****SPOILERS****The big three,Bela Lugosi John Carradine & George Zucco, of the bottom basement Monogram studio put their talents together in this flick about voodoo and kidnapping as they all are involved in kidnapping pretty women motorists to be used for experiments in the crazed Dr. Richard Marlow's, Bela Lugosi, plan to resurrect his dead wife Evelyn, Ellen Hall, back to life. Catching the confused women on the road to Twin Falls Dr. Marlow has his two goons Toby & Grego, John Carradine & Pat McGee, kidnap them and bring the women to his in his underground laboratory. It's there where Dr. Marlow's voodoo expert Nicholas or Nick the Greek, George Zucco, does his thing in a crazy and confusing ritual where he just goes plain crazy talking mombo jumbo like jive to bring the dead, Evelyn , back to life!
Not much of a story but still worth watching in the way Lugosi Carradine and Zucco ham it up that make the film look more like a comedy then a horror movie.The hero Ralph Dawson, Tod Andrews, in the movie ends up getting the lights turned out on him and doesn't have anything to do with putting an end to Dr. Marlow's crimes which included him kidnapping Dawson's wife Betty, Wanda McKay. At the end when the movie finally ended it's Dawson who's a movie screen writer who suggests that star of the film he's to write about what he experienced in real life, in the movie "Voodoo Man", should be no other then actor Bela Lugosi! Thus giving Lugosi who's been down and out on his luck at the time a plug in his own film.
The last film that Bela Lugosi made for Monogram Pictures before he sunk into his own real horror movie of drug abuse that almost ended up killing him. It took Bela some 10 years to get his act straighten out by kicking the habit but by then he was almost completely forgotten by the movie going public. It was that great bad movie director Ed Wood JR who resurrected Bela's career with bad movie classics like "Glen & Glenda" as well as "Bride of the Monster" that put Bela back in lights as well as on the silver screen.
Not much of a story but still worth watching in the way Lugosi Carradine and Zucco ham it up that make the film look more like a comedy then a horror movie.The hero Ralph Dawson, Tod Andrews, in the movie ends up getting the lights turned out on him and doesn't have anything to do with putting an end to Dr. Marlow's crimes which included him kidnapping Dawson's wife Betty, Wanda McKay. At the end when the movie finally ended it's Dawson who's a movie screen writer who suggests that star of the film he's to write about what he experienced in real life, in the movie "Voodoo Man", should be no other then actor Bela Lugosi! Thus giving Lugosi who's been down and out on his luck at the time a plug in his own film.
The last film that Bela Lugosi made for Monogram Pictures before he sunk into his own real horror movie of drug abuse that almost ended up killing him. It took Bela some 10 years to get his act straighten out by kicking the habit but by then he was almost completely forgotten by the movie going public. It was that great bad movie director Ed Wood JR who resurrected Bela's career with bad movie classics like "Glen & Glenda" as well as "Bride of the Monster" that put Bela back in lights as well as on the silver screen.