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Superman has kryptonite. I
have three words that reduce me to a quivering
mass: "Starring Corey Feldman."
Eeyah! I gets the shivahs just a talkin'
'bout it!
Surprisingly, Feldman's latest
straight-to-video resume entry fares far
better than putrid dreck like DREAM A LITTLE
DREAM, TOO (what a clever title!) and NATIONAL
LAMPOON'S SCUBA SCHOOL. Maybe leaving Corey
Haim back in the crackhouse has its benefits.
Sporting
an awful Ramones dye-job and groovy Danzig
Jr. sideburns, Feldman plays Andy Chadway
-- a baby-faced "writer" who unexpectedly
shows up at his girlfriend's college. She
seems upset at first -- though this plotline
is largely unexplored and almost instantly
dropped -- and only shows affection/interest
when Andy pledges the "weird"
fraternity on campus.
Could it be that they're not
a fraternity at all, but a voodoo cult with
a wicked grip on the whole town? Well, that's
the story fed Andy by Jack Nance (recently-departed
star of ERASERHEAD), father of a cult victim.
Hell, I'm a sucker for this paranoia schtick,
and Feldman will forever be "The Jarvis
Kid" in my book -- thanks to his performance
in FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 4: THE FINAL CHAPTER.
Toss in a remark that Lazenby is his favorite
Bond and the Feldster's got my support (even
if he does have "CHUMP" written
on his forehead in permanent marker).
Pity poor Sarah Douglas, though.
Stunning as a leather-clad villainess in
SUPERMAN II, she obviously knows she's slummin'
in this cable fodder. All while Terence
Stamp plays the art houses and Christopher
Reeve gets oodles of work and invited to
the Oscars! She's probably wishin' she
was thrown from that horse...at least the
quality of the jobs would improve!
Strangely watchable (maybe
I was under a spell!), VOODOO also
benefits from Joel Edwards' turn as Casion
March, head of Gamma Sigma Voodoo. His Ken-as-a-voodoo-doll
scene is a beer-flick howler.