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The jungles of Bumbasa, 1910: Agnes (Bárbara Rey) has been captured by
a gang of voodoo worshippers, is dragged to their ritual ground called the
cauldron, is whipped naked, then decapitated. A detail of colonial
soldiers arrives and guns down all the voodooists, but too late to save
Agnes ... whose head still seems alive and has grown vampire teeth. Bumbasa,
now (1973 that is): Professor Grant (Jack Taylor) has made it his mission
to investigate the disappearance of elephants in the region, so he and his
little group - Liz (María Kosty), the useless daughter of Grant's
financier, Carol (Loreta Tovar), girl reporter, guide Rod Carter (Simón
Andreu) and Rod's girlfriend Tunaka (Kali Hansa) - put up camp quite near
to the cauldron. Rod and Tunaka sneak away from the others to make love
near a river, but Carol figures it would be a great idea to go after them
and make pictures of them having sex. She stumbles onto the cauldron,
where the dead spontaneously decide to rise and capture her, then vampiric
Agnes hits the scene, whips her naked and decapitate her - in order to
make her her vampiric partner. Carol's disappearance has the others
worried sick, especially when they find her camera in the jungle,
something she would never give up willingly. But while Rod and Tunaka
decide to do some worrying together, vampires Agnes and Carol enter the
camp, and while Carol lures Liz to the cauldron to vampirize her as well,
Agnes kills professor grant in his makeshift photolab where he was busy
developing the film from Carol's camera. The next night, Rod decides to
investigate the cauldron, which is known to be a breeding place for
voodooists, while Tunika stays behind in camp ... bad idea, because Tunika
is soon kidnapped by the voodooists, dragged to the cauldron and prepared
for sacrifice. But Rod throws an ammonition belt into a fire to create a
diversion, grabs Tunika, carries her back to his car, and they manage to
escape just before the voodooists manage to catch up.However, Tunika isn't
quite herself anymore ... A vampire film set in the jungle,
with vampire girls running around in fur bikinis in slow motion - yup,
that sums up Night of the Sorcerers rather accurately, and if you
add quite a bit of nudity, some crude gore scenes, your typical simplistic
plot, and the occasional touch of atmosphere, then you know you're in for
a fun piece of Eurohorror, 1970's style ... and that's exactly what Night
of the Sorcerers is, nothing great, and if memorable then for all the
wrong reasons, but the genre afficionado will like at least something
about this one.
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