Voodoo Moon (2006)

With its sprawling, Clive Barker-esque mythology, deliberately dangling plot threads, and multitude of secondary characters, this fright flick seems more like a pilot than a made-for-TV movie. Perhaps the executives at the SciFi network were hoping for a franchise, though little in Voodoo Moon screams out for a repeat visit. Director Kevin VanHook, no stranger to this kind of dreck, as usual manages to raise expectations with a few good ideas and some decent casting. But chiselled hero Eric Mabius can't really pull off the requisite angst, while the usually sharp Charisma Carpenter mostly sleepwalks through her downbeat role as a psychic artist. Jeffrey Combs does have some fun as a slacker zombie, but plenty of other talents, from John Amos to Dee Wallace, seem to have been cast more for name recognition than because the script had anything interesting for them to do. Poorly paced, interminably talky, and outfitted with only the most cursory of set pieces, Voodoo Moon fails even as a fanboys-only time-filler. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide