Paul Andrews Voodoo Moon tells the tale of Cole (Eric Mabius) some sort of guy who has magical powers who is seeking Daniel (Rik Young) who happens to be the devil & made the town where Cole was born murder each other, or something like that. The whole town that is except Cole & his psychic sister Heather (Charisma Carpenter) who are now on a revenge mission to kill Daniel. To aid them in this task Cole psychically summons various people whom he has used his powers to save in some capacity & owe him a favour. Erm, eventually they all meet up & fight & that's about it.This Canadian American co-production was edited, written & directed by Kevin VanHook who also makes a cameo appearance as a 'Cemetery Gardener' & I thought it was pretty damned bad. The script is painfully slow, most of the film seems to take place in a large farmhouse where not much happens. The character's are also pretty poor, while two of the people Cole summons to help him are given stories shown in flashback none of the others are & they feel underdeveloped, inconsequential & pointless. Daniel the devil is given no motivation for anything, he doesn't seem to have any sort of plan & he dies too easily. Then there's the magical powers that some of the character's seem to have, I know Cole has magical Voodoo type abilities but it's very sketchy & why the hell does Frank Taggert (Jeffrey Combs) get his neck broken & then comes back to life? What? It's baffling & a bizarre story arc that seems at odds with the rest of the film. Why do all these events suddenly take place now? There seems to be no significant reason why everything takes place at the point in time that it does, none whatsoever. The action is lightweight & dull, there's barely any violence & gore plus it's a real chore to sit through.Director VanHook does OK although it's all rather forgettable, flat, bland & unexciting. There's no atmosphere or scares & a lot of the CGI effects are pretty bad. Forget about any blood or gore as there isn't any.With a supposed budget of about $2,000,000 one has to wonder where the money went, I'm sorry but this is a very bland forgettable film that doesn't distinguish itself in any area. The acting is of a suitably low standard & it's a shame to see a fine actor like Jeffrey Combs in crap low budget horror films like this & All Souls Day (2005).Voodoo Moon is rubbish, I'm sure no one sets out to make a bad film & I'm positive no one here did but lets call a spade a spade shall wee, it's crap. Definitely not recommended.

Samantha-Kimmel I have only seen the first 45 minutes. It's horrid. The acting is stilted. That actor from "Reincarnator" (whatever) is an energy sucker. He huffs and puffs and looks as if he might inflate and explode. That's not acting. That's behaving. Of course he's always been a total ham. CC is herself, sweet, pleasant and Cordelia. The film is shot on what looks like 16 mm school grade stock. The camera work looks like a drunk monkey stole the tripod and ran around with it while the actors just kept speaking. The scene with the priest and the cop is some of the hokiest, idiotically juvenile dialogue and infestation of hideous special effects "artistry" (please: the cop raising up? You could plainly see where the wires were jerking up his pants, and the priest fires two bullets at the guys's chest, and a third squib exploded accidentally!) CC deserves to have actual roles, not washed out copies of Cordelia Chase.

Xex-Arachnid The Summary title of this feature is a worthy suggestion because not many direct to video's aren't worth the rent.The story has to do with two siblings (brother and sister) who survived a gruesome attack in their small southern town by the denizens turning in out one another. Local authorities claimed it was something in the water or something along those lines that authored this horrible incident but the devil was behind it all as in all the horrible things that happen in this world. The brother goes off learning about various religions to hone his gift to do battle with the horned one who goes by the name Daniel, saving people in his travels so they in turn can help him to do the final battle while his sister grows up to be a very famous and talented artist in New Orleans.The movie itself doesn't focus on the beginnings but rather start off with the brother doing practice runs on satanic incarnations in Haiti under the guidance of his voudoun priest. The dude's advancing until one day, the voudoun priest cast the bones to foretell of horrible events in the states and of course while running to his protégé's shack, he already knows and begins to be off on his quest. His first stop in the states is to reappear in his sister's life, to go along with him to meet his posse of would be disciples? in a hotel, hosted by yours truly, Dee Wallace (of Howling fame) not to far from their old town, which is completely submerged in irrigated water (the reality of that without moving the old town for college kids to go skinny dipping is very questionable.)Now without going too much into spoiler-ville, I will say that this cast has recognizable, barely seen but greatly needed actors like John Amos, Dee Wallace (as mentioned before), the dude who plays the doctor from Yuzna's Re-Annimator series (I forget his name at the moment) and the other guy who plays a local redneck/zombie-ghoul undercover henchman which I'm sure you've seen in plenty of films such as "Way of the Gun."The only complaints I have is that the film didn't go too much into all of the character's backgrounds to explain how and why they came to be the good guys best friend to do battle the devil. For instance, I personally wanted to know what the hell happened to John Amos's character before he get's saved, and I thought Dee was taken out too quickly but I guess it's a rule of thumb to eliminate the weakest characters first. But that aside, it has great fight scenes, gory within needed limits, and the CGI FX was good enough for levitating fight scenes.My favorite part is when one of the girl's (the good guys secret love babe) goes into her past with her being a speed junkie in an occult based biker gang and how the gang performed a ritual where the devil showed up in the barn. I won't go further into the town limits of spoiler-ville but, I thought that was executed nicely.So yes, I say get the movie and warm up your nachos and popcorn because it's good DVD fodder.

anijade This movie had a lot going for it but with so many plot holes it was very easy to get lost. I mean for all their powers they let the enemy walk right into the house? That just doesn't make any sense to me. There were other plot holes and only two of the back stories were even talked about.I still don't get why the one friend who was dead kept walking around and they weren't trying to kill him. Still the cast was pretty good but had some weak points. With the right budget and consistent acting this could have been a good TV movie. It was a very original tale but with a poor script and some bad acting it lost something in the translation.