a random group of young adult who be some combination of roommate or friend take time out from their busy party schedule to play with an improvised ouija board and when they accidentally call forth a djinn who tell them that they will all die . long time dead be quite a mess and make all the more frustrating by occasional flash of competence . it couldn not have help that that a veritable army of writer seven credit in all work on the story and script and include director marcus adam . after a brief prologue set in the late 1970s in morocco which be far more promising than most of the film proper and we begin meet our bloat cast of hero . there be eight of them and maybe all living in the same building or apartment and except for lucy ( marsha thomason ) and who appear to be live on a boat near the building . if i sound unsure and it because adam be not able to clearly establish the character and their relationship to one another and or the relationship of one location to another . it doesn not help that a few of the five male look alike and and they all dress alike . neither do it help that a the film progress and various character arbitrarily appear and disappear for random length of time . that fact be indicative of the pacing problem that plague the film on many level . it not often very clear why any character be do whatever they happen to be do at a give moment . most of the plot seem like an excuse to put character in very stereotypical horror or thriller scenario and where they slowly walk around an environment frighten and become startle in various way until finally some unseen thing kill them . these scene be often competent and and occasionally theyre good and but in the context of the film and they have little dramatic impact . much of long time dead play more like a sample reel of scare scene while it have little coherency a a story . a big problem be that the chief villain be never clearly show and explain or give any rule to follow . for most of the film and the villain be invisible . invisible villain be usually a problem and and often indicate deficiency in budget and or or imagination . oddly and by the end and there be a concrete villain and the film have devolve into a fairly stock thriller and where we have to guess whom the possessed cast member be . although the story have promise and and the end be somewhat of an improvement and even though it never rise above the cliché and long time dead be too burden with severe flaw in direction and cinematography ( the film be frequently far too dark ) and performance to merit a recommendation . i end up grant a 4 ( equivalent to a high f letter grade ) because of the adequacy of some of the scare and death scene and the good idea in the backstory and and the slightly more engaging climax . the film would have be much well if the prologue and the subsequent event with becker and the one character father who end up in a mental institution have be the focus and but ala and it be not to be . let hope adam fare better the next time around .