December 5, 2004
Staci Layne Wilson, Horror.com

The suspense level is held taut and the bloody payoffs are quite good... Unfortunately, the plot can't sustain itself and boredom sets in Full Review

Harry Guerin
March 26, 2003
Harry Guerin, RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

Whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards, someone should dispense the same advice to film directors. Full Review

Urban Cinefile Critics
August 30, 2002
Urban Cinefile Critics, Urban Cinefile

As his circle of friends keeps getting smaller one of the characters in Long Time Dead says 'I'm telling you, this is f***ed'. Maybe he was reading the minds of the audience. Full Review

Stefan Birgir Stefansson
August 1, 2002
Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is

Instead of making his own style, director Marcus Adams just copies from various sources -- good sources, bad mixture Full Review

Pablo Villaca
July 1, 2002
Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena

A incompetência de Marcus Adams como roteirista só é superada por sua péssima direção. Full Review

Andrew Howe
April 17, 2002
Andrew Howe, eFilmCritic.com

Long Time Dead? Not nearly long enough. Full Review

Ian Waldron-Mantgani
January 31, 2002
Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK Critic

I approached the usher and said that if she had to sit through it again, she should ask for a raise.

December 30, 2006
Empire Magazine

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Garth Franklin
July 23, 2002
Garth Franklin, Dark Horizons

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Jamie Russell
January 31, 2002
Jamie Russell, BBC

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