If you loved House of the Long Shadows, try Cast a Deadly Spell

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Theyboth carry the 3am cult, playful mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Horror / Mystery territory. If that's the register that drew you to House of the Long Shadows, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Cast a Deadly Spell is

New Orleans 1947. The humid air smells of absinthe and old grimoires. A detective who talks out of both sides of his hat gets hired to find a missing spellbook. Martin Campbell’s noir-lite TV movie where H.P. Lavcraft meets Chandler.

If you loved House of the Long Shadows, try Cast a Deadly Spell

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If you loved House of the Long Shadows, try Cast a Deadly Spell

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