Ooga Booga (2013)

Full Moon Features just can't do enough killer doll movies. I don't get it and, needless to say, I've never been a big fan of Charles Band and his hard-on for psycho puppets. The only reason I checked out "Ooga Booga" - there's three, actually - it features Stacy Keach (who rules), Karen Black in one of her final roles (poor woman...) and legendary internet satirist/author, Maddox. So, was it bad? Yeah, but in all honesty, it wasn't as downright unwatchable as I expected...

A young, soon-to-be black doctor is cornered by some crooked cops in a convenience store after having witnessed a deadly armed robbery. The senior cop decides the kid is guilty and executes him - thus, his soul is transferred, via electrical current, into an archetypal, disparate African-modeled doll (complete with the bone in the nose and spear...) he was given. He promptly reconnects with his girlfriend and, with her help, they set out to take down the dirty pigs and the drug manufacturing degenerates working for them.

Obviously, "Ooga Booga" is a typcial, stupid Full Moon flick that shamelessly rips off another black killer doll flick, "Ragdoll" (which just so happens to be another Full Moon joint...), and the Zuni fetish doll segment from "Trilogy of Terror", which explains Karen Black's otherwise needless appearance. Still, Keach is awesome (albeit, washed up...) and I couldn't help but chuckle somewhat at the doll's retarded sounding 'battle cry'. This movie is really something you have to be in the right mood for if you intend on getting through it, but I will say, it's not the worst Full Moon cheese-fest I've seen.