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| Curse of Simba | |
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 Australian theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Lindsay Shonteff |
| Screenplay by | Brian Clemens (as "Tom O'Grady") Leigh Vance |
| Produced by | Richard Gordon |
| Starring | Bryant Haliday Dennis Price |
| Cinematography | Gerald Gibbs |
| Music by | Brian Fahey |
Production company | Gala Film |
| Distributed by | Allied Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 77 min (UK) 61 min (US) |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £50,000[1] |
Curse of Simba (also known as Voodoo Blood Death; U.S. title: Curse of the Voodoo), is a black-and-white 1965 British-American supernatural horror film directed by Lindsay Shonteff and starring Bryant Haliday and Dennis Price.[2] The screenplay was by Brian Clemens (as Tom O'Grady) and it was produced by Kenneth Rive.
In the United States where it was shown as the second film on a double feature with the low-budget US science fiction movie Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965).
The film follows a white hunter who brings a curse home to England after enraging the Simbazi, an African tribe, by killing one of the lions that the tribe venerates. To break the curse and live, he must return to Africa and kill the tribal chief who put it on him.
- ^ John Hamilton, The British Independent Horror Film 1951-70 Hemlock Books 2013 p 142-144
- ^ "Curse of Simba". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 7 May 2024.