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There are some strange things going on in and around a hostel in London (I guess it's London). The hostel is home to many foreign students, a good portion of those Jamaican, & there have been some nasty "bad luck" curses found delivered to the hostel manager.There's also some kind of turf war or something going on between rival bar owners, and a young man (Danny) who keeps getting in trouble wandering the streets at night because he goes to visit his girlfriend, who lives in a bad part of town. (like, the part of town with the voodoo curses isn't bad?). Oh yeah, and the guys from Jamaica are a jolly bunch (when they're not caught up in voodoo activities) & sing little songs in response to what they're served at the hostel's dining hall, like "The Cottage Fry Calypso". Amazing, but not necessarily in a good way.Things take a turn for the worse when the hostel manager is found murdered, and more strange things happen, and there's an apparent attempt to frame Danny for the killing, even though it took one of the women that works at the hostel to point the evidence out to the police that would absolve Danny from blame.And then, there's a creepy handyman at the hostel, Amizan, who is furtive, strange,lives in a shack he built in the basement, and may just have a little something to do with what's going on there.This isn't a bad film, it's just rather hard to describe, for me, anyway...it's pretty much a thriller with supernatural (voodoo) overtones, and it's fairly well done, just nothing particularly memorable about it. There is a rather fun scene though, with a Ska band playing at a dance at the hostel, that's rather enjoyable. Some of the film's a bit racist though, although this WAS the 60's, so I guess that was to be expected...a bar called "Spady's"....? Yeah...So, not a bad little thriller, I guess, but nothing to race out & rent immediately though. 6 out of 10.
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