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kobvindex_ZLB15645805
Format:
1 DVD-Video : s/w
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DVD-R
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Eine von einer exotischen Insel stammende junge Frau ist mit einem Amerikaner verheiratet und lebt mit ihm in den USA. Eines Tages kehrt sie mit ihrem Kind, einem Kindermädchen und der Sekretärin ihres Mannes auf die heimatliche Insel zurück. In Verbindung mit den Voodoo-Riten, an die sie immer noch glaubt, geschehen in der Folgezeit verwirrende Dinge. Als das Kindermädchen ermordet wird, ruft die Sekretärin den Ehemann zu Hilfe, der eben noch verhindern kann, daß sein Kind von der eigenen Mutter geopfert wird. Seine Frau muß er dabei allerdings töten. Ein veralteter, aber recht spannender Film, der sich mit Aberglauben und Voodoo-Kult nicht auseinandersetzt, sondern sie als Nervenkitzel nutzt. - Ab 16. (Lexikon des internationalen Films)
Content:
Voodoo and witchcraft-related horror films often simmer with a whole gris-gris bag of subtext vis-a-vis gender, race, and psychology: usually a white dolt lands on a voodoo island for gold or research, a cute young (white) woman from the village betrays the gods to be with him and they escape in a boat as the island erupts in flames and all the black monsters die except the grinning ferryman who spirits them away where they can breed and uphold the status quo and in later years go "Voodoo? Harumph!". If the woman who betrays her people for the white visitor is not white, however, she dies to save him or heads off to the volcano to do the right things at the last possible moment to appease the miscegenation-phobic censors. If she does live, you must imagine Carl Denham lecturing at a feminist studies group: "She was a queen in her jungle world, but she threw it all away to follow a handsome stranger home to to his own lands, and here she is, barefoot and pregnant, for your own amusement!" A daughter is given birth to and her black maid plays the voodoo drums, activating an inner desire in the girl to return home to the island, to be sacrificed or kill someone else as needed. Few places is this gender/class/race subtext more glaring and yet consciously progressive than Columbia's rare and hard-to-find BLACK MOON (1934). With its mix of horror-action and white man's burden-coded proto-feminism it just may be the least racist and sexist of all 1930s zombie movies --a kind of pre-Lewton Lewton where women understand the supernatural realms instinctively while the men try to keep it all buried via tactics like condescension, humiliation, beatings, and threats, none of which work a damn. (Acidemic Journal of Film and Media)
Note:
Ländercode: Keine Angabe
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Orig.: USA, 1934
Language:
English
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