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The Ritual - DVD

SKU: 7734384 | Release Date: 5/2/2006

Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Violence, Nudity

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Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Violence, Nudity
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 2001
Length: 106 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: General Horror
Studio: UNKNOWN
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Synopsis

An unemployed New York doctor with a suspended license and few prospects for the future travels to Jamaica to care for the ailing brother of a wealthy landowner, only to make a horrifying discovery regarding the ailing man in director Avi Nesher's contemporary re-imagining of Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie. Dr. Alice Dodgson (Jennifer Grey) is an open-minded oncologist whose experiments with an unapproved drug have just cost her patient his life and found her license to practice medicine promptly revoked. Subsequently summoned to Jamaica by affluent American Paul Claybourne (Craig Sheffer), Dr. Dodgson is assigned the duty of caring for Claybourne's cancer-stricken brother, Wesley (Daniel Lapaine). Though Dr. Dodgson at first dismisses the local tales of zombies and possession as mere superstition while she cares for the increasingly despondent Wesley, her growing feelings for her patient soon bring her to the realization that Wesley is not suffering from cancer after all, but the powerful curse of a local witch doctor. Now, in order to save the man that she has come to love, Dr. Dodgson must uncover the secret behind the potentially fatal curse while facing off against a vicious voodoo queen with the power to destroy anyone and anything in her path. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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Languages/Sound

Eng

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Subtitle Languages

Spa

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[None specified]

Chapters

Disc #1 -- Tales From the Crypt: Ritual
1. "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
2. Too Dangerous
3. Taking Chances
4. "Welcome to Wonderland"
5. Voodoo Dreams
6. An Impatient Zombie
7. Visiting the Doctor
8. Wesley Comes to Dinner
9. Inside Your Head
10. Reasons to Leave
11. Walking With a Zombie
12. The Latest Victims
13. Seekinf the Bigger Man
14. Discerning the Truth
15. Buried Alive?
16. End Credits

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Director: Avi Nesher
Short Story Author: Inez Wallace
From Screenplay by: Curt Siodmak
Screenwriter: Avi Nesher
From Screenplay by: Ardel Wray

Ritual: AMG Review
Jeremy Wheeler , AMG

Produced shortly after Tales From the Crypt's less-successful entry Bordello of Blood, this would-be sequel sat on the shelf for almost five years, only to make its official premiere on DVD as an afterthought -- which considering it's subpar quality, might have been a good idea after all. While this voodoo tale has the feel of the Crypt series written all over it, Ritual suffers from an overinflated plot and a general disregard for the gruesome fun inherent in these stories. Save for one brilliantly over-the-top melting-man scene, the red stuff is nowhere to be seen in more than two thirds of the flick. While it works well on its own mystery/thriller merits, with Jennifer Grey adding a bit of B-list class to the proceedings, as a whole, the film just does not seem to fit in with the Crypt Keeper's stable of ghastly horrific cinema. Speaking of the pun-filled horror host, he appears in an apparently newly shot intro for the DVD release that finds him bustin' lame Jamaican rhymes poolside while wearing a ridiculous dreadlocked wig -- easily the most memorable part of this forgettable flick, if you don't count Grey's revealing tank tops. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide

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