Voodoo
Written, Produced, and Directed by Tom Costabile
Starring Samantha Stewart and Ruth Reynolds
2016
Reviewed by A. Renee Hunt
The phrase, “You’re going to hell” has new meaning with this movie. It’s a horrific tale of Dani, a country girl from New Orleans, who’s looking for a break from life. She’s just exited a relationship where her boyfriend was married, and is being harassed by the wife, who claims to have cursed her. Hoping for a lot of fun with a change of scenery, she heads out to California to visit her cousin. Unfortunately for her, her troubles follow.
Voodoo, told through the eyes of a lens, is very a distinctive film. Though past movies of this style were popular for a long while, it’s just tiring today. No one carries a camera the way the characters in these sorts of movies do – so it is more of a voyeuristic pain, instead of entertaining. What surprised me the best part of the entire film: the walk through hell. Now that was original and unique.
I found appreciation for the mental torture but the gratuitous profanity and rape was much for me. Since it was hell, I expected craziness, but every high school and college teen isn’t as vulgar as movies make them. It just gets old fast. As a matter of fact, had the movie spent more time in developing the stalking of Dani, before the Hell-thru, Voodoo could have become haunting. And what was the deal with the beach scene?
The statues, even the creepy, maniacal creatures showed a great amount of talent and showed they spent a nice penny to make the movie, but it wasn’t enough for this reviewer. Voodoo releases February of this year.
