4. MYTHICAL CREATURES: Though they are hard to capture, you must see one in this feature.

Three teenage friends — Amélie (Mathilde Lamusse), Bintou (Suzy Bemba) and Morjana  (Samarcande Saadi) — invoke the spirit of Aïsha Kandisha (Meriem Sarolie), the avenging creature of Moroccan legend, by using blood and a pentagram. This seems like the worst idea, but we wouldn’t have a movie to watch otherwise. Anyway, the Kandisha is a folkloric character, similar to a djinn, who appears as a beautiful woman but has hooves. She lives near water and seduces men, making them crazy and then murdering them.

Amélie has issues with Farid (Brahim Hadrami ), an ex who tries to rape her, so they ask Kandisha to punish him. It gets out of hand when she demands more sacrifices, including the men of the girls’ families, such as Amélie’s younger brother Antoine (Felix Glaux-Delporto).

Kandisha is a woman raped at the hands of Portuguese soldiers, but her rage kept her from the next world. If one calls her name, they can summon her for revenge. Kind of, sort of Candyman. She’s not the seductress of legend, actually. She exists to destroy men. Sadly, this reminds me that for all the horrors in the movies we love, women have it much worse in the real world.

Directors and writers Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury also made Inside.

You can watch this on Tubi.