Movies With Just Michael: The Devil's Hand

Last night I reviewed another movie from Walmart's Gorehouse Greats collection, the 1962 film, The Devil's Hand. This will probably be shorter than yesterday's since I do not have to go off on a tangent about what constitutes a good movie so let's get started.
First off, the music playing over the opening credits sounded like it belonged in a surfing compilation video (and I should know, my physics teacher used to play them after tests). This just seemed a bit weird to me and it's never really explained, except that the same music is later playing in one of the main characters apartments.
The opening scene is a park where Donna (I wrote down everyone's name this time) is waiting for her boyfriend, Rick Turner, who arrives and nonchalantly reveals that he has lost his job, though I don't recall him saying why. They then exposition it up for a bit, talking about their relationship, before Rick tells Donna abotu a recurring dream he's been having of a beautiful woman dancing over a background of clouds. They actually show this and I'd just like to point out that despite being made a year earlier than Madmen of Mandoras, the special effects are much better. They then go for a walk into town where they come across a doll shop with a doll that looks just like the woman from Rick's dream in the window. They go inside and the shady dollshop owner informs them that Rick is the one who ordered and paid for the doll, despite Rick's denial of this. They also see a doll of Donna that was supposedly ordered by someone else. After a arguing for a little while, the couple leaves and once they are gone the doll shop owner sticks a pin in Donna's doll, causing her extreme pain in a stereotypical voodoo type fashion. That night Rick has another dream about the woman who tells Rick to find her and bring the doll from the doll shop. He does this and apparently either falls under some sort of trance or is a terrible boyfriend because he starts hardcore making out with her. The mysterious woman is named Bianca Minot, and is a member of a cult that worships... Gamba The Devil God of Evil. That is probably the stupidest name for a diety I have ever heard. She takes Rick to a meeting of the cult, attended by several other couples and a pair of out-of-place looking fat guys (who will become important later). There is also a skinny black guy playing these weird bongoes, one of my favorite characters, by the way. The drummer guy plays one of the most epic bongo drum soloes I have ever heard to announce the arrival of the cult's leader, the man who owns the doll shop. He then announces that Gamba requires a sacrifice and a woman is brought in. The sacrificial device is basically a Russian Roulette chandelier with swords. It's pretty ridiculous. The chandelier spins and the swords descend but luckily the sheath that hit the woman did nto have a sword in it and she survives. We then see one of the fat guys take a picture with a lapel camera. Before we continue I'd just like to bring up the awesome fact that whenever anyone said the word "Gamba", everyone in the cult except the main characters said "Gamba!" and raised their hands in the air. I found this hilarious. After the meeting we see that Rick has begun living a life of luxury as Bianca uses her magic voodoo powers to make him extremely good at picking horses and stocks I guess. Meanwhile, Donna is still in the hospital. We then find out that Rick is not he first man Bianca has ensnared and she is actually with that creepy doll owner guy/high priest. Their plan is to make Rick forget all about Donna so that... um... profit? Their plan is never really explained in detail, but I trust they know what they are doing. However, Rick does eventually visit Donna, if only to tell her that he is leaving her for reasons he cannot tell her. He then breaks into the doll shop and takes the pin out of Donna's doll. Doll shop guy shows up and, instead of simply hiding until he goes away, Rick decides to go down into the cult meeting place, light a torch, andfucka round for a few minutes. This leads the High Priest to find the fat guy's notes to his editor (that he was apparently carrying with him to the meetings) and at the next meeting he reveals that their is a traitor in their midst, which Rick believes to be himself. Once everyone leaves, in what is my favorite scene in the movie, the High Priest takes the fat guy's doll, and shoves a pin through his head, causing him to crash his car in a manner I found extremely funny. He then puts the doll in a fire and the entire accident scene bursts into flames. At the next meeting, he reveals that the traitor has been taken care of and afterwards he takes out the other fat guy, the traitor's sponsor. I think Gamba just hates fatties. Later Bianca and the High Priest find out that Donna has been cured thansk to their spy at the hospital and realise Rick took out the needle. Rick picks Donna up from the hospital and tells her to leave town but, since this is a movie, she gets captures anyway. In order to test his loyalty, Rick is forced to spin the Russian Roulette sacrifice machine as it hovers over Donna. He then realizes that the outcome is fixed and enters into an extremely comical fistfight with the high priest that ends in the building burning down and the tragic immolation of Kickass Drummer Guy. Rick and Donna then escape the burning buildign and drive off to live happily ever after. Overall, I think this was a better movie than the one I watched the night before, but, perhaps because of this, I did not find it as entertaining. So I am going to give it a 3 out of 5 for both entertainment and technical merit.