The bootleg version of "The Dead don't Talk" I watched starts with a written message about how the original print of the film was considered lost in a fire shortly after its release in the early 70s, but how a copy was nevertheless recovered nearly forty years later. Usually, this is how genuine cult movies are born, but this Turkish exploitation flick nevertheless remained very obscure and totally unknown. And righteously so, I'm forced to add. It certainly wouldn't have been a great loss for humanity if "The Dead don't Talk" had never been found...
The Turkish horror & exploitation industry is one of the weirdest of the world. They normally just make minimal efforts and blatantly imitate famous Hollywood blockbusters, like "Turkish Rambo", "Turkish Mad Max", or even "Turkish E. T.". The most positive thing I can write about "The Dead don't Talk" is that it's at least slightly more original. Here, writer/director Yavuz Yalinkiliç is a little bit more creative but just as inept. The film obviously aims to attempt to rip off the contemporary Italian and British (mostly Hammer) gothic horror movies but doesn't have a clue how. It's stuffed with dark manors, horse carriages, foggy landscapes, sinister butlers, and thunderstorms. There's also a villainous type of count (vampire?) roaming around who laughs constantly and hysterically over-the-top. What's missing, though, is a plot. Who are these people? Why do they all go to the sinister house? Why don't they leave? Why is everybody nagging about the 15th of the month?
The Turkish horror & exploitation industry is one of the weirdest of the world. They normally just make minimal efforts and blatantly imitate famous Hollywood blockbusters, like "Turkish Rambo", "Turkish Mad Max", or even "Turkish E. T.". The most positive thing I can write about "The Dead don't Talk" is that it's at least slightly more original. Here, writer/director Yavuz Yalinkiliç is a little bit more creative but just as inept. The film obviously aims to attempt to rip off the contemporary Italian and British (mostly Hammer) gothic horror movies but doesn't have a clue how. It's stuffed with dark manors, horse carriages, foggy landscapes, sinister butlers, and thunderstorms. There's also a villainous type of count (vampire?) roaming around who laughs constantly and hysterically over-the-top. What's missing, though, is a plot. Who are these people? Why do they all go to the sinister house? Why don't they leave? Why is everybody nagging about the 15th of the month?
