Ritual (2001/I)

User Rating:

4.6/10   

Director:

Avi Nesher

Writers (WGA):

Inez Wallace (story)
Curt Siodmak (1943 screenplay I Walked with a Zombie) ...

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

The truth is everything you fear

Plot:

Dr. Alice Dodgson gets her medical license revoked after the death of one patient. She's facing the...

Plot Keywords:

Voodoo | Jamaica | Doctor | Tales From The Crypt | Based On Comic Book

Cast

Jennifer Grey	...	Dr. Alice Dodgson
Craig Sheffer	...	Paul Claybourne
Daniel Lapaine	...	Wesley Claybourne
Kristen Wilson	...	Caro Lamb
Gabriel Casseus	...	J. B.
Tim Curry	...	Matthew Hope
Dorothy Cunningham	...	Violette
Ron Taylor	...	Superintendant Archibald
Trevor Rhone	...	Julian
Carl Bradshaw	...	Ramon
Randolph Winston Jones	...	Gentleman Jackson
Scott Getlin	...	Scott
Erick Avari	...	Dr. Peter Winsfold
Kathy Owen	...	Dr. Shaba
Nahtasha Budhi	...	Dori (as Nahtasha T. Budhi)

Also Known As:

Revelation (USA) (working title)
Tales from the Crypt Presents: Revelation (USA)
Tales from the Crypt Presents: Voodoo (Philippines: English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and some sexuality.

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Finland:K-15 | USA:R (certificate #38018) | Netherlands:16 | Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Germany:16 | Philippines:PG-13

Company:

RKO Pictures

Trivia:

Ron Taylor's final acting role.

Quotes:

The Crypt Keeper: [in a fake Jamaican accent] Oh, what up my people? Welcome to Jamaica man! This is your old bosom bloody the Cryptkeeper.
Hot Girl: Nice hair.
The Crypt Keeper: Aint they cool? On me they call these "deadlocks".
[Cackles]
The Crypt Keeper: Woah! One of the things I love about Jamaica is the eye popping honeys. Of course, I'd prefer them with a little less meat on their bones, or better yet, just bones
[Cackles. A woman brings him a drink with a shrunken head in it]
The Crypt Keeper: T'anks but that's not what I be meanin when I say I want a little head.
[Cackles]
The Crypt Keeper: Anyway, mon, I just wrapped my new movie here in Jamaica, where they dance, smoke grass and all the nice girls be in the voodoo trance. What a place to work. You've got mangos, papayas,
[Focus in on a woman's breasts]
[...]

Movie Connections:

Spin off from "Tales from the Crypt" (1989)

a nice surprise

Can't remember where I got this movie from, but it suddenly appeared off my DVD shelf, as it had been there for months and I always skipped over playing it. Anyway, moved by the hand of huge laziness, I decided to give it a chance and feed my tray with what I thought was a slice of pure digitalized bore. The result was a nice surprise. Obviously, it is not the flick of the century, but the plot line is consistent enough to keep you in the whole runtime long. Atmosphere is particularly dense and thrilling (3 phone calls during the viewing didn't manage to kick me off it !), highlighted by a really efficient soundtrack. The cast is just right as it should be, and the breathtaking beauty of Caro (Kristen Wilson) will do anything but spoil it. The machette/drums/ceremonial scheme, usually utterly heavy in this kind of films, is always kept on a due balance, which I reckon must be quite a challenge for the editors. I gave it a 6/10 which means, in my opinion, frames this movie as (at least)

recommendable-worth watching.