Review of Voodoo Man

Odd ball horror film, I think its a horror film, starring Bela Lugosi as a doctor trying to resurrect his dead ("not in the way you know death") wife. To that end he kidnaps women who pass by his home on the way to Twin Falls. Aided and abetted by legends John Carradine and George Zucco Lugosi is trying to use a weird form of voodoo to bring his lady back. Into the mess comes a screenwriter on his way to get married who turned down a chance to write a movie based on the missing girl cases, but ends up in the middle of things when the cousin of his bride to be goes missing when she disappears after giving him a ride when he ran out of gas. I'm not making it up. Thats not even half the film. Really. As I said at the top I have no idea if this is a horror film or a comedy since much of the dialog seems to have been written with a knowing edge. You have dialog scenes that don't build plot so much as crack wise, the writer and his brides cousin for example. Its a weird sort of film that probably should not be seen any earlier than 2AM on commercial TV, thats neither good not bad but a weird mixture of the two (sort of like its mixing Horror and comedy). Give Monogram credit for turning out a film that kind of predates the madness that Ed Wood set loose upon the world. For lovers of Lugosi and those who like off the wall treasures (especially stuff that feel like a Late Late Late show movie), all others need not apply.