A graduate student preparing his thesis on mythology leads his friends on a research expedition to an old plantation estate on the outskirts of the Big Easy. The site is reputed to mysteriously cause madness and death to all who enter it.
Practical Effects
Gnarly creature effects that age like expired milk — charmingly gross.
Production
Actual Louisiana location carries the whole atmospheric burden.

Director
James Merendino
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director James Merendino made cult hit SLC Punk! four years earlier — this was his chaotic horror pivot nobody asked for.
Part of the early-2000s wave of direct-to-DVD horror desperate to ride The Blair Witch Project's coattails into obscurity.