The first gut reaction I had after hearing several lines of this episode was: "This sounds like another 'The Summer People' (another RMT episode with a bunch of old people scheming up fiendish, supernatural plots against younger people whom they select)."

The last such reaction I had (about the time when the boss comes in to check on what's happened to his friend and the friend's wife) was the thought: "Man, I'd love to have the CIA agents come in and bust these old women and burn that cottage to the ground like I heard they did to the bad guys at the end of the movie 'Clear and present danger' "... :!: (I know I shouldn't harbor the desire for vengeance...it's a little of that "Star Sapphire effect". Some genuine justice for these old female curmudgeons was long overdue, though.)

There've been some other voodoun episodes on the RMT that I can recall...some bad (I think the zombie-based "The walking corpse" could fit in here), some fair to middlin' or even better ("The Doll", "Bound East for Haiti"). I'd say this one was at the "even better" category or above, because I didn't expect the supernatural twists that emerged.

To borrow from another RMT title: "That Hamlet was a good boy"...great choice for a show, guy.