Review of Magic Magic (2013) by Tony P — 12 Mar 2016

Psychological breakdown of a young US tourist in Chile.

The film descends into a mixture of paranoia, scenes of witchcraft and downright breakdown.

I say young the person in question is not a child but a young woman Alicia visiting her cousin Sara in Chile.

Sara has a mixture of oddball freinds including her boyfriend Augustin, his sister Barbara and freind Brink, the most sadistic of the lot.

On a trip to a secluded island cabin, Sara temporarily has to return for a school exam apparently. It leaves Alicia alone in a foreign country amongst strangers who speak their native Spanish language for good measure.

The oddballs delve in drunken games, mild animal cruelty and base jumping through the film. Alicia descends into a deeper state of psychological dedpair as the film unfolds.

Some people wrongly class this film a horror which under my definition of blood and slasher characteristics of the genre it is far from being.

Towards the end we see Alicia being pumped with homemade pills and local witchcraft practices as the nearest conventional hospital is hours away.