Voodoo Woman

Voodoo Woman (1957)

Deep in the jungles a mad scientist is using the natives' voodoo for his experiments to create an indestructible being to serve his will. When a party of gold seekers stumbles upon his village, the scientist realizes that Marilyn the expedition's evil leader is the perfect subject for his work.

Erscheinungsdatum
1957-04-11
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (21)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 15 Min.
Genres
Science Fiction, Horror
Regie
Edward L. Cahn

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Voodoo Woman is a 1957 American horror film directed by Edward L. Cahn for Carmel Productions and starring Marla English in her final film role, Tom Conway, and Mike Connors. Paul Blaisdell created, and played, the monster in the film. It was released in February 1957 by American International Pictures as a double feature with The Undead.

Production

Paul Blaisdell who played the monster and also appeared in a small role as a drunken customer in the bar room sequence believed that as producer Alex Gordon had a big hit with The She-Creature, he decided to produce a second film for American International Pictures about a female monster. As the scriptwriters of that film were busy on other films, Gordon turned over the writing to actor Russ Bender, who was a pre-war pulp fiction writer and V.I.

Blaisdell recalled the shoot was not a pleasant one. A prop man handed Tom Conway a small vial of real acid in one scene that was to be poured on the creature's leg, and Blaisdell wound up with a scar on his shin that lasted the rest of his life. Marla English developed a bad case of flu, and Lance Fuller and Mike Connors had a "Who can be taller?" contest with each actor adding higher lifts to their shoes.

Originally titled Black Voodoo, the film was shot during the frigid California winter of 1956-57 under a fast working schedule of six days and a budget of $80,000. Producer Alex Gordon wanted Peter Lorre who again refused to work with him and then called George Zucco, the star of Voodoo Man, who was too ill to work.

In an interview with Tom Weaver, Mike Connors said,

"I remember that they had set the jungle up on a stage, and you could only shoot about ten feet at a time. Then they'd move the camera and shoot ten feet going the other way, and then ten feet sideways and ten feet this way. It was kinda difficult to visualize what you were trying to put over, it was tough to see a jungle that was only ten feet by ten feet square and picture yourself deep in the heart of Africa!"

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