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Voodoo Black Exorcist 1974 is a creepy movie about an eerie mummy who was reborn from death. It deals with a Caribbean native couple, after an unfortunate murder , they're condemned by the tribe to a grisly execution . As the dormant mummy called Gatenebo comes to life to carry out a relentless vengeance. As the mummy is transported to an European museum and to be relived on an ocean luxury cruise liner. Things go wrong when the mummy awakes to commit bloody slaughters by beheading and terrorizing passengers and other folks . Along the way, he falls in love with Sylvia : Eva Leon who bears remarkable resemblance to his old flame : Tanyeka Stadler , as he thinks of being her reincarnation. This dude means business so watch out when you nerves start to shatter!

Thrilling film with plenty of chills, thrills, scary moments, gory scenes and a lot of grisly killings by beheading, slashing and scratching. The typical monster movie of the Fifties is lousily adapted to Seventies time, in which a terrifying mummy gets revived executes terrible murders and wreak havoc, proceeding a criminal spree on an Atlantic Ocean lux cruise liner through the Caribbean isles and eventually disembarking in Puerto Principe. Here prolific screenwriter Santiago Moncada and filmmaker Manuel Caño blending terror with mummy included and monster movie set on a ship, an issue to be treated in subsequent movies as "Death Ship" by Alvin Rakoff, "The Relic" by Peter Hyams and "Deep Rising" by Stephen Sommers, among others. It stars Aldo Sambrell as the scary big bald guy holding a heavy make-up as a prune-faced mummy , he was a notorious secondary who played a large number of characters through a long career, however, as main star performed limited roles. Co-stars the ravishing Eva Leon as the girl whom the monster reminds him his former sweetheart Kenya and a plethora of Spanish familiar support cast, such as : Alfredo Mayo, Antonio Casas, Luis Marin, Fernando Hilbeck, Julio Peña, Fernando Sancho as a stubborn police inspector and several others.

Produced in low budget by J. A. Perez Giner from Profilms, considered to be the Spanish Hammer. It packs a thrilling and frightening musical score by Fernando Garcia Morcillo. As well as tarnished and faded cinematography by Roberto Ochoa, bring really necessary a perfect remastering because of film copy is washed-out. The motion picture was ridiculously directed by Manuel Caño. He was a craftsman who written, produced and directed all kinds of genres. He made a few films, such as : "Siempre en mi recuerdo" , "Sonria por favor" , "What do I care if Miami explodes?", "Perro de Alambre" and two Tarzan movies with Steve Hawkes : "Tarzan and the Rainbow" and "Tarzan's the greatest challenge" . And directed another horror movie in similar style : "The Swamp of the Ravens". Furthermore, he produced "A hatchet for a honeymoon" by Mario Bava and "Kill Buster" by Julio Coll with Tom Tryon. Rating : 4/10. Below average. Only for Spanish terror enthusiasts.

Dull and clumsily cobbled tale more-less rehashes the story of The Mummy, although this time around the Egyptian pharaoh is replaced by a tropical island voodoo doctor(the Caucasian crackers wearing blackface makeup and Foxy Brown afro wigs will have you in hysterics...trust me...you *never* had it so good).

So, anyway...this crusty old mummy is resurrected on-board a luxury liner. The reincarnation of his love from ancient times is among the passengers, and yadda, yadda, yadda. Not surprisingly, characters get killed, girls start screaming, and everything you expect will happen does, indeed, happen.

So..."is VOODOO BLACK EXORCIST any good", you ask?

Oh, Hell-to-the-no.

Recommending this film would be as insane as recommending steel wool as a substitute for chewing gum. If, however, you're the type of person who tunes-in to back-seat cinema with any frequency, then you might possibly find it a tolerable slice of beatdown, old-school Eurotrash.

4/10

Different, incoherent Spanish film about a Caribbean mummy aboard a cruise ship killing people that remind him of those that killed him thousands of years earlier. At least I think that is what the main plot thread was? It is difficult to tell with the poor, hatchet-job editing, the cheap feel the film has, the dull, sophomoric direction, and the acting talent of washed-out understudies. The film opens with the mummy character when he was young and vibrant - we see him with his love, get in a fight over a girl, and then watch his girl beheaded in front of him and then he is "paralyzed" and prepared for mummification. The opening scene really is done so poorly that you really aren't sure of many of the character motivations. Many flashback scenes would be used throughout the film using that ever-so-clever red tinting(Ho...hmmmm). The budget is low in this one: the heads decapitated look like mannequin heads with animal blood caked around the necks. One scene where a dancer(she is the best part of the film in all of her buxom grandeur!)is wrestling with the mummy - we don't know why he wants to kill her - has the two fighting in front of a mirror and then shows the cameraman in the mirror shooting the scene. Many more examples of such amateurism can be found throughout. What did I like? The film is watchable and funny for its ineptitude. The mummy in the sarcophagus actually looks creepy at times. And did I mention that dancer? The end is an even bigger letdown than the film(as if that were even possible?). It is so ridiculous. As for the performers? Nothing too good. The guy playing the self-proclaimed "fat, old" cop waiting to retire is probably the best just for comic relief. The rest sub-par. Except for, did I mention already, the dancer?

Hilariously bad Spanish horror made watchable by director Manuel Cano's kinetic direction. Could have been a guilty pleasure with better editing and a more coherent plot.

Voodoo Black Exorcist (1973)

** (out of 4)

Another really bad Spanish horror film. 3000 years ago a man is executed for sleeping with the wife of a voodoo priest. In present times someone steals his body and puts it on a cruise ship where it comes to life and kills anyone around him (even innocent cats). This is an incredibly strange little film that tried to capture the blaxploitation movement of the 70s but doing so by having white people appearing in blackface and big afro wigs!!! The main mummy is played by an actor in blackface early in the movie but his "color" changes throughout the film and that includes a couple scenes where he's totally white without any makeup.