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On her return flight from the USA, where she has studied, Fatma
(Youssra) meets charming Jalal (Adel Imam), to whom she feels very drawn
to ... but there's something mysterious about him, like the way he always
pops up out of nowhere and seems to disappear into thin air. Still,
nothing to worry about, she thinks at first, until he one day pops up in
her bedroom. Furthermore, he seems to insist on marrying her. Soon, Fatma
comes to the conclusion he is not of this world, literally ... Meanwhile, Fatma has
started a new job as doctor at a clinic, and she soon becomes very
friendly with colleague Osama (Ezzat El Alaili). Eventually, she tells him
about her mysterious acquaintance, even tells him that she thinks he might
be a jinn (demon) - but he thinks that's just gobbledegook and looks for a
rational explanation. Fatma's family is more sympathetic, and they try
various forms of exorcism, but to no avail. Eventually, driven by
jealousy, Jalal shows up at Osama's place to teach him a lesson, using
every jinn-trick in the book - but this plan backfires, because it only
convinces Osama that Jalal is a jinn after all, and he calls in a
heavy-duty exorcist to do his work on Fatma and free her of the curse -
which ends with Fatma being traumatized after being shown Jalal's corpse. Fatma
is brought to her clinic as a patient, but she runs away with the
intention to kill herself, but now it's Jalal, who's really in love with
her even if that puts him at odds with all jinndom, who saves her and
returns her to the clinic. And when he later has to face Osama, he lets
him finish the incantation that will banish him from earth forever without
putting up any resistance ... Egypt was never big on horror films,
and keeping that in mind, Human & Jinn is a surprisingly
atmospheric film. Sure, everything looks a bit crude and much of the
gothic scenery and quite a few camera setups seem to have jumped right out
of a Hammer
production, but when it comes to horror, the film actually works.
Unfortunately, that doesn't go for the movie as a whole, as much of its
running time is wasted with an extensive set-up for its rather feeble
story that resembles a cheesy soap opera more than anything else and that
seriously affects the film's rhythm, so much so that the whole thing turns
into quite a bore and (at a running time of 2+ hours) could easily have
been cut in half for better effect. Too bad, because the movie really had
its moments ...
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