So, here's a new game.
I want you to take a look at the poster above and imagine what this film is going to be about and who is its star...
To give you a starter, I would have thought it is a gory horror with lots of blood.
Maybe, there is a possessed young woman who is somehow influencing the bird population to poke out the eyes of the local residents as they sleep.
It must be really horrible because the word 'evil' is in the title.
Obviously, it's going to have a decent Hollywood budget because it stars Bradley Cooper and he's an a-lister.
Well, it had me fooled, didn't it?
This is the movie industry at its most cynical.
Georgina Lightning's film was originally released in 2008 as Older Than America - a ghost story which surrounds the persecution of native Americans.
In it, a young woman thinks she is seeing things but is certainly not possessed by the devil, there is no gore whatsoever and there are no birds which I can remember and I've only just finished watching it.
It is being shown by the Apollo chain in the UK this week just because it is in Bradley Cooper's unknown back catalogue.
The point of the movie is to tell the story of native Americans who, until 1975, were sent away to boarding schools in the US and Canada and forbidden to use their own language and practise their customs.
While, at these schools many of the children were abused, physically or mentally or even murdered.
This film surrounds such a former school and a corrupt white mayor's attempt to build on it. When he tries, the ghosts of its past intervene.
Most of the cast are native Americans. Cooper's is a comparative bit part - he plays a geologist who is investigating an earthquake at the site of the school.
I'm afraid Older Than America or American Evil has a good heart but comes up short in terms of drama.
I would have preferred to have watched a documentary about what is obviously an outrageous chapter in recent American history than what is essentially a B movie - however it is dressed up.
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: one small scene
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 2/10 (points have been deducted because of the cynical repurposing).
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