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Black Moon (1934)

Black Moon poster
Directed by
Roy William Neill
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 08m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 32 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman travels back to a tropical island where her parents were killed in a voodoo ceremony. She brings her daughter and nanny but soon falls under the spell of the native rituals.

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What happens

Black Moon is a 1934 American pre-Code horror film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Jack Holt, Fay Wray, and Dorothy Burgess. It is based on a short story by Clements Ripley that first appeared in Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan. The film centers on a young woman who returns to the tropical island where her parents were murdered during a voodoo ritual with her daughter and nanny, only to become corrupted by the native's dark rituals. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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