The Leech Woman

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CodyZamboni Z @CodyZamboni 06/24/2024 Watchable B flick, Aging, needy wife goes with husband to Africa to seek youth magic powder, But, there's a catch, To keep her looks, she has to keep killing men, Solid performances, lots of bitchy dialogue, But way too much time spent on African wildlife grainy stock footage, See more Ted B @Movieaddicted 06/23/2024 1 star; The budget for this movie could not have been more than $2.50. There was an overuse of stock footage. The acting was awful. The plot never moved at all. A refund should be demanded from whoever wrote the script for this terrible attempt at a Sci-Fi picture. I think this movie is so bad. It won't even qualify to be a cult classic. See more Dallas H @RT53171010 06/23/2024 Why does this movie feel like it used blackface? See more Blobbo X @Blobbo 04/02/2024 Not close to good but liked anyway. (No leeches were harmed - or figured in in any way in the making of this feature.) See more georgan g @RT98616417 09/19/2022 This film is so filled with stereotypes that it's laughable. And it takes place in Africa, so you can imagine the racism shown. One of those films that is so bad, it's good, in it's own way. See more 08/17/2021 A few years before Mondo Cane would popularize the use of tribal footage, The Leech Woman takes scenes of African wildlife and tribal dances from the 1954 adventure movie Tanganyika to spice up its tale of a middle aged woman becoming young again by, well, becoming a leech woman. It starts off promising — a mysterious old woman named Malla (Estelle Hemsley, who was an early African-American star) claims to have been brought to America as a slave nearly 140 years ago and wants to be beauitiful and young for one more night, but only in her home country of Africa. To pay for the trip, she promises to teach endocrinologist Dr. Paul Talbot the secret of how she has stayed alive for so many years. Dr. Paul is the kind of jerk given to saying things like "Old women give me the creeps." Too bad that he's married to a woman ten years older than him. But after a trip to Africa, in which he witnesses a ritual in which a man is killed and his pineal gland secretions harvested and mixed with orchid pollen. His wife turns the tables and kills off Dr. Paul, using his glands to become young again — yet gets older every time it wears off — murdering people under the secret identity of her niece Terry Hart. She falls for a lawyer and tries to use the glands of his girlfriend, but it doesn't work, so she does what we all would: throws herself to a window, leaving behind a husk. Director Edward Dein also made Curse of the Undead. This movie was made so that Universal-International would have a movie to play with Hammer's Brides of Blood. That movie is magic. This perhaps not so much. See more Read all reviews

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