This film has been on my whishlist for a while, but it being a horror it was not too high. The Golden Globes made it rise enough to watch it.
The film starts wonderfully with 1920’ies American black culture. Some blacks are still working on cotton plantations, while others have made their (criminal) ways in the big cities. Segregation is massive. KKK still rules.
Two brothers who have become rich in Chicago return to the area where they grew up with the idea to start a “juke”; a black music bar. They know the gifted blues musician Sammie who has got the gift to play away the veil that divides the ‘real’ and the ‘spirit’ worlds.
While dancing to (modernised for extra effect) blues and other black music, the “juke” is attacked and the film turns into a horror.
The first part is the most interesting. The horror part is alright.
