In India, during the colonial era, wealthy but arrogant plantation owner Clive Dawson has a steamy affair with a local beauty, but he abruptly breaks it off to return to Britain and marry the lovely upper-class Brenda. The native girl - Shaheen - doesn't deal well with rejection and speaks out a curse to Clive and the entire estate. When he returns with his bride Brenda, Shaheen allegedly committed suicide, but he firmly believes her wrathful spirit is still around. While Clive is too busy getting paranoid and convinced his ex-mistress turned into a tiger, his freaky son Rupert - from his first marriage - becomes rather friendly with Brenda.
Is it me, or does the plot summary sounds like it's coming from a sappy TV-soap opera, rather than from an early 70s euro-exploitation flick? The 1930s colonial setting is intriguing, but the plot is rather dull, and the horror elements really don't come to the surface. Still, though, there's something very ominous about the atmosphere, and the leading ladies (Mary Maude, Yelena Samarina and Rosalba Neri) are gorgeous.
I'm an admirer of writer/director José Ramón Larraz, for sure! Perhaps he's not as productive as his contemporary compatriot Jésus Franco, but he made two dozen of worthwhile horror films that between 1970 and 1990. "The Uncertain Death" is, together with "Symptoms" and "The House that Vanished", rather average. For his masterpiece, check out "Vampyres". For his most entertaining outings, look for the 80s trash-slashers "Edge of the Axe" and "Rest in Pieces".
Is it me, or does the plot summary sounds like it's coming from a sappy TV-soap opera, rather than from an early 70s euro-exploitation flick? The 1930s colonial setting is intriguing, but the plot is rather dull, and the horror elements really don't come to the surface. Still, though, there's something very ominous about the atmosphere, and the leading ladies (Mary Maude, Yelena Samarina and Rosalba Neri) are gorgeous.
I'm an admirer of writer/director José Ramón Larraz, for sure! Perhaps he's not as productive as his contemporary compatriot Jésus Franco, but he made two dozen of worthwhile horror films that between 1970 and 1990. "The Uncertain Death" is, together with "Symptoms" and "The House that Vanished", rather average. For his masterpiece, check out "Vampyres". For his most entertaining outings, look for the 80s trash-slashers "Edge of the Axe" and "Rest in Pieces".