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All in all it feels like Hammer Horror meets Spaghetti Western meets Spanish Ed Wood.
The Fu Manchu films were always weak films and compared badly to many of the Hammer films of the period but this film represents a continued decline in quality from the previous trilogy and feels rather tired.
The plot is that Fu Manchu has discovered a deadly poison in the jungles of Central America which kills only men. The plot slightly derivative of the earlier 'Brides of Fu Manchu'in that Fu Manchu has kidnapped and chained scantily clad women for nefarious purposes, in this case to be used as carriers for the deadly poison to the far ends of the globe by kissing men to death! The Director Jesus Franco had a track record for making films with sadomasochistic themes so these elements are perhaps unsurprising.
Christopher Lee looks rather bored in this film and seems to be just reading out his lines.
score 3/10
philiplsmith100 24 August 2016
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14-3-2021 18:06:07