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Carlos East
- Lt. Andrew Wilhelm
- (as Charles East)
Rafael Bertrand
- Capt. Pierre Labiche
- (as Ralph Bertrand)
Quintín Bulnes
- Klinsor
- (as Quintin Bulnes)
Julia Marichal
- Mary Ann Vandenberg
- (as July Marichael)
Quintin Miller
- Gomez
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Juan Ibáñez
- Jack Hill(US scenes)
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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- TriviaThis and the three other films in the same package were originally supposed to be shot in Mexico City. Boris Karloff was suffering from pneumonia and had only one lung (the other had been removed due to cancer), and his doctors told him not to travel to Mexico City because of the thin air at its high altitude. Karloff's scenes were shot in Hollywood.
- Quotes
Anabella Vandenberg: Modern science has shown that alcohol is responsible for ninety-nine point two percent of all the world's sins.
- Crazy creditsIn the closing credits, Boris Karloff is billed twice, once as Damballa and then as Carl van Molder.
- Alternate versionsFor the DVD version entitled Cult of the Dead, the 2nd scene in the film, that of zombie revival, is abridged.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 100 Years of Horror: Zombies (1996)
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Not the complete embarrassment you may be expecting.
Just before he died Boris Karloff shot back to back footage for four poverty row horror flicks. Additional scenes were later shot in Mexico - with mostly different actors! - to bring each of them up to feature length.
This is the first and most coherent of this unfortunate quartet of pictures. It's also the dullest. Boris is a plantation owner on an island threatened by a curious voodoo cult that throws in cannibalism and snake worship with the usual business plan of raising of the dead to work in the fields.
The story is bereft of any new ideas and the phallic imagery is rather puerile. Still, we do get some lively snake dancing and the matching of the two sets of footage is not that bad, although Karloff's foreman appears in one scene with a beard and the next scene without!
If only the great man had stopped here!
This is the first and most coherent of this unfortunate quartet of pictures. It's also the dullest. Boris is a plantation owner on an island threatened by a curious voodoo cult that throws in cannibalism and snake worship with the usual business plan of raising of the dead to work in the fields.
The story is bereft of any new ideas and the phallic imagery is rather puerile. Still, we do get some lively snake dancing and the matching of the two sets of footage is not that bad, although Karloff's foreman appears in one scene with a beard and the next scene without!
If only the great man had stopped here!
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Snake People
- Filming locations
- Santa Monica, California, USA(Studio, Karloff's scenes)
- Production companies
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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