Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow directs Suzy Stokey, Warren Lincoln and Lisa Erickson in this horror about a small, clay Aztec doll with darkly mystical properties.

Filmed on a shoestring aside from some OK bladder make-up effect transformation work. Starring a sweaty weasel guy who never did much again, plus a bunch of hotties. This takes ages to settle into its “toxic male corrupted by evil” plot line. Three prologues to start (were these abandoned projects?), a Scooby Doo gang teen subplot… and by the end we still never really find out what the power is? Why do people become obsessed with it? Forget it, Jake… it’s bottom shelf VHS rental fodder.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Initiation (1984)