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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

What got me about the movie is that one scene seemed to be very well produced, then there would be a sloppy edit, then a horribly produced scene. Lots of scenes using some technique that basically turns everything red, the obligatory mirror smashing scene, with 2 members of the film crew (including the guy holding the camera) visible for more than a full second. Lots of extremely sloppy editing, but I actually thought the plot was good. I watched this off of a 16 horror movie DVD set, so it wasn't like I paid a mountain for it, and I actually enjoyed it. There are several voodoo dancing scenes, that were babe-a-licious. Bad cinema at it's best

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.

I liked this movie, it was well cool. The title automatically grabbed my attention! I was expecting a sort of shlock horror blaxpoitation. And I suppose thats what it is, but I cannot truthfully say it's what I expected. It is definitely worth checking out though!

Oh - And check out the opening scene where for some reason they couldn't get any black actors so they just painted three white folk! Very cool!

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?