An unfortunate title for a nasty voodoo chiller full of improbabilities and implausibilities. A pity, for a lot of it is excitingly made by director John Schlesinger; it's events rather than script that torpedo this one amidships. A good cast does its best to lend credibility to the story of psychotherapist Martin Sheen who has lost his wife in an accident in the home and moves with his small son (engagingly played by Harley Cross) to another city where he finds that boys are being slaughtered in the cause of some obscure and evil sideshoot of a tribal religion. Sheen, Helen Shaver, Robert Loggia and others have undoubtedly registered better elsewhere, even though they give The Believers all that their producer and director could ask. Jimmy Smits makes an early film appearance - well on the other side of the law from his later TV characters in L. A. Law and NYPD Blue.

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