The Power

Name: The Power
Director: Stephen Carpenter
Genre: Horror
Released: 1983
Duration: 1 h 24 min
Cast: Suzy Stokey, Warren Lincoln, Lisa Erickson, Chad Cowgill

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Horror

1983
Stephen Carpenter
84 mins
18

Summary

A professor attempts to warn his students of a powerful ancient Aztec doll, but succumbs to its grip. Soon, the doll attacks all in its path.

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Review

A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Dave Golder

Microbudget 1980s horror The Power peddles that well-worn genre cliché - the cursed artefact that delivers grisly death to all who possess it. In this case it's an Aztec figurine that looks suspiciously like something you'd pick up at an Mexican airport as a last-minute present. Its latest owner is a high-school student, who quickly realises that it's causing weird stuff to occur. When he tells local reporter Sandy about the doll, she dismisses him as deranged, but her ex-boyfriend becomes obsessed - literally - with discovering the truth. It's amazing a film with so little plot makes so little sense, but The Power manages it. Clunky dialogue, low-rent scares and vapid acting don't help matters. The only people who emerge with any credit are composer Christopher Young (later of Hellraiser fame) who provides a peculiar but effective score, and make-up artist Matthew W Mungle (an Oscar winner for Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1993) for a great bit of prosthetics gore at the film's climax.

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4.5/10