After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to infiltrate her and her father's lives.
Costume
Joanna Pacula's power-dressing villain wardrobe
Practical Effects
Grotesque transformation effects pre-CGI
Acting
Pacula's smoldering menace vs. Salenger's terror
Director
Pen Densham
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shawn Levy plays Amy's doomed boyfriend Terry—yes, the future Deadpool director and Stranger Things EP.
The film's voodoo elements were criticized even in 1988 for reducing Haitian spirituality to exotic villainy, with Pacula's Eastern European casting adding another layer of 'mysterious foreign woman' trope.
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