Curse of the Voodoo

Unrated

8/22/19651h 17m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Blood Sacrifice of the Simbazi! ~

Overview:

In Africa, a professional hunter kills a male lion which is sacred to a local tribe which also practices voodoo; and when he returns to England, he finds himself deteriorating under the influence of a curse which they have placed on him for his sacrilege.

Director:

Lindsay Shonteff

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

nightmare
marriage crisis
voodoo
black magic
south africa
delirium
curse
revenge motive
devoted wife
african tribe
self sufficient
big game hunter
face at the window
interfering mother-in-law
lion worshipper
lion hunt
infected wound

Cast

Bryant Haliday

~ as ~

Mike Stacey

Lisa Daniely

~ as ~

Janet Stacey

Dennis Price

~ as ~

Maj. Lomas

Dennis Alaba Peters

~ as ~

Saidi

Danny Daniels

~ as ~

Chief M'Gobo

Mary Kerridge

~ as ~

Janet's mother

Valli Newby

~ as ~

The Girl from the Nightclub

Ronald Leigh-Hunt

~ as ~

Doctor

Beryl Cunningham

~ as ~

Nightclub dancer

Nigel Feyisetan

~ as ~

Simbasa in London

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 1 year(s) ago
3
Now then, where to start.... I am a big fan of the ultimately rather tragic Dennis Price; he was superb in "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949) so thought I'd defy the reviews and give it a chance. Well, you know what - it's dreadful nonsense. Bryant Haliday is a big game hunter who commits the ultimate taboo for a local tribe of voodoo worshippers - he kills a Simla (not the one from the cartoon, you understand...). This is sacrilegious to the locals - and so when Haliday gets back home, suitably cursed, he begins to have hallucinations that he is being chased across rural England by spear-yielding warriors... Now anyone who has ever tried running through a grassy, thistle filled field clad only in a loincloth will appreciate just how difficult - decidedly jaggy and slippy, bestrewn with cow pats - it can be; and that's without a man in skintight white denim taking potshots at you; or indeed, pointing his jeep in your direction... The film is simply woeful; the action scenes filmed and edited as it were a jigsaw puzzle and the music was so interfering as to render the whole thing amongst the worst example of British cinema I have ever had the misfortune to watch.