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VHS : Plague of the Zombies (Ws Spec)In association with Amazon.comstarring: André Morell, Diane Clare, Brook Williams, Jacqueline Pearce, John Carson directed by: John Gilling  List Price: $14.98 Price: $4.47 You Save: $10.51 (70%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9781564427113 Format: Color, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 1564427110 Label: Starz / Anchor Bay Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay Release Date: September 10, 1997 Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay Theatrical Release Date: January 12, 1966 Sales Rank: 23011 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Anticipating Night of the Living Dead by a couple of years, the John Gilling-directed Plague of the Zombies gives the gothic treatment to the stumbling undead. André Morell plays an unassuming medical professor called by a former student, village doctor Peter Tompson (Brook Williams), to investigate a mysterious plague in a small Cornish village. They uncover an unholy plot by the devilishly decadent local Squire (John Carson), who has been using black magic to create an army of laborers to work his failing tin mine and has now infected William's sickly young wife. Gilling sets a spooky atmosphere, a fog-drenched village where the inhabitants live as if under a cloud of doom, dominated by the arrogant squire, who bullies his way about with his gang of cruel, aristocratic thugs. The film's highlight is the eerie introduction of the zombies, clawing their way up through the earth and emerging as lumbering, death-masked ghouls. The film has been remastered from the original 35mm negatives in the Hammer vaults, and letterboxed to its original aspect ratio. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Corrupt leadership and the decay of the soul*HAMMER pounds the the zombie nail* The British film industry was churning out horror in the 60's in rabid fashion. After several remakes of old Universal films, they found some fresh deadmeat to serve up--the voodoo zombie sub-genre. This has obvious parallels with WHITE ZOMBIE, but PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES shambles alone in its spine-tingling impact. Doctors are baffled as village people keep falling victim to a mysterious illness. It is eventually discovered that their fate ... Read More Rating: - Zombies Hammer-styleFete of Death When I ordered this movie a few days ago, I didn't realize I had already seen it. The title "Plague of the Zombies" didn't ring any bells. After the fox hunters kidnaped Andre Morell's daughter, though, I remembered that I had already seen it. This is an excellent Hammer horror movie that few people have ever heard of. I don't know why this movie gets so little exposure. It's right up there with the best of Hammer's horror flicks. It has a great gothic ambience, ... Read More Rating: - A pleasant little diversionIf you want special effects and gore, this isn't the movie for you. However, despite the lack of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, A Plague of Zombies is a classic Hammer Horror film. So if you are in the mood for a period horror film (Victorian era England) that doesn't involve Vampires, Werewolves, or Frankenstein's monster, this movie has a lot to offer. (Spoilers Follow) In a nutshell, a well respected older doctor is called away from London to help one of his former students. ... Read More Rating: - Zombie Invasion in Cornwall....Well 5 or 6 Zombies!"Plague of the Zombies" is one of Hammer's more curious and therefore interesting productions of the 1960's. The 1960's saw Hammer diversify their film forms and in addition to their colour gothic horrors, they also produced monochrome psychological thrillers in the mould of Hitchcock such as "Maniac" and a range of films for the summer holidays to be enjoyed by children such as "Captain Clegg" and "The Devil Ship Pirates" in many ways "Plague of the Zombies" also steps out of the normal gothic horror ... Read More Rating: - Solid Hammer House Movie Firstly, the movie doesn't involve a plague of zombies at all, rather a modest collection of them being used as illegal workers underground in a tin mine - remember "101 uses for a dead cat"? Despite this, all the usual Hammer type features are here: the superstitious villagers blind to what is happening under their noses, the outsider running his own investigation by digging up bodies in the middle of the night, cigars and brandy around the fire, the deranged squire who hides the evil secret in his castle ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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