A photographer on an expedition in the jungle runs afoul of a voodoo cult.A photographer on an expedition in the jungle runs afoul of a voodoo cult.A photographer on an expedition in the jungle runs afoul of a voodoo cult.
Dean Fredericks
- Suba
- (as Norman Frederic)
George Chester
- Native
- (uncredited)
Daniel Elam
- Native
- (uncredited)
Wesley Gale
- Native
- (uncredited)
Maxie Thrower
- Native
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaIn 1957, Allied Artists packaged this on a double bill with From Hell It Came (1957). This was on the lower half of the bill.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Chiller Theatre: The Disembodied (1974)
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The worst criminal plot of all time
Deep in the jungle of sub Saharan Africa (I'm guessing here because nobody ever says where this is taking place) a couple of men and their servant who are working on a movie crew carry their injured colleague, mauled by a lion, to a doctor's house. They supposedly came from several days away, so how they even knew a doctor's house was out here in the middle of the jungle I have no idea, but it won't be the first illogical thing that happens in this film. The doctor treats the man - Joe - but is not sure that he can save him, meanwhile the other three men camp near the house.
The doctor's wife is Tonda (Allison Hayes) a voodoo priestess. She has apparently married the doctor for his money and now intends to kill him for that money. She was in the process of doing that when the film started by tightening a noose around a doll made in the doctor's likeness, but she is interrupted. So she comes up with a rather complicated and not so cunning plan to have someone else kill him that involves the visitors. Why go through all of this aggravation? The next time she is alone she could just strangle his doll likeness and it would look like the doctor died in his sleep? I guess that's because then we'd have no plot, even thin and threadbare as it is. Tonda also makes the movie crew's injured friend into a zombie of sorts, to seemingly no purpose whatsoever. Zombie guy Joe just tries to kill his friends and then wanders into the jungle. Complications, many of them ultimately meaningless, ensue.
Except for Allison Hayes, who was queen of the B horror films in the 50s, the cast is completely anonymous. I wouldn't say the rest of the cast are bad actors, they are just completely non-descript ones. As for the supporting cast playing the natives, this has to be a record breaker for being a very early example of a multi-racial cast. Some of the natives are black, some are white in make up to look like - I guess Pacific Islanders? And then there is Tonda who looks completely white but allegedly is the local tribe's voodoo priestess. And then there is all of that very hard slapping going on. Observe their technique carefully - You might need to try it on yourself to stay awake through its running time.
The doctor's wife is Tonda (Allison Hayes) a voodoo priestess. She has apparently married the doctor for his money and now intends to kill him for that money. She was in the process of doing that when the film started by tightening a noose around a doll made in the doctor's likeness, but she is interrupted. So she comes up with a rather complicated and not so cunning plan to have someone else kill him that involves the visitors. Why go through all of this aggravation? The next time she is alone she could just strangle his doll likeness and it would look like the doctor died in his sleep? I guess that's because then we'd have no plot, even thin and threadbare as it is. Tonda also makes the movie crew's injured friend into a zombie of sorts, to seemingly no purpose whatsoever. Zombie guy Joe just tries to kill his friends and then wanders into the jungle. Complications, many of them ultimately meaningless, ensue.
Except for Allison Hayes, who was queen of the B horror films in the 50s, the cast is completely anonymous. I wouldn't say the rest of the cast are bad actors, they are just completely non-descript ones. As for the supporting cast playing the natives, this has to be a record breaker for being a very early example of a multi-racial cast. Some of the natives are black, some are white in make up to look like - I guess Pacific Islanders? And then there is Tonda who looks completely white but allegedly is the local tribe's voodoo priestess. And then there is all of that very hard slapping going on. Observe their technique carefully - You might need to try it on yourself to stay awake through its running time.
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- AlsExGal
- Nov 10, 2023
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- Woodoo - Blutrausch des Dschungels
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- Runtime1 hour 6 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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