cult film freak: LORETA TOVAR NECKS KALI HANSA IN 'NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS'

Loreta Tovar in NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS/LA NOCHE DE LOS BRUJOS Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2

Spanish director Amando de Ossorio brings back THE LORELEY'S GRASP flirtatious schoolgirl Loreta Tovar as a safari photographer in NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS... and while she was the last hot ingenue to be attacked there, here she's the present-time first girl, making the reliable mistake of wandering out alone...

Beginning with gorgeous red-haired missionary Bárbara Rey killed by an African native zombie tribe in 1910, we cut to modern times where Loreta Tovar's part of a safari including another gorgeous blonde María Kosty, coveted by handsome guide Simón Andreu's voluptuous brunette girlfriend Kali Hansa...

Loreta Tovar and María Kosty in NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS

Basically, SORCERERS is a body-count proto-slasher more than vampire horror flick... mostly involving bitten Tovar and her original biter Rey running scantily-clad though slow-motion day-for-night b-movie lighting...

And at the sparse 90-minute run-time, by the time the tension picks up, resilient final girl Kali Hansa isn't given enough time, despite her perfectly-fitting cat-woman countenance within the bongo-beating-with-wah-wah-guitar-backed Spanish-shot jungle setting... keeping this surreal-dream from becoming the full-blown exotic nightmare it deserves.