A witch gets toasted at the stake and, predictably, she promises she’ll be back for revenge. A hundred years later a family (papa, pregnant mama, twin brothers, daughter Gabby and cute niece Paulina) sets up in a rundown vacation home, which they now own thanks to a distant aunt dying without anyone to leave it to. This is, of course, in the same area where the evil woman came to a flaming hot end. The young daughter finds a creepy-ass doll in a dried-out well and the damn thing is serving as a vessel for the malevolent spirit. Luckily, Paulina’s boyfriend studies the occult and even more fortunate, her boyfriend Julio is played by Pedro Fernández and his powerful head of hair. He’s recently traded a radio for a protective medallion and you better believe that’ll come in mighty handy when the supernatural shit hits the spooky fan. Gabby gets a case of the evil influences and almost causes her mother to miscarry when she is slow to get dinner going… real bitch move, Gabby. This gets the folks out of the way and stuck at the hospital. While Julio and Paulina watch the kids, minimally creepy creepiness starts up. Dolls are massacred, walls bleed, there’s a PG make out session, the main special effect is the ugly doll moving its eyes and the most impressive set piece is whatever the hell graces Julio’s head. Shockingly tame for the year and country of origin, it’s still off enough to be more enjoyable than boring. It doesn’t matter, we’d be graced with a superior “sequel” soon enough.
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