Word: voodooed
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...looks on the outside, it's packed full of gadgetry: it's part laser pointer and part motion sensor, so it knows where you're aiming it, when and how fast you move it and how far it is from the TV screen. There's a strong whiff of voodoo about it. If you want your character on the screen to swing a sword, you just swing the controller. If you want to aim your gun, you just aim the wand and pull the trigger...
...film begins in a small town deep in the Louisiana bayou, where an old voodoo priestess uses two live snakes to exorcise criminals and other wicked men of the satanic spirits that push them to commit horrific deeds. But when the mambo priestess dies in a car accident, the snakes escape and kill the local mechanic, whose corpse is then possessed by all the malignant souls previously trapped in the vipers. And, of course, only a small group of beer-guzzling, emotionally-troubled high school seniors is there to stop the demonic creature from further spreading evil...
Special effects are used more often than in their previous movies, although not necessarily in more creative ways. The voodoo premise allows the film to “gorify” black magic; however, the scenes are more about splashing blood around than actually getting the audience’s blood pumping...
...Bush Administration as well as state and local officials for their sluggish response to Katrina's devastation-had been waiting for. Finally freed from bureaucratic constraints, and with the looting and armed violence being checked by Military Police, the National Guard troops and other military personnel like the Voodoo Child's Marines could go at their jobs with a war-like intensity. At one point, while the CH-53 was en route from the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., Army officers on the ground radioed that the crew should stop and give them a ride someplace else first. Willard...
...neared New Orleans, the Voodoo Child touched down in a tiny field next to an apartment building whose residents, many of them physically and mentally disabled, were trapped inside by the flood waters. As they filed into the helicopter with the most meager of belongings, the emotional pain of the adults contrasted with the excitement of children like Dawonne Matthews, 11, who was taking his first 'copter ride, joyfully sporting the helmet that crew chief Cpl. Jessica Buckley, 25, had given him to wear. "We've never felt so forgotten in our lives," said Dawonne's mother, Trinise Henry...