Sunday, January 15, 2012

Movie review – “Voodoo Man” (1944) **


It sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun: Bela Lugosi, Gorge Zucco and John Carradine in the cast, with Zucco and Carradine playing gas attendants who capture women for Lugosi to perform voodoo experiments on in order to give energy to dead wife. And the voodoo setting at the end brings back happy memories of The Black Cat. But the handling by William Beaudine is very slack and too much of this is dumb: the hero is a screenwriter investigating the story to help him write a movie (you know, like real life), the missing woman should have been the screenwriter's fiancee not her girlfriend, the playing of the non famous support cast bad. A real shame. Worth watching if you like the three leads though.

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