Voodoo Woman (1957)

User Rating:

3.6/10   

Director:

Edward L. Cahn

Writers:

Russ Bender (writer)
V.I. Voss (writer)

Release Date:

1 March 1957 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

A woman by day... a monster by night!

Plot:

Deep in the jungles a mad scientist is using the natives' voodoo for his experiments to create an indestructible being to serve his will...

Plot Keywords:

Monster | Jungle | Voodoo | Captive | Native

Cast

Marla English	...	Marilyn Blanchard
Tom Conway	...	Dr. Roland Gerard
Mike Connors	...	Ted Bronson (as Touch Connors)
Lance Fuller	...	Rick Brady
Mary Ellen Kay	...	Susan Gerard
Paul Dubov	...	Marcel Chateau
Martin Wilkins	...	Chaka, the Witch Doctor
Norman Willis	...	Harry West
Otis Greene	...	Bobo, the houseboy
Emmett Smith	...	Gandor, native with spear (as Emmett E. Smith)
Paul Blaisdell	...	The Monster
Giselle D'Arc	...	Yvette, the singer
Jean Davis	...	Zuranda, the native girl

Directed by
Edward L. Cahn

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Russ Bender		writer
V.I. Voss		writer

Produced by
Samuel Z. Arkoff	....	executive producer
Alex Gordon	....	producer
James H. Nicholson	....	executive producer

Original Music by
John Blackburn
Darrell Calker

Cinematography by
Frederick E. West

Film Editing by
Ronald Sinclair

Production Design by
Don Ament
Bartlett A. Carre

Set Decoration by
Harry Reif

Costume Design by
Robert Olivas		(as Bob Olivas)

Makeup Department
Carlie Taylor	....	makeup artist
Harry Thomas	....	special makeup

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bartlett A. Carre	....	assistant director

Art Department
Paul Blaisdell	....	constructor: monster suit
Karl Brainard	....	props
Richard M. Rubin	....	props

Sound Department
Robert Post	....	sound

Other crew
Judith Hart	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• American International Pictures (AIP)
• Carmel Productions

Distributors

• American International Pictures (AIP) (1957) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (1993) (USA) (VHS)
• Paramount Home Video (video)
• RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (video)
• Video Film Express (2003) (Netherlands) (DVD)

Runtime:

75 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Unrated | UK:PG

Company:

American International Pictures (AIP)

Trivia:

American International Pictures released this film on a double feature with The Undead (1957).

Movie Connections:

Featured in Trailer Cinema (1992) (TV)

This is bad voodoo

Let's face it, this is a pretty bad film.However if you go in ready to make fun of it you can survive the experience.Okay, you'll scream in agony a lot.African jungle fun in a dopey kind of way.

Tom Conway (who spends most of the film wearing a funky chapeau) is using the local witch doctor and mad science to create a "perfect" being.It looks like a varmint that has been on a six week drunk and is in a sack dress.Ugly is being kind.But it won't kill for him because he's using a good girl as his subject.He needs a bad bad girl.

Marla English and Lance Fuller are two petty crooks in search of African gold.Acting lessons for Ms English should have been at the top of the search list.She's a bad girl and lets everybody know it in a performance worthy of a junior high school play.Mike "Touch" Connors is the white guide English & Fuller con into leading the expedition.

English & Conway finally meet and it is a match made in hell.She is the perfect subject to become his voodoo creature because she'll do anything (stress anything) to get what she wants.You will do anything to stop the agony of this movie at this point.

What made this movie interesting for me was Conway wearing that funky tribal hat/headdress/floral piece!Still trying to figure out what kind of dead animal it was.Guess he thought if he pulled it down low enough over his eyes nobody would recognize him.

Truly bad cinema.