Spain, 1973
88m
35mm film, Eastmancolor, 2.35:1, Techniscope
mono, Spanish
A Spanish horror film directed by Manuel Caño.
Plot Summary
A long dead and mummified Caribbean voodoo priest is revived on a South Seas ocean liner and starts to murder the passengers.
Credits
Crew
Director: Manuel Caño
Rosgard of Miami [US version only] and Mingyar of Madrid
Script: S. Monkada
Director of Photography: Robert Ochoa [real name: Roberto Ochoa]
Editing Supervisor: Tonny Loaysa [real name: Antonio Ramírez de Loaysa]
Editor: Frederic Vich
Music: Fernand Morcillo [real name: Fernando García Morcillo]
Make Up: Sergy Casttle [real name: Sergy Castello]
Special Effects: Antony Molina [real name: Antonio Molina]
Set Dresser: E. Tower
Cast
Aldo Sambrell [Guedé Nibo]
Tanyeka Stadler [the dancer]
Alexander Abraham [Johnny]
Fernando Sancho [Commissioner Domínguez]
Alfred May [real name: Alfredo Mayo] [Dr Kessling]
Eva Lion [real name: Eva Léon] [Silvia]
Richard Rod [real name: Ricardo Rodríguez] [Freddy]
Henry River [real name: Enrique del Río] [rich passenger]
Mary A. River [real name: María Antonia del Río] [Mrs Thorndyke]
Kess Bridge
Louis Marin
Antony Houss
Alternative Titles
Bloody Voudou – working title
La vengeance du zombie – France
Voodoo Black Exorcist – Canada, USA
Loa vudu – working title
Links
Extracts included in
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
References
Periodicals
- Cineinforme no.223 (May 1975) p.11
- Weng’s Chop no.9 (August 2016) pp.16-17 – illustrated review (by Matthew St. Cyr)
Books
- Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.286, 288
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.421
- The Mummy on Screen: Orientalism and Monstrosity in Horror Cinema by Basil Glynn
