Curse of Simba narrative location Africa
Curse of Simba, also known as Voodoo Blood Death, is a black-and-white 1965 British-American supernatural horror film set in Africa, but filmed in England in 18 days. Its producer was Kenneth Rive and it was directed by Lindsay Shonteff. The movie was released as Curse of the Voodoo in the United States where it was shown as the second film on a double feature with the low-budget US science fiction movie Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965). Curse of Simba follows a white hunter who brings a curse home to England after enraging the Simbazi, an African tribe, by killing one of the lions that the tribe venerates. To break the curse and live, he must return to Africa and kill the tribal chief who put it on him.