An archaeologist and his students go looking for Indian artifacts at a burial mound in the Florida Everglades. Unfortunately for them, this mound belongs to Tartu, a long-dead medicine man who has the power to shape-shift into various animals from beyond the grave.Inventive and quite entertaining film with convincing animal attacks and an appealingly unique setting in the weedy depths of the Everglades. There's also some unintentional humor to be had, such as one of the idiotic students dancing with a wooden branch as if it were a cane. Naturally, he looks like a total moron in the process. The film sports a solid ending involving quicksand, and a scene of Tartu rising out of his tomb makes for a particularly striking image.Worth a look, though it's far from great.

being released by Something Weird Video already labels this one as "bad" but unfortunately for the viewer, it doesn't fall under the category "so bad it's good". This one is so bad it's bloody awful! Loooooong passages of people trekking through bush and swamp, a soundtrack featuring chanting Indians that loops over and over and over and brutal acting make this one a snoozer BUT, it's in my collection and staying there. Long live SWV!! How is that I need to make this 10 lines when others have only posted 2? oh well, I will copy and paste.... being released by Something Weird Video already labels this one as "bad" but unfortunately for the viewer, it doesn't fall under the category "so bad it's good". This one is so bad it's bloody awful! Loooooong passages of people trekking through bush and swamp, a soundtrack featuring chanting Indians that loops over and over and over and brutal acting make this one a snoozer BUT, it's in my collection and staying there. Long live SWV!! How is that I need to make this 10 lines when others have only posted 2? oh well, I will copy and paste....

Funny about Creature Feature movies, how they stick in your mind no matter how bad they might be.At one point in this flick, one of the scientists says, "The natives are restless."That made the movie for me!

In the Florida swamps there is an Indian burial ground that is protected by Tartu,a 100 year old dead"witch doctor".He will leave his tomb in the form of an animal of nature to kill defilers of the grounds.(Okay, being part Indian I can tell you that the term "witch doctor"didn't apply to us. Medicine Man thank you).You just know that some white men are going to defile the grounds with an archeological dig.The point man and a professor, his wife and 4 cannon fodders, I mean students, dismiss an Indian's warning about the curse of Tartu.So they go deep into the swamp to the grounds.There the obnoxious students make out, dance to bad rock and swim in the swamp. Yeah, that is always a smart move.Ol' Tartu gets mighty upset with the gang and starts to bump them off one by one.The creepiest kills are via snake(yuck). Who will survive the creepy ordeal?Well besides the aforementioned witch doctor screw up there are other pitfalls with this movie. First, there are really not many sympathetic people in this movie.You actually hope a few of them die violently because they are stupid/whiny etc.Being a goober is a requirement in these movies but this is pushing it.While the snake kills were scary, a freshwater attack by shark is kind of goofy (although gory for its time).The music is irritating and distracting.On the flip side there are great location shots. The swamp and its denizens are creepy. The wind out of nowhere is pretty creepy too.Tartu as a corpse is great as well.Not a bad movie, just average. Give it a look and give it a 5.