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An evil scientist runs a veritable army of LSD-crazed zombies.An evil scientist runs a veritable army of LSD-crazed zombies.An evil scientist runs a veritable army of LSD-crazed zombies.
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 film and the three other horror films in the same package were originally supposed to be shot in Mexico City. At the time, Boris Karloff was suffering from pneumonia and only had half of one lung (the other half and the other one had been removed due to cancer), and his doctors had told him not to travel to Mexico City because of the thin air at its high altitude. All of Karloff's scenes for all four of these films were shot on a soundstage in Hollywood in 1968 as a result.
- 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 of this film titled "Cult of the Dead", the second scene in it, the one of the zombie revival, is abridged.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 100 Years of Horror: Zombies (1996)
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Voo-don't.
A voice-over attempts to explain the religion of voodoo to the uninitiated, after which we witness a ritual presided over by a leering midget in sunglasses and a top-hat who sacrifices a real chicken (lopping off the poor bird's head with a machete) in order to raise a woman from the dead.
Cue groovy titles.
Written and co-directed by Jack Hill, the man behind several hugely entertaining exploitation classics from the '60s and '70s, Snake People certainly has the right ingredients to be a whole lot of schlocky fun: graveyard ceremonies (complete with plastic skeletons), a sexy priestess who gyrates with a snake, zombies, cannibal women, Boris Karloff, a bull-headed French cop who riles the locals, and a beautiful young woman destined to be sacrificed.
Unfortunately, Hill only handled Karloff's scenes in L.A., leaving the majority of the film to be directed in Mexico by Juan Ibáñez, who displays little of Hill's movie-making moxie. Ibáñez's direction is lethargic, turning potential exploitation gold into dull, repetitive and occasionally incomprehensible nonsense.
Poor old Karloff starred in four of these low budget Mexican/US co-productions during the twilight of his career, but was spared the pain of seeing the end results by popping his clogs before their release.
Cue groovy titles.
Written and co-directed by Jack Hill, the man behind several hugely entertaining exploitation classics from the '60s and '70s, Snake People certainly has the right ingredients to be a whole lot of schlocky fun: graveyard ceremonies (complete with plastic skeletons), a sexy priestess who gyrates with a snake, zombies, cannibal women, Boris Karloff, a bull-headed French cop who riles the locals, and a beautiful young woman destined to be sacrificed.
Unfortunately, Hill only handled Karloff's scenes in L.A., leaving the majority of the film to be directed in Mexico by Juan Ibáñez, who displays little of Hill's movie-making moxie. Ibáñez's direction is lethargic, turning potential exploitation gold into dull, repetitive and occasionally incomprehensible nonsense.
Poor old Karloff starred in four of these low budget Mexican/US co-productions during the twilight of his career, but was spared the pain of seeing the end results by popping his clogs before their release.
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- 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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By what name was Isle of the Snake People (1971) officially released in Canada in English?
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