An aspiring movie producer fights with his partner after an unexpected inheritance, and the wished for but unwanted show down comes through a voodoo doll.
To start with a cliché is OK, so long as you twist it into a new shape. So we get the ancient artifact with the impersonal supernatural power to visit death on helpless characters, the best example of which is The Monkey's Paw - but these writers make a mess of it.
Horror rules require suspension of disbelief but they still have to make sense, and instead this randoms on, basing its conceit on an accidental death and carrying through with an unconvincing schedule of gory mishaps.
Also the characters have no real choice so they're flat and make little impression. There is an element of be careful what you wish for, but it's not introduced properly or driven to an inevitable conclusion. There was a chance to twist things round by linking the hero's girlfriend with the African origin of the voodoo doll, but that gets passed by without a thought, and we end with a weak climax.
The actors do OK, everything else is bland.
Overall - sadly, a waste of time.
To start with a cliché is OK, so long as you twist it into a new shape. So we get the ancient artifact with the impersonal supernatural power to visit death on helpless characters, the best example of which is The Monkey's Paw - but these writers make a mess of it.
Horror rules require suspension of disbelief but they still have to make sense, and instead this randoms on, basing its conceit on an accidental death and carrying through with an unconvincing schedule of gory mishaps.
Also the characters have no real choice so they're flat and make little impression. There is an element of be careful what you wish for, but it's not introduced properly or driven to an inevitable conclusion. There was a chance to twist things round by linking the hero's girlfriend with the African origin of the voodoo doll, but that gets passed by without a thought, and we end with a weak climax.
The actors do OK, everything else is bland.
Overall - sadly, a waste of time.