Voodoo is a dangerous force. A young woman is well aware of this and hires a mysterious voodoo magician to send her siblings to the hunting grounds. She wants to snatch the joint inheritance, but will she get away with it? Meanwhile, a bullied boy uses the secret powers of Voodoo to take revenge on his bullies. What follows is a massacre of unimaginable proportions. To make matters worse, two rival gangs are fighting each other elsewhere with their mysterious karate techniques.
Short discussion between two friends about a strange man they used to know.
The Pierced Heart & The Machete is a vivid, unflinching exploration of two annual Vodou pilgrimages in Haiti. The first is for Èzili Danto, goddess of love, art and passion; worshipers from all over the world descend on the southwestern town of Ville-Bonheur to bathe in the sacred waterfall where Dantò resides. The second pilgrimage is for Dantòs' husband Ogoun, god of war, iron and healing. It takes place at the end of July in the northern town of Plaine du Nord, where practitioners bathe in a mud pool and make flamboyant sacrifices. This beautifully shot film offers disorienting yet illuminating glimpses of the contradictory and complementary aspects of these two lwa, the electrifying rites that honor them, and the intense music that accompanies these ecstatic and bloody ceremonies.
Immersed in the underbelly of Brooklyn, NY, a bargain between two gangsters gets cuckoo when one of the gangsters hires a voodoo worker to overthrow his rival.
Marianne Lehmann, born in Switzerland in 1936, married a Haitian and moved to Port-au-Prince in 1957. Fascinated by voodoo cult objects, she began with buying them to avoid their scattering abroad. Over the years it became the largest collection in the world to be donated to Haiti. The film shows the beauty of these objects, their significance and importance to the world's cultural heritage and highlights the link between voodoo (Haitian vodou), the slave insurgency and the creation of the first black nation.
The slave ships during the XVII and XVIII century transported millions of colored people from Africa to America carried within it the seed of a religious cult that would help the slaves in the Confederacy for their freedom. This is the story of the formation of African roots syncretic cults that worship spirits of two faces: black continent mystical entities hidden behind Catholic imagery.
On the brink of taking it to the next level with her boyfriend, Victoria comes home to find a mysterious box on her kitchen table. In it are the remains of an ancient powerful skull known only as The Eye of Menw. Menw's power is the knowledge of the future for those who are pure-hearted. But when Victoria asks about her future, she unleashes an unholy abomination from hell.
Adventurers get more than they bargained for on a remote island.
Two men trying to illegally smuggle their Aunt and uncle into the country but are mistaken as drug smugglers by a small group of vigilantes. They are taken to an island where they are to be executed and buried with previously murdered drug dealers. The only problem is, the uncle is a voodoo priest and he raises the dead from their graves to get revenge for the killing of the aunt. A 14 foot monster from hell, crazed vigilantes, and 84 zombies, try to keep our heroes from getting off the island.
Filmmaker Herbert Alfonso and musician Glenn de Randamie travel to Ghana to do some research on polyrhythm and the West-African spirituality. However, their trip to The Motherland makes them realize that home is more than the place where they grew up. Years later, they recollect their faded memories and try to find the right words to describe their intense experience. What exactly made them feel at home and lost at the same time? What does being home actually mean for a black individual from Europe while visiting Africa? Only abstractions seem to persevere as this colourful and musically-charged collage serves to show how a life-changing experience can leave us with nothing but fragments of a truth that has yet to be discovered.
Doobie Jones has two strikes against him. The ex-con is faced with the dilemma of a lifetime. After turning his community into a walking dead hoodpocalypse, Doobie has a tough decision to make. He can stand and fight Zombies to the death with his big sister Kenya and friend Tracy or he run like hell.
A young fella tries to win the girl he previously met in a bar by visiting a Voodoo magician.
By uncovering a world thought only to exist in his imagination, Ethan brings the love of his life back from the dead in order to clear her name and expose the truth behind her apparent suicide. However, he did not expect the chaos that would come back with her as well.
A witch resurrects a murdered Vietnam vet and takes revenge on his killers.
The Voodoo Dogs terrorize the hood. Performing weird rituals, slaughtering their victims. A cop returns from the dead, taking horrific revenge. Murder and mayhem in the city. Who will survive this urban madness?
What do UFOs, witchcraft, Mormons, voodoo, Freemasons, satanism, H.P. Lovecraft, and several other curiosities have in common? You guessed it, aliens! Allow 9th degree Crackpot Bill Schnoebelen to take you on his dark journey from the giant creature-ridden wastes of the Wisconsin fields to sacrificial pain alters on the moons of Saturn and beyond. Recorded during the Ancient of Days conference in Roswell, NM in 2005.
Happy Voodoo follows Damien as he attempts to use voodoo dolls to alter the lives of his three best friends.
A sailor, known as the Adventurer, searching for a lost American explorer discovers him being held hostage on a remote island in the South Sea. The man is held captive by the island's natives, who have placed him under a voodoo spell known as "obeah.
A woman buys a doll at a magic shop. Unbeknownst to her, the doll is possessed by an evil spirit, and it proceeds to take her over.
A man claiming to be a spiritual medium is hired by a woman concerned that her party-loving daughter is under the influence of black magic, however, things soon go awry.