Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Martin Sheen | ... | Cal Jamison | |
Helen Shaver | ... | Jessica Halliday | |
Harley Cross | ... | Chris Jamison | |
Robert Loggia | ... | Lt. Sean McTaggert | |
Elizabeth Wilson | ... | Kate Maslow | |
Harris Yulin | ... | Robert Calder | |
Lee Richardson | ... | Dennis Maslow | |
Richard Masur | ... | Marty Wertheimer | |
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Carla Pinza | ... | Carmen Ruiz |
Jimmy Smits | ... | Tom Lopez | |
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Raúl Dávila | ... | Oscar Sezine |
Malick Bowens | ... | Palo | |
Janet-Laine Green | ... | Lisa Jamison | |
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Larry Ramos | ... | Diner Counterman |
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Philip Corey | ... | Calder's Assistant |
After the death of his wife, police psychiatrist Cal Jamison moves to New York. There he has to help in the investigation of the murder of two youths, who seem to have been immolated during a cult ritual. Jamison believes it's been Voodoo and, ignoring the warnings of his housekeeper, enters the scenery and soon gets under their influence. They try to get him to sacrifice his own son. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) loses his wife in an accidental electrocution. He moves with his son Chris to NYC as a psychiatrist for the police department. Jessica Halliday (Helen Shaver) is their landlady. His lawyer Marty Wertheimer (Richard Masur) wants to sue the coffeemaker company. Lt. McTaggert (Robert Loggia) investigates a child murder with disturbed undercover cop Tom Lopez (Jimmy Smits) at the scene. Lopez is convinced that some unknown group will kill him and tries to shoot himself. Cal is called in to investigate the voodoo murder. Palo (Malick Bowens) is the ever present voodoo evil. Cal's housekeeper tries to protect the family with her good voodoo.
The use of religion is going to anger some people and color some reviews. I guess almost any movie can cause offense if taken that way. It starts off as a crime thriller. It seems to go slowly but methodically. Then it turns more towards horror and it's quite effective. There are some good voodoo horrors. The two hours running time is a little long but it's got some good creepy scares.