Vudú sangriento (1973)

User Rating:

2.3/10   

Director:

Manuel Caño

Writers:

Santiago Moncada (screenplay)
Santiago Moncada (story)

Release Date:

May 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

This dude means business, so watch out when your nerves start to shatter!

Plot:

The mummy of long dormant, but powerful Caribbean voodoo priest Gatanebo gets revived on a luxury South...

Plot Keywords:

Voodoo | Mummy | Occult | Zombie | Decapitation

Cast

Aldo Sambrell	...	Gatanebo
Tanyeka Stadler	...	Kenya
Alexander Abrahan
Fernando Sancho	...	Inspector Dominguez (as Ferdinand Sancho)
Alfredo Mayo	...	Dr. Kessling (as Alfred May)
Eva León	...	Sylvia (as Eva Lion)
Ricardo Rodríguez		(as Richard Rod)
Enrique del Río		(as Henry River)
María Antonia del Río		(as Mary A. River)
Kess Bridge
Louis Marin
Antony Houss
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Fernando Hilbeck
Julio Peña

Also Known As:

Voodoo Black Exorcist (USA)

Runtime:

88 min | USA:84 min (DVD version)

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Dominican Republic

Company:

Mingyar P.C.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: When the exotic dancer is killed the cameraman is clearly visible in the mirror her head is repeatedly smashed into.

"You Speak English Very Well....3,000 Years in Museums Taught Me Many Things"

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?