In a remote island a
bunch of satanic ceremonies happen as a
madman Klinsor (Quintin Bulnes) and
his Dwarf (Santanon) sacrifice a chicken
to resurrect a woman who practises voodoo
with a snake Kalea (Yolanda Montes)
who carries on practising her witchcraft
on other for her satanic events and
changing some women with some snake
charming moments into zombies.
Some of the army troupe lead by Captain
Pierre Labesch (Rafael Bertrand) tries to
discover some of the evil doings on the
island in which a wealthy plantation
owner Carl van Molder (Boris
Karloff) but these zombies prey on the
plice or any other unit who try to stop
them.
I had a feeling
that this film might be bland and I was
right. In the beginning the moments
looked pretty gothic and twisted with two
supporting characters bringing in a
chicken for a sacrifice and resurrecting
a mummy from a coffin which lamost looked
like one of those old fashioned drive in
films as well as a pre-Grindhouse type of
look to all that's going on but the story
falls flat with too many rushed moments
on dialogues with everyone and I couldn't
understand all that was going on.
There is some good cult cermonies with
the character Kalea having a snake
wrapped around her doing a dance and
chant which also looked fairly gothic on
how all of it was put together and trying
to hypnotise an innocent woman while
sleeping so she can have a nightmare on
her double self with a snake which looked
a bit amusing. All of this looked twisted
but in a good fashion which saves this
film from bombing.
There's many good camera takes on Kalea doing a voodoo dance with a snake
wrapped around her which looked
impressive and almost gothic like.
A good intense shot on Dwarf whipping supporting character Mary Ann Vandenberg which looked very brutal
and impressive making the moment a
good drawing card to a horror flick.
A good moment shot on Mary Ann lying dead with Carl van Moldercovering her up talking about her being
tortured to death as well as a nice
raging moment on Capt. Pierre
Labesch on what had happened which looked fairly
energetic.
There's a good shot on Kalea walking
in with Anabella Vandenberg sleeping and her holding a snake trying
to do a chant towards her along with a
good shot on Dwarf showing
an evil grin.
A good moment with Anabella in a dream and going towards a
coffin as well as opening it and spotting herself lying in a coffin
holding a snake along with a good camera
shot facing her watching this in shock
and horror. Plus there's good moments
with her spooked out and trying to get
away from the area as well as shots on
her walking as if in a trance holding a
snake in her hand standing still looking
like a statue.
There's many interesting cheesy camera
takes on a snake appearing and
disappearing in a bedroom with Pierre looking
shocked and tripping out when this
happens.
A good moment with Klinsor controlling Mary Ann and telling her what to do
which looked definetely twisted as well
as Carl coming in with a rage
and whipping him for doing this which
looked a bit intense.
There's a good moment with Klinsor admiring
himself in a mirror and acting nutty with
good shots on zombies
charging towards him and then freaking
out. There are moments with zombie's attacking
people which seemed to borrow a bit from George
A. Romero's work which seemed to
almost fall flat.
There's also a touch of romance between
two of the main good people characters as
that seemed awfully corny on how it was
done in which seems to be suitable for a
horror film and the horrible events
happening. Alot of leaky holes here
folks.
There's a good moment on Kalea approaching
towards Pierre with a cheesy
close up shot on the snake biting his arm
which you can tell was totally fake.
Then there's the ceremony with the final
soon sacrifice on an innocent woman which
is typical for these satanic ceremonies
in which is very forgettable.
Bottom line is there's the odd
interesting moment in the film which had
1 bat in this review but the rest is crap
and nothing original on this flick at all
and too strange as well as complicated to
be orerly entertaining. There's also very
weak effects too I forgot to mention
which mainly involves a snake attacking.
The acting is in average
shape as this marks to be the last
performance by horror icon an d legend Boris
Karloff (Carl van Molder /
Damballah) before his death in which he
does well portraying scientist in the
film with a deep dark secret. He's good
by acting obnoxious when he needed to as
well as behaving a bit unusual too in
other spots of the film.
Julissa (Anabella Vandenberg) certainly
had the clean cut girl next door type of
attitude and really knew how to act
serious with discussions as well as
innocent like. She drew it all nicely for
her part in it and made a perfect victim
for the final sacrifice in the film.
Carlos East (Lt. Andrew Wilhalm) was a bit cheesy with
his performance as an outgoing type with
a descent attitude in his role but he
wasn't bad at all just a bit cheesy. He
knew how to draw in by acting firltatious
as well as showing some average energy
for what is all happening. He was okay by
portraying a heroic type of personality
into all of this.
Rafael
Bertrand (Capt. Pierre
Labesch) really knew on how to
portray a gruff behavior with his role as
a Captain of his soldiers. He brought out
alot of great energy as well as his
frusterations with the creepy moments and
violent moments too. He also had the
great masucline and rough looks too to
portray this role which was another bonus
to his part in the film.
Yolanda Montes (Kalea) stole the film with
her performance in which she shows alot
of great wicked expressions as well as
her cold soft speaking too whenever she
tries to put a curse on someone or doing
a voodoo type of ceremony with a snake
wrapped around her. She lived to portray
this wicked voodoo character without a
doubt by putting alot of wicked
characteristics in which you wonder if
she's really like this.
Santanón (Dwarf) was quite an attention
getter as an evil dwarf in the film
showing good ugly types of expressions
and really acting evil and obnoxious with
his character. He seemed to be a not so
bad key role to the story. Does a good job suffocating and
getting on top of a chair before falling
down after his throat is slit.
There's alot of
congas playing and jungle type drum
beatings whenever a voodoo ceremony
happens that involves snakes. There's
also some piano playing in certain spots
which sounds average as well as windy
sound effects and other types of evil
cheesy sounds for the plotlines. |