The Plague of the Zombies – 1966 | 90 mins | Horror | Colour

Plot Synopsis

Plague of the Zombies, was directed by a recent recruit to Hammer’s directorial ranks, John Gilling. Class antagonism, exploitative, bloodthirsty squires and small-town bigotry are all part of the mix in this Hammer horror.

Andre Morell is the Van Helsing-like surgeon who turns up in Cornwall to see why one of his former students, now a doctor, is in such a bad way. The locals are dying and nobody can work out why. The local squire (John Carson) is creating a band of zombies to work an old tin-mine, and the film’s heroine (Diane Clare) has to be rescued in a fiery climax from the role of human sacrifice in a voodoo ceremony. Most impressive are the images of the dead rising from the ground, their fingers clawing away the earth in a green-hued graveyard.