Sunday, October 31, 2010

Voodoo Man (1944)


Directed by William Beaudine
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Legend Films)

George Zucco diverts traffic from the gas station down a lonely dirt road, where John Carradine and his henchmen kidnap lonely young girls from their cars and brings them to the isolated mansion of Bela Lugosi. In the house, Zucco dons a witch doctor costume and chants, Carradine plays bad bongo music and Lugosi hypnotizes the women in an attempt to reincarnate his dead wife who is sitting right beside him. It doesn't work, so they repeat the process again with different girls. Eventually the police catch on and put a stop to it. The movie is also self referential, with producer Sam Katzman playing producer SK, who likes the story so much he decides to make a movie out of it.



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