EDITOR’S NOTE: The Disembodied was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, January 26, 1964 at 111:10 p.m., Saturday, March 27, 1965 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, July 16, 1966 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, December 30, 1967 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, August 16, 1969 at 1:00 a.m.

Tom Maxwell (Paul Burke) is a man in search of excitement, which brings him to a tropical island where he meets Dr. Carl Mertz (John Wengraf) and his native wife Tonda (Allison Hayes). Tom’s friend Joe (Robert Christopher) is mauled by a lion and it’s hoped that the doctor can save him, but voodoo is what does it, taking the soul of servant Suba (Dean Fredericks) and putting him into the white man’s body. Only his wife Mara (Eugenia Paul) knows the truth and Tom’s too busy lusting after Tonda to know the difference.

She gets tired of trying to get Tom to kill the doctor and goes full voodoo on him, hanging dolls and stabbing them, dancing around the fire at night. She can get any man she wants and she knows it. Well, Allison Hayes is definitely the right actress to play her, after roles in The Undead, The Unearthly and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.

Director Walter Grauman mostly worked in TV, directing hundreds of episodes of episodic dramas, as well as TV movies like Daughter of the Mind, Crowhaven Farm and The Old Man Who Cried Wolf. This was written by Jack Townley and played double features with From Hell It Came.

It’s a little past an hour long, most of the people who should be black are white and it’s shot on a soundstage instead of in the jungle. That said, I have a weakness for movies like this.