The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

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Average Rating: 5.2/10
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1966 Wide

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A wonderfully atmospheric outing from Hammer Films, who diverged from their often successful variations on Universal's classic monsters into the world of zombies, a genre which had yet to receive its infusion of terrifying new blood with the 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead. The plot, which owes a debt to the Bela Lugosi chiller White Zombie, involves a mad Cornish squire, who solves an annoying labor crisis in his tin mines by turning local villagers into voodoo-controlled zombies. Dr.

Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.

Horror, Art House & International, Classics

Directed By: John Gilling

Written By: Peter Bryan

In Theaters: Jan 1, 1966 Wide

On DVD: Nov 2, 1999

Cast

Andr� Morell
Sir James Forbes
Diane Clare
Sylvia Forbes
John Carson
Clive Hamilton
Brook Williams
Dr. Peter Thompson
Alexander Davion
Denver
Jacqueline Pearce
Alice Thompson
Michael Ripper
Sgt. Swift
Dennis Chinnery
PC Christian
Ben Aris
John Martinus
Louis Mahoney
Servant
Jerry Verno
Landlord
Tim Condren
Roy Royston
Vicar
Marcus Hammond

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Lacks action.

October 10, 2010 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

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Unfolds as a series of intriguing contrasts: between life and death, male and female, tradition and modernity, science and voodoo.

October 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Projection Booth

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Rob Humanick

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Plague of the Zombies offers up the voodoo brand as opposed the rotten diseased brand of zombies. Not my preference, but combine some creepy zombies with that trademarked Hammer gothic atmosphere and you're in for a good time. The zombies are sporadic but they're pretty nasty when they actually do show. Plague of the

July 30, 2010

Michael Gildea

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Up until the late 60's, zombies were almost exclusively depicted as the brainwashed, lumbering slaves of evil voodoo masters, I believe. They are as such here but also shown as foul, cadaverous creatures risen from freshly dug graves. Old school spooky atmosphere with voodoo drums thrown in only the way Hammer

March 30, 2008