Weird Woman (1944)
5/10
Do you believe in voodoo in a young girl's heart
31 January 2015
These Inner Sanctum stories that Lon Chaney, Jr. starred in over at Universal Pictures are the only ones out there where he actually gets the girl. He usually didn't star in parts that called for him getting the girl. But not only does he get the girl in this case Anne Gwynne, but he's got women falling all over the place for him including Evelyn Ankers, Elizabeth Russell, and even the Dean of Women in the college where Chaney plays an archeology professor Elizabeth Risdon gives him the old fish eye.

Chaney tells this one in flashback as he describes bringing home a bride from the South Seas. It's Gwynne who is the daughter of a colleague, but was raised by the witch practitioner on the island and taught all the voodoo tricks of the trade. Not exactly material to be in the faculty wives club.

Anyway Chaney gives the air to Evelyn Ankers and Evelyn ain't about to take being dumped lying down.

No use in going through the rest of the film as bad things start happening to folks around the campus. It's pretty obvious who's responsible.

In a camp sort of way Weird Woman is a whole lot of fun.
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