Isle of the Snake People (1971) on Netflix
Captain Pierre Labiche comes to a remote island to break the hold of the voodoo priest Damballah. Karl van Molder warns him off. Van Molder's niece Annabella arrives for a visit.
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Plot summary
The island's people have followed the voodoo rites of a priest named Damballah for years, and the local officials have left them alone. Captain Pierre Labiche arrives from the mainland to end the lawlessness and to clean up an ineffectual police force that drinks heavily. He asks Karl van Molder for help. Van Molder is a plantation owner who holds nearly half the island and great influence over its people. His life's work is parapsychology, and he believes in hidden powers of the mind. He cautions Labiche to leave the island's old ways alone. Van Molder's niece Annabella is visiting, a campaigner for the International Anti-Saloon League who hopes her uncle will fund it. She falls in love with Lieutenant Andrew Wilhelm. Island women are being turned into zombies, and a snake dancer named Kalea figures in the rites.
Cast
- Quintin Milleras Gomez(uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Isle of the Snake People (1971)
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- Boris Karloff's emphysema kept him from working in Mexico at its altitude, so his scenes in all four films of the package were shot by Jack Hill at the Dorad Studios in Los Angeles in spring 1968, with Karloff resting in a wheelchair between shots.
- Producer Luis Enrique Vergara died unexpectedly, and the film's release was held up while ownership rights of inheritance were settled under Mexican law.
- Boris Karloff initially rejected the scripts for all the films in the package deal, agreeing to them only after Jack Hill rewrote them.
- Some additional scenes involving Boris Karloff's character, Carl van Molder, were filmed using a Karloff stand-in named Jerry Petty.
