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Gris Gris - Voodoo themed films

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240

6.7

6.4

White Zombie (1932)

Director: Victor Halperin
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn, Robert Frazer

Story: A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiance, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.

Log Lady's rating:

4.5

3.6

Chloe, Love Is Calling You (1934)

Director: Marshall Neilan
Cast: Olive Borden, Reed Howes, Molly O'Day, Philip Ober

Story: A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisiana swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband.

6.3

Black Moon (1934)

Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Dorothy Burgess, Cora Sue Collins

Story: A young girl who lives on a tropical island loses her parents to a voodoo sacrifice, but although she manages to escape the island, a curse is put on her. Years later, as an adult, she feels a strong compulsion to return to the island to confront her past.

6.5

Darkest Africa (1936)

Directors: Joseph Kane and B. Reeves Eason
Cast: Clyde Beatty, Manuel King, Elaine Shepard, Lucien Prival

Story: A 15-episode serial in which Beatty goes to darkest Africa to rescue the Goddess of Joba, who is being held by the high priest.

3.5

The Devil's Daughter (1939)

Director: Arthur H. Leonard
Cast: Nina Mae McKinney, Jack Carter, Ida James, Hamtree Harrington

Story: Sylvia Walton returns from Harlem to take over a Jamaican plantation from her vindictive half-sister, amid the growing sound of drums.

7.3

7.2

The Ghost Breakers (1940)

Log Lady's rating:

5.8

5.2

King of the Zombies (1941)

Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor

Story: During World War II, a small plane off the south coast of America is low on fuel and blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crashland on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor.

310

7.1

I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Edith Barrett

Story: A young Canadian nurse (Betsy) comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager (Paul Holland). Jessica seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever. When she falls in love with Paul, Betsy determines to cure Jessica even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony, to give Paul what she thinks he wants.

Log Lady's rating:

4.8

Voodoo Man

Director: William Beaudine
Cast: Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco, Wanda McKay

Story: Dr. Richard Marlowe uses a combination of voodoo rite and hypnotic suggestion to attempt to revive his beautiful, but long-dead wife, by transferring the life essences of several hapless young girls he has kidnapped and imprisoned in the dungeon beneath his mansion.

6.2

Weird Woman (1944)

4.9

The Face of Marble (1946)...

7.2

Voodoo Tiger (1952)

6.3

4.6

Voodoo Island (1957)

3.9

Voodoo Woman (1957)

4.7

The Disembodied (1957)

5.3

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

6.5

Muñecos infernales

4.3

4.6

The Devil's Hand (1961)

4.5

The Dead One

6.5

6.9

Burn, Witch, Burn! (1962)

103

6.7

6.6

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)

Log Lady's rating:

6.9

6.6

The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

Log Lady's rating:

6.8

6.1

The Oblong Box (1969)

Log Lady's rating:

3.6

3.4

Snake People (1971)

2.7

4.8

Santo vs. Black Magic Woman (1973)

6.7

5.7

Sugar Hill (1974)

1.7

Voodoo Black Exorcist (1974)

3.3

4.7

The House on Skull Mountain (1974)

6.9

The Black Mamba

Crypt of Dark Secrets

4.3

Zombie Island Massacre

4.1

2.7

Zombie Nightmare (1987)

876

7.2

7.3

Angel Heart (1987)

Log Lady's rating:

6.1

The Believers (1987)

390

6.3

6.5

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

Log Lady's rating:

6.7

Veerana (1988)

1232

6.2

6.6

Child's Play (1988)

Log Lady's rating:

6.3

4.1

Dead Men Don't Die (1990)

4.2

Black Demons (1991)

3.3

Voodoo Dawn (1990)

4.9

Shock 'Em Dead (1991)

4.1

Night Trap (1993)

152

4.5

4.8

Weekend at Bernie's II (1993)

7.2

5.1

Shrunken Heads (1994)...

6.6

6.5

Tales from the Hood

Curtis's Charm

2.3

4.7

Voodoo (1995)...

6.7

7.2

Eve's Bayou (1997)

7.5

Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework

7.5

6.9

Royal Bonbon (2002)...

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Carried across the Atlantic to the New World, voodoo gave the slaves in the West Indies a new sense of identity and hope. But around it clustered tales of sorcery, animal sacrifice and the walking dead: zombies. Forbidden as evil and dangerous, it became an underground religion, weirdly combined with Christianity.

With the film White Zombie (1932) came the birth of the cinematic voodoo, a subject that soon burgeoned in the genre of Hollywood horror films. Since that time voodoo has been represented in the cinema - and thus, exists in the Western imagination - as a satanic cult threatening to upset the status quo with zombies, black magic, sorcery and human sacrifice. This imagery has served to reinforce racist attitudes and negative stereotypes of black culture.
- Voodoo: Truth and Fantasy by Laënnec Hurbon

Story synopses from IMDB.