Kingkitsch Allied Artists turned out a number of films in the the 1950s, most of which were dismal, abysmal, and just plain snoozers. Only a few, such as "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" and the bug-eyed alien classic "Invasion of the Saucer-men" were worth watching instead of making out in the back seat of your dad's Edsel in the 1950s. "The Disembodied" is a real sleeping pill of a movie, despite the sultry charms of Allison Hayes, who would go on to cult status as the titular 50 foot woman a year after this steamy nonsense was released as the bottom half of a voodoo drive-in double bill."The Disembodied" features minimal sets that appear to have been stolen from a senior prom called "Jungle Romance". Hayes tries her best to give you evil voodoo priestess realness, but ends up gyrating around in a leopardskin mini-skirt while attempting to put the gris-gris on her doctor hubby. Why she's trying to kill hubby is never explained, but she's soon diverted from this time wasting hobby by the arrival of three men who need her husband's medical prowess. Ms. Hayes puts the hex on a very young Paul Burke for sexy reasons, although she's done this to a number of other sweaty nubile natives. A girl gets bored out there in jungleland, evidently. Dreary drama ensues, making this sixty minute tedium seem much longer than it is. The male actors are upstaged by Allison's sweet moves, and the chest hair of nearly every man in the movie. For a 1950s production, the torso fur is plentiful indeed, especially from John Wengraf who plays the doctor hubby. Add a lot of sweat and you have eye candy, if you're into that sort of thing. Allison swings a dead chicken around while dancing, it looks unpleasantly real, which it probably was. The budget for this couldn't have covered a fake fowl. Anyway, she whacks it over the body of a voodoo victim for reasons all her own. There's a plot here, somewhere. Voodoo must be Allison's ticket out of the kudzu in a search for real love or sex. Who knows? Characters plod between the three or four sets and you wish someone would whack you with a dead chicken. If you can sit through this dull excuse for a thriller, you'll be picking chest hair out of your teeth by the time it's over. This trash is bad, and not in a good way. Avoid, unless you're hot for Allison. Not even her sexy appeal can save this torrid tale of voodoo love.

Michael_Elliott Disembodied, The (1957) * 1/2 (out of 4) Allison Hayes plays Tonda Metz, a beautiful woman living in the jungle with her much older husband (John Wengraf) who just happens to be a doctor. A group of men are making a movie in the jungles when one is attacked by a lion so they take him to the doctor and soon the wife tries to get her hooks into Tom (Paul Burke) but he feels something is wrong and he's correct because the lady is a voodoo princess. THE DISEMBODIED has a pretty bad reputation and after viewing the film it's easy to see why so many people want to forget this turkey because it really is as bad as everyone says it is. The film runs just 66-minutes but that's about an hour too long and for the life of me I can't figure out why the wife went through all the trouble she does when she could have accomplished her goal with very little effort. I won't spoil what she's doing but once you figure it out you'll really want to talk to the screen and explain to her that she's wasting her time as well as our time. The screenplay never seems to realize what it wants to do or perhaps Allied Artist simply ran out of money and demanded certain scenes to be removed or shot for cheap. I'm not sure which it was but the screenplay pretty much has characters sitting or standing around talking about what they're going to do and it's just downright boring. There's even a scene where one man threatens to shoot another and he's going to give him a ten-count and then we have to sit there the entire time while he counts this down. The film's one saving grace is that we do get a couple nice performances. I thought Burke was fairly good in his role and at least gave the film a little boost in terms of entertainment. I also enjoyed Wengraf, although it's never really explained what he's doing in the jungle and how he got such a young wife to go out there with him. Hayes will always be remembered for ATTACK OF THE 50FT WOMAN but she's pretty good here as well. I thought she manages to play the femme fatale quite well as she was certainly believable in the part and I felt she really was "strong" enough to control these men with her powers. However, even these nice performances can't save the film and make it worth viewing. There were several voodoo films released in this era and the majority of them were pretty bad and this one here might be the worst.

JoeKarlosi Duller-than-a-butter-knife story of a frustrated but attractive woman (Allison Hayes) who's living in the jungle with her older doctor husband, whom she despises for reasons we're not told. She's got a knack for conjuring up voodoo spells and periodically uses them to try and kill her spouse. Then a trio of men arrive seeking treatment after one of them gets hurt, and the jungle queen becomes interested in one of them. Nothing really happens in this hour or so of tedium, and it's only worth a look to see a couple of scenes with the well-proportioned Ms. Hayes doing a ritual dance wearing very little clothing. * out of ****

jim riecken (youroldpaljim) This low rent dreary voodoo pic may be one of the dullest low budget horror/science fiction films from the fifties. The film is set in some nondescript jungle where a band of adventurers arrive at the remote jungle home of a "white doctor" and his native wife. The wife is always putting hexes on her doctor husband whom she hates, although the reason for her malice is never explained. The sets consists of a few cheap jungle sets, and the interior of the house. The native population is a strange polyglot mix of blacks, whites and what looks like Indonesians so often found in cheap jungle pictures. The only reason for watching this (other than if you are completest like me) is the presence of Allison Hayes, who looks gorgeous in a flower print sarong. THE DISEMBODIED is one of a handful of cheap Voodoo pictures made in the fifties. Most of these weren't any good, but some like ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU at least have a kind of campy, cockeyed charm that makes them appealing. THE DISEMBODIED is a film so dreary and uneventful that it is no wonder it is mostly forgotten today except by fans of the lovely Allison Hayes.