Curse of the Voodoo Rating: Release Date: 04 May, 1999 Retail Price: $24.95 OUR Price: $22.46 You SAVE: $2.49! Cast: Lindsay Shonteff Bryant Haliday Dennis Price Jean Peters Complete Cast (7 total)

Curse of the Voodoo Reviews

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For Those Sleepless Nights
If you sit through this b/w British horror film about a stupid voodoo curse all the way to the end, you must be a horror completist. It's absolutely worthless junk without even any camp value. If you can't fall asleep, slip this disc in and you'll be out in no time.

Rod Allison
A British hunter (Bryant Haliday) is on an African safari, when a less skilled hunting mate wounds a lion which then runs into the territory of a tribe that worships lions as a god. The hunter (Haliday) and his local African partner reluctantly chase down and kill the wounded lion.

The tribe puts a curse on him which follows him back to London, causing deteriorating health and hallucinations. He sees tribesmen - some in Western attire, some in loin cloths with spears - lurking around him in London. He can't convince anyone other than his estranged wife that it isn't due to insanity or his excesssive drinking. His African partner is held captive by the tribe and tormented.

Eventually, when his wife learns that the only way to break the curse is to return to Africa and kill the one who put it on him, he goes back to try to break the curse and rescue his partner.

Haliday puts in a strong performance as the anti-hero hunter, and the dark, psychological story has a lot of bite. Some viewers (and reviewers) are obviously put off by what they consider negative depictions of Arficans. Hollywood's current code of political correctness would never allow some of a film's African characters to be shown as superstitious, primitive, or the "bad guys," as this picture does.

To the contrary, I felt the picture reflected its creator's honest and informed assement of Africa, and the disregard for political correctness was not only refreshing, but a display of candor and open mindedness when compared to today's films.

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