Aztec idol "Destacatyl" (that can control the dark side of a human's soul) is brought to America where it proceeds to cause murder and supernatural mayhem with some reporters and high school students caught in the middle.

Generally watchable low-budgeter has a decent beginning (that includes a flagpole impalement) and is well enough directed despite getting much too silly for its own good.

For the most part only a so-so time and it suffers from having weakly drawn characters but there are a couple of "possession" scenes that work okay (the arms from the bed scene, for example). We even get a hand shoved in a garbage disposal, some poor make-up effects and what could be the longest time to kick in an obviously plywood door in movie history.

This was directing team Carpenter and Obrow's follow-up to The Dorm That Dripped Blood and they'd re-team once more for 1986's The Kindred.

Directed By: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow.
Written By: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow.

Starring: Susan Stokey, Warren Lincoln, Lisa Erickson, Chad Christian.