![]() ![]() The only "star" is Andre Morrell(you may remember him as Watson in Hammer's The Hound of the Baskervilles). Although lacking the star power usually attributed to a Hammer production, this film is right up there in terms of great Hammer films. Gilling effectively films the sequences of action that take place in typical Hammer style with an emphasis on suspense. 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. 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. 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. John Gilling directs with style and flair in one of his minor masterpieces The Plague of the Zombies. ![]()
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