Vudú sangriento

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.

Painfully dull Euro-horror thats a retread of the Karloff Mummy set on a cruise ship.

Ages ago a voodoo priest who was having an affair with a married woman kills the husband in a fight. The woman is decapitated and the priest is put into a wooden coffin and buried.

Now. The coffin is dug up and put on a cruise ship. The dead priest comes back to life and begins looking for his reborn love at the same time he's chopping off the heads of some of the passengers.

Its slow. Its dull (with the opening bit about the affair replayed over and over and over again with an all but obscuring red tint) and it has some of the worst paper mache heads you'll ever see flying all over the place.

Cinematic sleep meds.

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.

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!