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Se*, celebrity, true crime, sleaze, vintage, trash, exploitation.. Drums of Terror - Voodoo In The Cinema (Bryan Senn, Midnight Marquee Press, 1998) Another top notch, entertaining and interesting publication from Midnight Marquee Press, who, after untold years of producing one of the all time best film publications — luckily for people like you and me — went into the production of decidedly interesting film books as well. In terms of research and writing style, Midnight Marquee Press publications usually tend to be miles above and beyond the typical Citadel Press publication, using a vocabulary and sentence structure that reveals that the authors might actually read books themselves. Regrettably, the cover prices are just as prohibitive as those of Citadel (at least for stingy book addicts like me). price that takes at least 3 hours of minimum wages to earn and a literary quality that indicates a likely college education on part of the author. Senn's starting point in his study of Voodoo films is that although Voodoo gets a lot of bad press, it is actually a serious monotheist religion similar in structure to Christianity, a legitimate religion born of genuine spirituality, which, because it is foreign and strange to the civilised western world, has an undeservedly bad rap and is seen by most (uninformed) people to be almost a form of demonic worship. Thus, most movies in which Voodoo is featured take the form of a funhouse mirror, distorting the facts into something completely unrealistic, bizarre, horrific. Senn then proceeds to present and dissect 39 films in depth, ranging from the Bela Lugosi vehicle WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) to Val Newton's I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943) to Hammer's THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES (1966) to the Blackpliotation clas*ic SUGAR HILL (1974) to Mickey Rourke's (for a long time) last good mainstream Hollywood film, ANGEL HEART (1987), discussing both the seriousness and truthfulness of the perspective film's presentation and use of the religion and how the film is or