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Fresh and Exciting

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

****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.

Voodoo Man is like a lot of the poverty row horrors in that it showed signs that there was a good film in there somewhere, but somehow it just doesn't quite come together. The film starts out pretty good and the first fifteen minutes or so allow for a fine introduction to the story. Girls are disappearing in the town and everyone is concerned. Then we are treated to an excellent scene with Louis Currie and Bela Lugosi with some eerie lighting, great close ups, and a generally spooky atmosphere. Things are looking up!But then 4 minutes later we have George Zucco in face paint and a headdress chanting rubbish backed up by John Carradine acting a fool and banging on a bongo drum. Sigh. Welcome to a Monogram horror film.Oh well, the story continues and it becomes typical poverty row horror dribble with ineffective humor thrown in. The good part is that Louis Currie, Wanda McKay, and the other kidnapped girls look great. George Zucco in the headdress is always funny, and I laughed out loud when the Sheriff said, "Gosh all fish hooks" when he spots Louis Currie wandering around the road. You just can't get that kind of dialog in an 'A' picture.Voodoo Man is not a total waste. Bela Lugosi is fine in the film, and the ladies look great. The first fifteen minutes could almost be mistaken for a better film, and if that mood had continued, Voodoo Man could have been so much more.

Voodoo Man one unintentionally hilarious film done by Monogram has Bela Lugosi a scientist and George Zucco, gas station owner by day and Voodoo Man at night, trying to revive Lugosi's long dead wife Ellen Hall who Bela has kept in a zombie like state. They need the life essence of other young women and Lugosi keeps several on ice, but has to keep getting more. When he kidnaps Louise Currie who is going to her sister Wanda McKay's wedding to Tod Andrews that sets the action of the film in motionYou have to love John Carradine who had one of the great erudite speaking voices ever playing one of two half wit helpers to Lugosi. And how George Zucco was able to keep a straight face while Carradine beat it out on the bongo drum, the magical chant of 'Ramboona' is a great tribute to his ability as an actor. You've got to see Zucco doing his Ramboona chant, you'll be in hysterics.Voodoo Man does that voodoo that we love so well.

For a classic horror fan with an affinity for the great icons of the past, I was positively thrilled to discover through an Internet user that VOODOO MAN was streaming public domain. The reason is that three horror stars of the 40s star in this same film..Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, and John Carradine. I'm not sure if they ever appeared in the same film again, but simple knowledge of seeing Carradine and Lugosi in scenes together had me giddy with excitement. The main plot concerns Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist obsessed with finding a way to bring his beloved wife back to life by using lovely women his henchmen kidnap(including George Zucco who runs a gas station, contacting Lugosi when a female driver passes through, Carradine as a loyal bumpkin who tells girls they're pretty before grabbing them along with Pat McKee)in "lifeforce" experiments. It's one of those poverty row low-budgeters Zucco and Lugosi were known to act in for far less than their worth(the idea that someone of Lugosi's stature was making such a low income is a crying shame, but alas..). The voodoo ceremony with Lugosi evoking "from mind to mind" as Zucco chants some sort of ritualistic jargon, with face paint, costume, and head dress, with Carradine beating on a drum has to be seen to be believed. Carradine is more or less a harmless idiot servant who fears beatings from his master and ogles the pretty girls held captive in a hypnotic trance by Lugosi. Lugosi isn't as completely evil as his usual roles would require for Monogram, only really committing his crimes so he can return his beloved to life. The cheap Monogram sets pale in comparison to those of Universal, but Lugosi's star power helps.Tod Andrews is a reporter whose fiancé, Betty(Wanda McKay) could be in danger as Lugosi's Richard Marlowe believes she is a perfect "affinity" to reawaken his long dead wife, Evelyn(Ellen Hall). Louise Currie is Betty's cousin, Stella, herself kidnapped and put under a voodoo spell. VOODOO MAN may well be a laughingstock for those who find the premise wacky, but I think Lugosi fans will find it worth a look.