Please don't spend money on this.

just watch it!

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Like many horror films of the time period, it's all in fun and Voodoo Man is no exception. It's entertaining, good for a few giggles and, as usual, enjoyable to watch Zucco, Lugosi and Carradine on screen.Here we have Bela Lugosi as Dr. Richard Marlowe, a mad scientist of sorts, that wants to bring his long dead wife back to life. Young women are captured, hypnotized, "zombified" and kept in Marlowe's dungeon, these women are part of the plan to bring back Mrs. Marlowe.George Zucco plays the evil high voodoo priest that mumbles mumbo-jumbo, while John Carradine is the strangest character of them all - a guy that doesn't have much upstairs.Overall a really fun movie - quite enjoyable way to spend an hour with 3 great legends of horror! 8.5/10

The movie kind of just drags on for a while. Stella Saunders (Louise Currie) is a passerby on a remote road when she is led to the house of Dr. Richard Marlowe (Bela Lugosi) who is using young women to reanimate his young, but dead wife. That's really abut it in the way of story. Other characters include sleepy policemen, a screenwriter, a creepy gas station attendant, and John Carradine. The big problem with the movie is that it just drags on, and it never really goes anywhere. Nothing gets done, the story is never really picked up upon, it's just really dull. As with most Lugosi movies, every now and then we get an extreme close up of his eyes. As with a lot of films like this, I can't really recommend it in any other way then the Rifftrax.

"I'd turn back if I were you", Bert Lahr says in "The Wizard of Oz". The poor women in this would be better off to remember that line as they are carried off by John Carradine for mad scientist Bela Lugosi's nefarious plans. Basically a re-tread of "The Corpse Vanishes", this has bizarre witch doctor Lugosi utilizing voodoo with young women to bring his long dead wife back to life rather than an aged Elizabeth Bathory type harping at Lugosi to return her to her youthful state in that 1942 cult classic. This has the benefit of director William Beaudine, the Ed Wood of the 40's, who directed hundreds of features and shorts from the silent era through the 1950's. Beaudine could take the worst script and turn it into something fairly entertaining, which is precisely what happens here. Lugosi, the lead boogie man in this, is surrounded by fellow spooksters John Carradine and George Zucco. The use of a television like device to see what's going on outside Lugosi's lair is just one of the ingenious plot points that helps you forgive the lameness of the story. There's a wonderful twist in the very last minutes of the film that is hysterically funny.

Odd ball horror film, I think its a horror film, starring Bela Lugosi as a doctor trying to resurrect his dead ("not in the way you know death") wife. To that end he kidnaps women who pass by his home on the way to Twin Falls. Aided and abetted by legends John Carradine and George Zucco Lugosi is trying to use a weird form of voodoo to bring his lady back. Into the mess comes a screenwriter on his way to get married who turned down a chance to write a movie based on the missing girl cases, but ends up in the middle of things when the cousin of his bride to be goes missing when she disappears after giving him a ride when he ran out of gas. I'm not making it up. Thats not even half the film. Really. As I said at the top I have no idea if this is a horror film or a comedy since much of the dialog seems to have been written with a knowing edge. You have dialog scenes that don't build plot so much as crack wise, the writer and his brides cousin for example. Its a weird sort of film that probably should not be seen any earlier than 2AM on commercial TV, thats neither good not bad but a weird mixture of the two (sort of like its mixing Horror and comedy). Give Monogram credit for turning out a film that kind of predates the madness that Ed Wood set loose upon the world. For lovers of Lugosi and those who like off the wall treasures (especially stuff that feel like a Late Late Late show movie), all others need not apply.