Voodoo Movies

I Walked With A Zombie The definitive and eeriest of the famous Val Lewton/Jacques Tournier horror (?) films.A young American nurse comes to Haiti to care for the catatonic matriarch of a troubled (!)family. Local legends surface when she takes her patient to a voodoo ceremony for "healing." Superb images & atmosphere create unique context for a serious "Jane Eyre" type story. Written by Curt Siodmak & Ardel Wray. Directed by Jacques Tournier. 1943 69min Unrated. Recommended and reviewed by Mike L. Thanks Mike

Voodoo Academy Do not bother. A school full of hunky blond boys run around in bulgy boxer shorts while their scantily attired voodoo priestess headmistress turns them into dolls. Rated r 90 Min 2000

The Believers Martin Sheen is a police department psychiatrist who has just lost his wife to a faulty Mr Coffee machine. His closest friends are secretly members of a Santeria/voodoo cult that want to sacrifice his son. The plot is none to concise, but it is a scarey thriller. There's a really creepy witch doctor guy who has cool looking eyes. Save it for a rainy day or your Halloween film fest.

The Killing Box A B movie about a ghost regiment in the civil war recommended by Steve Nelson

Angel Heart Mickie Rourke is a private detective hire by the devil (Robert Deniro) to track down someone. The detective trappings are straight Sam Spade, but Mr Rourke redefines "a rough night" way beyond anything Sam could conjure up. Lisa Bonet plays a hot young voodoo priestess, that must have given Bill Cosby fits. Only accept the NC-17 version, the sex is essential to the eeriness of the plot. The book Fallen Angel by William Hjortsberg is also worth reading. Brownie McGhee the famous blues artist has a bit part as Toots Sweet. This is scary stuff and was nicely stylized under Alan Parker's writing and direction. 1987 113 minutes Rated R and NC17.

Dead Alive So many people wrote in about this film, that we could no longer ignore it. Director Peter Jackson put together this New Zealand spoof which would do George Romero proud. Lionel played by Timothy Balme is a hen pecked son of a Wellington socialite. He falls for Piquita, a Spanish grocery clerk played by Diana Penalver.He takes her to the zoo where his mom gets bitten by a hairless rat monkey. Before long Mom is a zombie and so is anyone she bites. Sound familiar ? Well, this one is over the top for blood, guts, gore and blood. It could make a morgue attendant gag. At one point Lionel takes an upturned power mower to a roomful of zombies complete with splat and squishing noises. A real Zombie jamboree. 1992 Unrated

The Serpent and The Rainbow This movie was so bad it spoiled the book for me. Ostensibly it 's a quasi documentary about a Harvard ethno botanist who discovers (I.E.: Buys) the secret to making zombies. In the process, he gets Zombified, but live to tell about it. If you like the hallucination scenes here, be sure and check out Roger Corman's The Trip.

Voodoo Dawn Blockbuster put this in their sales bin for $1.99 and I couldn't pass it up. It is really not worth discussing, but it is a voodoo movie and I did sit through it to the end, so I though I'd drop it in.Raymond St James is a voodoo priest that chase two white college boys around the swamps of Louisianna Directed by Steven Fierberg. 1990 Rated R 83 minutes

Voodoo Dawn Not to be confused with the other film of the same name, in this one Michael Madsen is an ex-con that learned a little voodoo while he was in the slammer in Louisiana. He sets out to use his black arts for revenge once he is back on the street. Somehow Jezebel (Rosanna Arquette) who is a stripper sets out to do his dirty work. Her assignment is to bring down A.J. ( Balthazar Getty) and what remains of his family. It's all too confusing and not worth your time. It is, however, a contemporary voodoo movie so we sat through it to the end. Rosanna looks a little different here, or is that my imagination? Look for Pat Perkins as Queenie, the voodoo priestess.

Voodoo Island Boris Karloff made some really bad career decisions and this is one of them. Beverly Tyler co stars with Boris as they muddle through the mystic happening of a murky island. Directed by Reginald LeBorg 1957 75 minute

Dead Alive This was heavily plugged by our under 16 year old movie fans like Woody who tells us: "DEAD ALIVE, dead alive, "Dead Alive" this movie rocks every fun supernatural movie,EVER!! See this, see this!!!!!!!!! "Dead Alive" Rated NC-17 because it was on the border line of just a stupid zombie movie, and the bloodiest movie ever made." Actually it is a well produced horror/zombie movie that does George Romero proud. Filmed in 1957 Wellington, this New Zealand film is so excessively gory that it's funny. Let us know how you liked it , and thanks Woody.