Verdict
Summary
It feels a lot like an Emmanuelle film with its exotic locales, attractive, let’s-try-anything-with-anyone lead actresses, and a pulsing, jazz score with lots of drums and rhythms. It doesn’t have much of a story, but movies such as this don’t especially need one, do they?
Plot:
A woman comes to Haiti and finds herself in the center of an elaborate voodoo ritual.
Review:
Susan (Ada Tauler) marries a British consulate (Jack Taylor) to Haiti, and when she arrives, she becomes acquainted with her husband’s blonde bimbo sister Olga (played by Karine Gambier), who is very close to her husband in ways that seem … inappropriate. Olga is the type of woman to lounge around nude all day around the house, even in front of her brother, and they even take bubble baths together, and she makes it very clear that she’s completely game to become Susan’s on-the-side lover if only she’s willing to give it a try. Before more than a day or two passes, Susan is having convulsions and seizures, but they’re pleasurable and she has orgasms while doing so, but the episodes can’t reasonably be explained. She finds herself almost sleepwalking around the house and the beach wearing only a loose-fitting bathrobe, and in her daze-like state she is inducted into a strange local culture of voodoo and nightlife where she is invited by her seductive housekeeper Ines (played by the stunning Vicky Adams who never made another film) to participate in random sex with strangers who also seem to be under a spell. While Ines reveals herself to be some kind of voodoo queen, Susan realizes too late that she is part of a murder plot where she is the pawn while under a voodoo haze.
Jess Franco’s thin-on-the-bone sex chiller Voodoo Passion is just a hair’s breadth away from being a hardcore porno movie with its nearly nonstop graphic nudity (both male and female) and sex scenes that barely escape from featuring full-on penetration. It feels a lot like an Emmanuelle film with its exotic locales, attractive, let’s-try-anything-with-anyone lead actresses, and a pulsing, jazz score with lots of drums and rhythms. It doesn’t have much of a story, but movies such as this don’t especially need one, do they?
Full Moon brings Voodoo Passion to Blu-ray in a satisfactory widescreen high definition transfer, and it comes with an audio interview with Franco, plus trailers, and a slideshow.
