Death Curse of Tartu (1966) on Netflix
Student archaeologists head into the Florida Everglades to hunt fossils for an assignment. Four of them choose the burial site of Tartu, an ancient medicine man, for a dance party.
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Plot summary
Four students travel into the Florida Everglades on an archaeology assignment, looking for fossils. The area they enter carries a curse laid by a Native American witch doctor, and an ancient Indian medicine man named Tartu is buried there. For a dance party, the students pick his burial site. The medicine man comes back from the dead as various animals to punish those who desecrated his grave.
Cast
- Fred Pineroas Ed Tison(Fred Piñero)
- Babette Sherrillas Julie Tison(Babbette Sherrill)
- Sherman Hayesas Johnny
- Doug Hobartas Tartu(Douglas Hobart)
- Maurice Steuartas Joann
- Gary Holtzas Tommy
- Brad F. Grinteras Explorer(uncredited)
- Maurice Stewartas Joann
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Death Curse of Tartu (1966)
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- While shooting in the Everglades, the crew used a real boa constrictor in one key scene; the snake suddenly lunged at the actor, which added realism but increased the risk to the performers.
- Doug Hobart, who played the shaman Tartu, persuaded director William Grefé to drop the planned simple rubber mask; after dreaming the character's face he built his own makeup, a wrinkled, dense face with heavy brow ridges and bone-like inserted teeth.
- According to Brian Senn, the screenplay was written in twenty-four hours and the entire film was shot in just seven days on a budget of about 27,000 dollars.
- After «Укус смерти» was finished, the distributor ordered William Grefé to quickly shoot another picture to play on a double bill; that is how Death Curse of Tartu went into production.
- Frank Weed, who played Sam, supplied his own animals for the attack scenes, and some of those scenes were filled out with stock footage; for the final cut his voice was dubbed by another performer.
