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Inhuman Bitches of the 1950s II: Voodoo Woman (1957)

Inhuman Bitches of the 1950s II: Voodoo Woman (1957)

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Eleanor Johnson
Aug 30, 2024
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Let me start by saying in the clearest terms that I find this movie intolerable for a number of reasons. The acting is bad. The direction is bad. The script is bad. But the chief reason for its horribility is that it’s blazingly racist and stunningly un-self-aware about it—even for the 1950s. But despite all these grim flaws, it makes an important contr…

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