The Power (1984)
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In this stock, low-budget occult horror film, a tiny 2-inch-high Aztecan idol is stolen from a professor and ends up in the experimental hands of three high-school students who use it in some creative attempts to get in touch with the spirit world. Things start to go wrong when a cemetery worker dies during one of these spirit sessions, and everything goes wrong after the Aztecan god possesses the body of a young man who steals the idol for his own purposes. Special effects create the appropriate flying objects and body bulges where needed, and makeup is grotesque enough by anyone's standards, but these pluses cannot erase the lack of interesting characters or situations or the uninspired acting. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Susan Stokey, Warren Lincoln, (more)
- Director(s):
- Virgil Vogel, Stephen W. Carpenter, (more)
Synopsis of The Power
In this stock, low-budget occult horror film, a tiny 2-inch-high Aztecan idol is stolen from a professor and ends up in the experimental hands of three high-school students who use it in some creative attempts to get in touch with the spirit world. Things start to go wrong when a cemetery worker dies during one of these spirit sessions, and everything goes wrong after the Aztecan god possesses the body of a young man who steals the idol for his own purposes. Special effects create the appropriate flying objects and body bulges where needed, and makeup is grotesque enough by anyone's standards, but these pluses cannot erase the lack of interesting characters or situations or the uninspired acting. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Power
- Susan Stokey - Sandy
- Lisa Erickson - Julie
- Ben Gilbert - Matt
- Chris Morrill - Ron Prince
- Joe Don Baker
- Gabe Cohen - Marty
- Red Buttons
- Brian Keith
- Joseph Scott - Doctor
- Jeffrey Obrow
- Warren Lincoln - Jerry
- Chad Christian - Tommy
- J. Dinan Myrtetus - Francis Lott
- Rod Mays - Lee McKennah
- Ralph Bellamy
- Jay Fisher - Raphael
- Howard Da Silva
- Barbara Murray - Tommy's Mother
- Karen Black
- Director(s):
- Barry Shear, Stephen W. Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow
- Writer(s):
- Martyn Burke, Stephen W. Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow
- Producer(s):
- Stacey Giachino, Jeffrey Obrow, Kenneth Utt
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