This is a decently-made Boris Karloff vehicle that takes a while to get going and has a rather flat ending but does deliver one or two decent shocks along the way.
Karloff plays Philip Knight a TV hoax-buster brought in by a wealthy industrialist to prove that an island he plans to build a hotel on isn't plagued by a voodoo curse after the sole survivor of his surveying party returns in a zombiefied state. Knight leads a motley party on to the island where ( eventually ) things start to go wrong.
Beverly Tyler ( as Sarah Adams )
Sex : Has a cinch with leading man Rhodes Reason
Death : Survives
Beverly career had a modest career in B-movies before retiring in the early sixties to raise a family with her land developer husband. She was later a regular performer in regional theatre. She died in 2005 aged 78.
Jean Engstrom ( as Claire Winters )
Sex : No
Death : Swims into a carnivorous plant which then suffocates her
Jean was originally Flora Bovie from Detroit. She was mostly a TV actress with only a few film roles. She retired in the mid-sixties and died in 1997 aged 76.
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