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573:. Cal begins to inquire about brujería to Carmen, his housekeeper and nanny, who practices a benevolent form of it, leaving protection charms in the apartment for Cal and Chris. The following day, Tom, paranoid and being followed by mysterious men, stabs himself to death in a diner. Later, Cal and his new girlfriend, Jessica, attend a party where a mysterious Caribbean man, Palo, attempts to steal a necklace from Jessica; shortly before, Jessica had left her compact in the bathroom, and unbeknownst to Jessica, Palo rubs the pad with his fingers. When Cal returns home, he finds Carmen performing a ritual on Chris, and angrily throws her out of the house, despite the fact that she assures him she is attempting to protect him. 610:
sacrifice by stabbing Dennis to death, and Marty, who followed them to the warehouse, comes to Cal's aid, shooting various cultists from an upper landing. Calder abducts Chris and the two ascend to the top of the warehouse in a freight elevator. Marty is incapacitated with a blowpipe dart by Palo, but not before he severely burns Palo's face, blinding him. Cal manages to chase Calder into a storage room, stabbing him to death before retrieving Chris. Cal puts Chris down and a blinded Palo attacks Cal, but falls off the scaffolding when Chris coaxes him toward him and is impaled on
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after the boil on her face bursts and baby spiders break free from the wound. While Cal tends to Jessica in the hospital, Kate leaves him a voice message that she has changed her plans and is going to return Chris to him, but the message is cut short. Unaware Kate has called, Cal departs the hospital
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on her face and falls ill. Before departing to reunite with Kate, Dennis, and Chris in the country, Cal receives a frantic phone call from police lieutenant Sean McTaggert. Cal arrives at McTaggert's apartment, finding it in disarray, and McTaggert seated with a gun, rambling in a paranoid manner. He
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Cal flees the house through an upstairs window after finding Chris no longer in his room. In the boathouse, Cal finds Kate's dead body before he is knocked unconscious by Palo. Cal is driven to an abandoned factory, where Chris's ritual murder is to be carried out among the cult. Cal thwarts the
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Some time later, Cal, Jessica and Chris are living happily on a farm in the country, and Jessica is pregnant. Following their barking dog to the barn, Cal investigates the barn loft and finds an altar adorned with religious icons, fresh produce, loaves of bread, and various sacrificed animals.
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is a bizarre, occult thriller about the implications of religious faith. And, though it doesn't expand upon its shock tactics as much as it would like to or make its theological points, the movie's dread atmosphere begins to seep into your head." Author and film critic
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with his friend Marty, who drives him to Kate and Dennis's country house. Upon arriving, Dennis tells Cal that Kate has gone to a 24-hour grocery store. In the living room, Dennis recounts his and Kate's travels to the Sudan when Kate was a
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Chris accompanies his affluent Aunt Kate and Uncle Dennis on a trip to stay at their country home. Meanwhile, Cal and Jessica consult Oscar Sezine, a friend of Tom's, who believes the cult is planning a ritualized murder for the
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shows Cal a photo and secret file he uncovered documenting elite businessman Robert Calder's ritual murder of his own son. Cal leaves with the file at McTaggert's insistence. After he leaves, McTaggert commits suicide.
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as a place where alien cultures merge and the Christian white man has reasons to fear the pagans, who may come for his children. As such, it plays on a fear for the ethnic, racial, and religious
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in a bathroom while snooping around in Calder's office. By the time she retrieves it, it has become a cursed item. While using it, something "gets under her beautiful skin". It manifests as a
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Hearing sounds from below he sees Jessica has come in. She confesses to making the shrine saying "I did it for us. We'll be safe now." Cal stares in shock as the screen fades to black.
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feels familiar on a surface level, its use of Santeria mythology and Schlesinger's deft blend of suspense and graphic shocks provide enough flavor to separate it from the flock."
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of New York City. The cultists turn out to be members of this social class which literally sacrifice their children in exchange for "fame, wealth, and power". Their success and
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gave the film one and a half stars out of 4, denouncing the film as "an awesomely silly, tasteless, and half-witted movie." Dennis Schwartz' from
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religion depicted in the film as "a cult of evil that condones human sacrifice". Neither film approached the subject of the 1980s hysteria over
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awarded the film a grade C+, calling the film "muddled", and criticized the film's cheap scares, writing, and lack of a believable storyline.
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is based not on business acumen, but their practice of Santeria. Muir sees this as a literal interpretation of a familiar phrase,
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set in the 1940s, and so fantastic that it limited its connections to the contemporary world of the 1980s "and its fundamentalist
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After his wife Lisa dies from an accidental electrocution, psychologist Cal Jamison relocates with his young son, Chris, from
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film series (1976-1991). But he also noted that Hollywood seemed to have lost interest in the subject by the 1980s. He cites
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Barna William Donovan notes that there were several Satanic-themed Hollywood films in the 1970s. Citing as examples
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awarded the film 2.5 out of 5 stars, calling it "Gripping", and "genuinely frightening". Brett Gallman from
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in this decade. Donovan concludes that Hollywood distanced itself from the subject matter, probably because
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complained that most films about Caribbean religions tend to involve "guys with blank eyes" and
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would do anything for success, including calling upon dark gods. Muir points similarities to
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holds an approval rating of 35%, based on 20 reviews, and an average rating of 4.8/10.
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was set in that contemporary world. The villains were not, however, worshipers of the
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in an attempt to ensure the safety of Chris, whom he worries may be targeted as a
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A second victim is found eviscerated on a makeshift altar beneath a dock in
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friends of the Jamisons are revealed to be cultists in their own right.
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The film is more typical of its decade in the negative depiction of the
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However, not all reviews of the film were negative. Hal Hinson from
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This article is about the 1987 film. For the Zoë Heller novel, see
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Conspiracy Films: A Tour of Dark Places in the American Conscious
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For Muir, the highlight of the film involves the depiction of a
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about the film's production, and theatrical/home media releases.
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below. Cal carries Chris and they escape from the warehouse.
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was deemed an unfit subject for popcorn entertainment.
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was shown to have influenced the cult established by
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for the solstice. The next morning, Jessica finds a
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