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The Plague of the Zombies (1966) 6.6
Young workers are dying because of a mysterious epidemic in a little village in Cornwall. Doctor Thompson is helpless and asks professor James Forbes for help. The professor and his ... See full summary » Director:John GillingWriter:Peter Bryan |
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Sir James Forbes
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Diane Clare | ... |
Sylvia Forbes
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Dr. Peter Tompson
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Alice Mary Tompson
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John Carson | ... |
Squire Clive Hamilton
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Alexander Davion | ... |
Denver
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Sergeant Jack Swift
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Tom Martinus
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Dennis Chinnery | ... |
Constable Christian
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Roy Royston | ... |
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John Martinus
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Tim Condren | ... |
A young blood
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Bernard Egan | ... |
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Norman Mann | ... |
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Young workers are dying because of a mysterious epidemic in a little village in Cornwall. Doctor Thompson is helpless and asks professor James Forbes for help. The professor and his daughter Sylvia travel to Thomson. Terrible things happen soon, beyond imagination or reality. Dead people are seen near an old, unused mine. Late people seem to live suddenly. Professor Forbes presumes that black magic is involved and someone has extraordinary power. He doesn't know how close he is: the dead become alive because of a magic voodoo-ritual, and so they must serve their master as mindless zombies... Written by Matthias Luehr <mluehr@htwm.de>
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12 January 1966 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Originally shown (in London) in a double billing with Dracula: Prince of Darkness. See more »Goofs
Early on in the film, a modern car is seen driving by. See more »Quotes
Sir James Forbes: I, I find all kinds of witchcraft slightly nauseating and this I find absolutely disgusting.See more »
John Gilling directs with style and flair in one of his minor masterpieces The Plague of the Zombies. Hammer only made one foray into the zombie sub-genre with this film about a doctor and his daughter paying a visit to a former medical student who has written for help. Apparently in his Cornish village, men and women are dying without explanation and are showing symptoms the doctor cannot diagnose with any real degree of certainty. Of course they soon discover that the bodies are no longer in their caskets and that many of them have been seen AFTER they have died. Gilling effectively films the sequences of action that take place in typical Hammer style with an emphasis on suspense. Although lacking the star power usually attributed to a Hammer production, this film is right up there in terms of great Hammer films. The only "star" is Andre Morrell(you may remember him as Watson in Hammer's The Hound of the Baskervilles). Morrell is quite good and I think he should have been utilized more by the studio than he was. The rest of the cast does a very credible job as well. Gilling's camera is the real treat though as he really shoots several scenes quite effectively. His dream sequence with the zombies tearing the earth from their way out into the open is a classic. Now I know some people will make the inevitable comparison to this and Night of the Living Dead(a film that came AFTER this one). That is understandable using NOTLD as the barometer of all zombie films; however, let me just point out again that this film came before that one and may have aided Romero in some way. Granted there are not a slew of similarities, but Romero may have gleaned something for this production as it is apparent he did from The last Man on Earth and Carnival of Souls. I too wish Hammer had done more with zombie films. they would have given that sub-genre a bit more class than is sometimes associated with it.