OK, this is an odd week in a couple of ways. Not only are there too may “art” titles opening — four is just more than the market will bear — but exactly what is opening in the supposedly mainstream realm is still open to some question, and that’s a question that won’t be answered till sometime tomorrow.
Voodoo Man / Return of the Ape Man
In Brief: Bela Lugosi's last two films for Monogram Pictures make for a heady double dose of Poverty Row insanity that makes for an existential cinematic experience. In Voodoo Man, the "Master of Horror" tries to bring his alarmingly ambulatory "dead" wife back to life with the aid of gas-station owner and part-time witch doctor…