I like the cast and Parisian setting, and it’s not often that you get to see a French language horror flick, so there are attractive elements in ‘Kandisha.’ Ultimately, however, it’s thin on scares because the boogeyman (boogeywoman) isn’t interesting or defined enough to pull us in.

Bintou (Suzy Bemba), Amélie (Mathilde Lamusse) and Morjana (Samarcande Saadi) are schoolmates who spend their time on a building’s rooftop, chilling, and, breaking out the cans of spray paint for a bit of tagging in the rundown areas and abandoned buildings of their hood after dark.

After a disturbing beating by an ex-boyfriend, Amélie summons Kandisha, a Morrocan ghostly figure who specializes in deadly justice for bad guys. I am skipping past the rather slow portion of the film that explains the legend of Kandisha and how the teens come to learn about her.

But the effect is that people who deserve it are going to meet their fate. One hopes for a ‘Final Destination’ impact on the baddies, but there are no such visual delights/scares.

The film would be better suited to a half hour episode of an anthology type series, at feature length, however, we’d rather see a movie about these three running into frightening turns while out tagging.

Kandisha is streaming on Shudder | In French with English subtitles | 1 out of 4 Stars | Reviewd by Kyle Osborne