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Post by GL on Sept 30, 2010 10:36:51 GMT -5
 A series of strange disappearances in a remote village lead a professor to the area, where he finds the brutish village headmaster using voodoo rites to reanimate the dead and use them as his personal slaves, forcing them to race to stop the madman before he can accomplish any more misdeeds. What did everyone think of this one? |
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Post by GL on Sept 30, 2010 10:37:17 GMT -5
On TV in October on the 8th at 5:00 on Turner Classic Movies.
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Post by GL on Oct 15, 2010 9:47:24 GMT -5
One of my favorite non-Dracula Hammer efforts, this here earns a 5. Absolutely enjoyable all around, with a lot to like about it. From a spectacular Gothic village, complete with the perpetual fog bank around them, the creepy locations that are perfect for this sort of film, a group of fine-looking zombies and a lot of voodoo-related rituals and such make for a rousing time, including the old Hammer standard of burning-the-house-down finale that always works well in these films. Not really all that many flaws to be found.
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Post by abraxas on Oct 15, 2010 12:06:53 GMT -5
The hammer films were heavily inspired by the Cormen/Price Edger Allen Poe films, the traditional house burning down at the climax of the film was a staple of Cormen films, although he used the same two shots in just about every film, being the frugal director that he was.
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Post by The Walking Dude on Oct 15, 2010 15:46:31 GMT -5
Yeah I'm a big fan of this one too.I believe it was the first ever film to show zombies crawling out of their grave,and one of the last to use 'true' zombies - those re-animated by voodoo, before Romero unleashed his ghouls onto an unsuspecting world,therefor changing the landscape forever.
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Post by GL on Oct 18, 2010 9:51:19 GMT -5
The hammer films were heavily inspired by the Cormen/Price Edger Allen Poe films, the traditional house burning down at the climax of the film was a staple of Cormen films, although he used the same two shots in just about every film, being the frugal director that he was. The Curse of Frankenstein was 1957, The House of Usher was 1960; I think it was the other way around as you can't inspire something that happened after you had already done it. Maybe by this time it was third generation inspiration: imitating the Poe films which were inspired by your earlier works, but still, I think on a timeline basis it was Hammer that came first. Yeah I'm a big fan of this one too.I believe it was the first ever film to show zombies crawling out of their grave,and one of the last to use 'true' zombies - those re-animated by voodoo, before Romero unleashed his ghouls onto an unsuspecting world,therefor changing the landscape forever. I haven't seen it in ages, but I could've sworn that Revenge of the Zombies with John Carradine in the early 40s also had that. There was even a cheapie in the 50s called Zombies of Mora Tau that I could've sworn had one shot like that, as it's about zombies guarding a sunken treasure and the plotline would allow that to happen, but I wouldn't call any of those good films. That may go to this one, but I'll have to check those other two as I thought those had similar scenes as well. |
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