‘The Believers’
After his wife dies in a truly terrifying freak accident, psychiatrist Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen, never better) moves to NYC with his young son Chris to start over with a new job counseling NYPD officers. In the course of his new duties, Cal works with undercover officer Tom Lopez (a hysterical Jimmy Smits) who believes the Santeria (or voodoo) cult he was infiltrating is after him. Cal discovers that Tom’s paranoia is well founded as he and his son become targets of the cult leader bent on sacrificing Chris for spiritual and monetary gain for his followers. Filled with genuine frights and scared-as-shit performances, The Believers is moody horror thriller (directed by John Schlesinger!) that is an underrated classic.