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Capsule Reviews: February 2018
I usually don’t write capsule reviews on this site, but I’ve been away for too long while working on a different writing project (and now that I have a young son, writing time is more precious than ever). I’ve been … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, 70's, Amicus, Angela Pleasence, Charles Gray, Christopher Lee, David Prowse, David Warner, Donald Pleasence, Donald Sutherland, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, Hammer, horror, Jon Finch, Kate O'Mara, Martine Beswick, Michael Gough, Patrick Magee, Peter Cushing, Ralph Bates, Stephanie Beacham, Vampire, Veronica Carlson, voodoo
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The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
“Someone in this village is practicing witchcraft. That corpse wandering on the moors is an undead. A zombie.” Before George A. Romero came along, zombies were all about voodoo and Haiti, and Hammer Films understood the immortal truth that there … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Andre Morell, Hammer, horror, Jacqueline Pearce, voodoo, Zombie
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Revenge of the Zombies (1943)
Poor Dr. Von Altermann. He has at long last perfected a method for resurrecting the dead, setting him on the path to mustering an army of zombies for Hitler. Dreams of world domination by the Nazi walking dead seem irresistibly … Continue reading
