Charlie Boy is the sixth episode of the 'Hammer House of Horror' TV series. It's about a man who unwittingly sets off a chain of fatal accidents among his friends and family after he comes into possession of an African voodoo doll. This series pleasingly often gives off the impression that most of its thirteen instalments were conceived by going through a horror check list. To that end there is the witch episode, the haunted house episode, the werewolf episode, etc. This is the one that revolves around a voodoo doll.
It's constructed in a similar way to the Omen films in that it is made up of a series of inventively gruesome set-pieces. To this end, it's a little bloodier than most of the other episodes in the series. Although the most memorable encounter was a strange encounter with a maniac driver which was more strange than violent. In all honesty though, despite a very solid central idea, this episode on the whole could have been better handled. The dynamics between the characters wasn't maybe as good as they needed to be so the violent set-pieces don't have the impact that they should have. Nevertheless, this one is still okay and has a nicely macabre ending which was typical of the series as a whole.
It's constructed in a similar way to the Omen films in that it is made up of a series of inventively gruesome set-pieces. To this end, it's a little bloodier than most of the other episodes in the series. Although the most memorable encounter was a strange encounter with a maniac driver which was more strange than violent. In all honesty though, despite a very solid central idea, this episode on the whole could have been better handled. The dynamics between the characters wasn't maybe as good as they needed to be so the violent set-pieces don't have the impact that they should have. Nevertheless, this one is still okay and has a nicely macabre ending which was typical of the series as a whole.