Memories can be fickle and unreliable, leading to catastrophe for the Batiste family and heartbreaking truths. The ten-year-old discovers her father’s serial infidelity, prompting her to dabble with Hoodoo and driving conflict between her and her family. It follows young Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett). Kasi Lemmons’ feature directorial debut uses Southern mysticism and curses to expose insidious family secrets slowly. Liam Gavin’s feature debut gives a refreshing take on black magic and ritual occultism with a slow atmospheric burn that refuses to depict effortless mastery of the dark arts. But Sophia has a hidden agenda that puts their very lives and souls at risk. Sophia Howard rents an isolated house in the countryside and contracts unsavory occultist Joseph Solomon to implement the Abramelin Operation, a grueling 18-month magical ceremony to attain knowledge and conversation with one’s guardian angel to have their wish granted. This week’s horror picks feature characters empowered or shattered by black magic, leaving heartbreak and a body count in their wake.Īs always, here’s where you can stream them this week. Whether it’s witchcraft, Hoodoo, voodoo, or a simple séance that went wrong, all will cause irreparable harm to the careless. Over their heads and their very souls at risk. Characters that encounter or choose to dabble in black magic find themselves on a fast track to horror.

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