I can remember being tantalized by an old black-and-white
movie series on Saturday nights in 1963, and one particular title was ‘The
Disembodied” (1957), from Allied Artists, by Walter Grauman.
One interesting tidbit is that the series apparently got its
name from the Pittsburgh Chiller Theater were supposedly it was shown.
A photographer (Paul Burke) gets involved in a jungle
accident where a man is mauled by a tiger, and the party winds up in a “resort”
where “voodoo queen” Tonda (Allison Hayes) is trying to entice men into losing
their sense of identity and murder her scroogy husband (John Wen graf).
The 66-minute film is considered “bad”, but I seem to
remember scenes were men would approach her and become aroused or tantalized by
the prospect of their own destruction and physical
desecration, as if they
could be replaced by something else and remember who they had been. There was a
line “she is voodoo queen” repeated with each man.
The cast of the people in the house was said to be “diverse”.
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