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Professor Luis (Jorge Mondragón) tells a story to his friends of how
he and three of his colleagues saw a real-life voodoo ritual during their
recent trip to Haiti, something white men are usually not allowed to see.
Not only that though, they also stole a voodoo idol. Of course, a voodoo
priest (Quintín Bulnes) has cursed them, but the professor thinks little
of the curse ... but a few hours later, he turns up dead. Everyone thinks
it was a heart failure, only Karina (Elvira Quintana), a voodoo expert, is
not so sure. When one of the professor's colleagues has a lethal accident,
she is sure that it's a voodoo curse, and when the other two are killed,
she even manages to convince the authorities. Thing is, the stories about
their deaths show a few discrepancies, like they were killed by, of all
things, dolls ... Of course, the doll story is true, the vengeful voodoo
priest has a stable of dolls in his dungeon, and he uses the lifeforce of
those he kills to bring the dolls to life - and he even gives the dolls
the features of the deceased. Karina knows the threat of these voodoo
dolls is only all too real, and she knows the voodoo priest will strike
again, to kill those related to the professor and his colleagues, so she
hires a privatte eye, Roberto, and his team for protection ... but they
pretty much fuck up when Roberto is attacked and almost killed by a doll,
and the dolls in general have no troubles slipping by Roberto's men. Karina
tracks down the voodoo priest, but when she breaks into his house, she is
caught and put under his spell. He lets her go though, hoping she would
lure all of her friends to him ... and he's right, too, and has no
problems to hypnotize Karina's entire entourage. However, there are two
things he hasn't thought of: his dolls and the zombie he keeps in his
dungeon are all afraid of fire, and Karina's friends just happen to have
brought torches, and there is one symbol that cancels out all voodoo - the
crucifix ... and it just so happens that Karina has brought one. And then
there's one voodoo doll which doesn't want to do its master's bidding no
more ... Ultimately, the baddie and all his creatures go up in
flames while our heroes are all saved.
The depiction of voodoo as such in this film is more than questionable
and m ight not be the result of any research at all. but that alone
doesn't make Curse of the Doll People a bad movie, now does it? In
fact though, the film is nothing special, it's simplistic and a tad silly
in story, and campy in directorial approach. However, the walking dolls
(actually midgets I presume) in dead man's masks are quite creepy to say
the least ...
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