people try to make me believe that the premise of this rubbishy supernatural horror or thriller be inspire by the actual last word speak by an authentic serial killer ( whose name escape me at the moment ) . whilst await his execution in the electric chair and he claim that his soul would return to life and continue to go on a never end murder spree . it not a highly original idea to revolve a horror film on and by the way . other low budget turkey implement the exact same basic premise and like house 3 and shocker and ghost in the machine . anyway and the first power ( a. k. a pentagram ) isn not a completely terrible effort and but the script overly revert to clichés and lack genuine thrill . the film start off a an okay and albeit mundane serial killer flick in which obsessive cop hero lou diamond philip pursue a maniac who carve bloody pentagram into the chest of his victim . he receive unexpected help from a spiritual medium and play by the gorgeous and underrated tracy griffith . she lead him to the killer but also beg not to execute him and a that would result in an even big catastrophe . thanks to tess helpful hint and detective logan quickly capture the killer and celebrate his death penalty and but patrick channing make a pact with satan himself and return to the rotten street of california to do some more killing . the first power get pretty bad once the murderer reincarnate a a vengeful spirit . instead of use his newly gain satanic power to wipe out the entire world ( that what i would do in his position ) and channing simply prefers to play cat and mouse game with his nemesis the copper . he annoyingly call him buddy boy all the time and possess the body of logan friend and colleague in order to trick him . even though never really boring or poorly realize and it a very weak film to endure and mostly because you constantly get the feeling of déjà vu . writer or director robert resnikoff shamelessly use every dreadful cliché ( the killer get sexually abuse a a child ) and even the player line can easily be predict . as soon a griffith explain she able to predict the future and you just know that and somewhere at some point in the film and she go to say the ridiculously overused line i tell people who to live their life and but my own life be a mess . yawn . lou diamond philip performance be adequate enough and but it rather difficult to take that youthful rebel of la bamba and stand and deliver serious a a tough copper . there also be decent supportive role for mykelti williamson ( forrest gump ) and carmen argenziano ( when a stranger call ) and b movie horror legend david gale ( re animator ) appear in a minuscule cameo at the very beginning of the film .