Voodoo (1995)
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Voodoo is an Occult
Occult
The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...

-Voodoo Horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 directed by Rene Eram, and written by Brian DiMuccio and Dino Vindeni. Filmed in the United States
United States
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 in 1994, Voodoo was released on VHS
VHS
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 Video rental by Planet Productions in 1995, and has since been re-released in the United States
United States
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 on DVD
DVD
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 format through Simitar Entertainment.

Plot

Unable and unwilling to live apart from his girlfriend, Andy (Corey Feldman
Corey Feldman
Corey Scott Feldman is an American film and television actor. He became known during the 1980s, with roles in the Hollywood films Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, The Goonies, Stand by Me, The Lost Boys, License to Drive, Dream a Little Dream, Gremlins and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...

) has decided to move from the UK to the United States
United States
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, so that he can be near Rebecca (Diane Nadeau) while she studies medicine
Medicine
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 at university
University
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. He meets Cassian Marsh (Joel J. Edwards), who persuades him to approach the Pi Nu fraternity
Fraternity
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 where Marsh is the leader. Following a typical fraternity initiation, Andy is offered a place in the Pi Nu house and readily accepts. He then notices a suspicious looking old man (Jack Nance
Jack Nance
Marvin John Nance , known professionally as Jack Nance and occasionally credited as John Nance, was an American actor of stage and screen, primarily starring in offbeat or avant-garde productions...

) hanging around the campus and the stranger warns him that the brotherhood are hiding a dark secret: Marsh is part of a Voodoo Cult and that remaining at the fraternity could be dangerous. Andy decides he is just a crazy old man; but, as events unfold, it seems that Marsh is just using the Frat house
Frat House
Frat House is a documentary film exploring the darker side of fraternity life. The film was directed by Todd Phillips and Andrew Gurland, and largely filmed at Allentown, Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College; the majority of the film was shot in the house of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, which has...

 as a front in order to practice voodoo along with his zombie
Zombie
Zombie is a term used to denote an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means such as witchcraft. The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli...

 friends.

Cast

  • Corey Feldman
    Corey Feldman
    Corey Scott Feldman is an American film and television actor. He became known during the 1980s, with roles in the Hollywood films Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, The Goonies, Stand by Me, The Lost Boys, License to Drive, Dream a Little Dream, Gremlins and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...

    as Andy
  • Jack Nance
    Jack Nance
    Marvin John Nance , known professionally as Jack Nance and occasionally credited as John Nance, was an American actor of stage and screen, primarily starring in offbeat or avant-garde productions...

    as Lewis
  • Joel J. Edwards as Marsh
  • Diane Nadeau as Rebecca
  • Ron Melendez as Eric
  • Sarah Douglas
    Sarah Douglas
    Sarah Douglas is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for playing the Kryptonian supervillain Ursa in the first two Superman movies , and for her role as Pamela Lynch in the 1980s primetime drama series Falcon Crest .-Early life:Douglas was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, the...

    as Prof. Conner
  • Amy Raasch as Wendy
  • Brian Michael McGuire as Ken
  • Christopher Kriesa as Baird
  • Clark Tufts as Loomis
  • Maury Ginsberg as Deitz
  • Darren Eichhorn as David
  • Brendan Hogan as Stan
  • John Ward as Young Man
  • Gregory Vignolle as Derin
  • Aaron Kuhr as Pi NU guy #1
  • Christian J. Fletcher as Pi NU guy #2
  • Teri Taylor as Girlfriend
  • Gilden Tunador as the Corpse

  • Brian DiMuccio as Voodoo Cultist [uncredited]
  • Brandon Gibson as Frat Guy [uncredited]
  • Dino Vindeni as Voodoo Cultist [uncredited]
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