This movie has great story line. It also great acting. It is better then The Exorcist. It has great special effects. It is very scary. If it does not scary you no movie will. I cant not believe that people do not like it. 3 is underrating this movie. What is your problem people. This is one of the best horror movies ever.

Another of the dreadful Mexican cheapies Boris Karloff made at the end of his career. All were filmed in 1968 and released later. It's pretty sad that this is one of Karloff's final roles. The plot involves voodoo, as a number of these dreary ugly horror movies made during this period do. I guess the voodoo fad was late making its way to Mexico. There's not a single positive thing I can say about this wretched unwatchable excuse for a film. Even the ailing Karloff, who filmed his scenes in a studio stateside and had to rest in a wheelchair between takes, can do nothing to help this. It actually makes me sad to see him like this. Anyway, Karloff buffs may want to check this film off their list. I see no other reason anyone else should subject themselves to this.

SNAKE PEOPLE is one of the infamous 'Mexican quartet' of films that Boris Karloff shot on the cheap shortly before his death in 1969. This one was filmed in 1968 but didn't actually get released until 1971, making it his penultimate screen appearance. I've seen three of the four of these films now and they're all similar in that they're extremely low budget horrors, made with a little imagination and lots of choppy editing that sometimes makes it feel like you're watching two films joined together, like those Godfrey Ho ninja flicks of the 1980s. SNAKE PEOPLE is one of the most disappointing of the four, because it has a lot of scope and a lot of potential. As usual, directorial chores are shared between exploitation king Jack Hill and Juan Ibanez. Individually, scenes are well shot, atmospheric, and contain a great visual style, but this is a film that's less than the sum of its parts. The editing is poor beyond belief, the script is flat and lifeless and too many ideas have been crammed in here with none of them coming to full fruition.The movie kicks off on a surreal high as a bespectacled dwarf, nicknamed Baron Samedi, sets about digging up the body of a recently deceased woman. There's a kind of madness hanging in the background, a sense of voodoo lurking unseen nearby and this is the film's best asset: a creepy atmosphere throughout. After this we're thrown into a plot involving a bullish police 'capitan' attempting to teach the pesky natives a thing or two, while the island's soldiers are dispatched with machetes and garrotes and Boris Karloff wanders around in his study, talking about telekinesis. Occasionally we go back to the evil dwarf and meet some zombies who are a cross between the willing slaves of 1940s zombie flicks and the flesh eaters of Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. The film ends with a fully fledged voodoo ceremony but the climax is mishandled, just like the rest of the flick.The cast isn't really worth mentioning, other than Karloff who puts in his usual good performance – this actor never shows anything less than complete integrity. Too much time is spent with ageing real-life dancer Tongolele, who adds nothing to the plot other than a poor makeup job, and then there's the padding: endless scenes of dancing, of native mumbo-jumbo, sexist comments, repetition in the extreme, and then a ten minute dream sequence that has nothing to do with the rest of the movie! This bit involves attractive starlet Julissa finding herself trapped in a cave with her ghostly doppelganger. Like the rest of the film, it looks cool although makes little sense. Add into the mix some poor special effects, hints at necrophilia and lesbianism, and you have a could-have-been movie that's an ultimate disappointment. I rated this on par with DANCE OF DEATH, with ALIEN TERROR being the best of the four so far.

This film's only distinction is that it's one of several quickie appearances Boris Karloff made in some ultra-low budget Mexican films shortly before he died. The funny thing is that several of the films sat around and were released several years after his death--this one coming out three years later! Why Karloff did this, I have not idea--I assume he really needed the money as none of them were very good and several were downright embarrassing. It was sad epilogue to the fine actor's career.This film is about voodoo, magic, witchcraft, zombies and the like. It's set on a crappy little isolated tropical island where Karloff is the boss-man. A new police chief sent from the mainland has arrived and tries to both organize the lazy police force and stamp out the evil cult. I liked when you first see Karloff, as he's dressed in Colonel Sanders' outfit--and I half expected to see him carrying about a bucket of chicken! Instead, however, he has the obligatory mad scientist lab where he conducts experiments on psychic powers.It's actually pretty odd how long it takes for anything to actually happen on this godforsaken island. Heck, you don't even meet Karloff's character until about 20 minutes into the film. Much of the time, you see bits and pieces of various pagan ceremonies--many of which feature a very curvaceous woman gyrating and a groovy little midget with cool shades and a flower painted on his head (the guy has real style) running about doing...well...I dunno...nor, apparently, did the film makers. And, as you watch the film you notice this is true of just about everyone--there really isn't much of a plot and it's just a long series of freaky vignettes like you'd see in an old fashioned spook house--not really a comprehensible film. And, unless you are a die-hard Karloff fan, this is definitely one to skip--heck, it's not even of much value to a bad movie buff.