Quick Rating:  *

 
What a steaming piece of turd this movie is.  It starts out with a voiceover, and the narrator informs us about the "diabolical" and "sinister" practices of voodoo, while we're treated to the fantastic imagery of a world map.  The camera meanders around the world until it settles upon some island Korbai in the Pacific (helpfully labeled on the map as the Snake Island).  And then an image of the ancient (and famous) "Snake Goddess" sculpture appears and flies towards the camera.  Oooh.  Now I'm scared.
 
We're then treated to probably the best scene in the movie.  A formally dressed midget is carrying a chicken and a voodoo doll through a swamp.  His regular sized companion digs up a coffin.  The dwarf chops the head of the chicken off and spills its blood onto the coffin.  The woman inside arises from the dead and the regular-sized dude now has an undead wife!
 
Apparently, voodoo can be used to resurrect women and have them be your slaves.  They can dance, and kill, and fan you when you're hot, but one thing they can't do is talk!  Now, if the makers of this film had followed that premise more closely, this may have been an interesting film.  But they didn't.  And it's not.
 
If it had been about snake people, it would have been interesting.  Based on the title, I was hoping for some half-snake/half-men monsters, but there was none of that.  There were snakes in the movie, but their purpose wasn't explored in depth.  No, this movie was more about the mysterious voodoo, and ... uhh... I really don't know what it was about. 
 
What I do know is that it was bad. 
 
The events of the film supposedly took place on an island.  Most of the action, however, took place on two small and obvious sets.  And these sets must have been leftovers from other movies.  One looked just like an old West town.  The other was a swampy graveyard.
 
The acting was pretty much atrocious.  I realize this movie was recorded in Spanish originally as it was a Mexican film.  But, jeez.  The "capitan" was a hispanic guy speaking in English with a French accent.  The other policeman was supposedly French, but looked and spoke like a true blue American, except when threw "mademoiselle" into his dialogue.  And poor Boris Karloff.  He was old and near death when his footage was shot.  And they made him wear a Colonel Sanders outfit, to boot!  So horrible was this film that for scenes involving his character (obviously after his death), they "veiled" the character so you couldn't tell it wasn't Karloff.  Or, they used a double and shot him from behind or in the dark, or far away.  Oh man, was this bad.
 
Oh, and I have to mention the one romantic scene of the movie.  Worst love scene I've ever seen.  Yes, even worse than those between Anakin and Padme.  First off, the scene comes out of nowhere.  The characters were never linked romantically before this scene (and really only once after).  The talk between them is laughable, and so are the woman's actions afterwards. Luckily zombies came in, making that scene shorter than it could have been (but not shorter than it should have been).
 
I would have given this movie a zero, but it had the aforementioned midget.  And a scene where a female zombie seduces a drunk man, and she, with 4 of her friends, proceed to attack him and eat his flesh.  Plus, I learned something from one of the characters... "Alcohol is responsible for 99.2% of all the world's sins."  Betcha didn't know that!
 
 

 

 
 

Quality: 1.0  Visuals: 2.5  Intensity: 1.5  Laughability: 2.5 
OVERALL RATING: 1.9