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The Plague of the Zombies |
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The Plague of the Zombies - 1966 | 90 mins | Horror | ColourThe Production TeamDirector: John Gilling. Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys. Script: Peter Bryan. Cinematography: Arthur Grant. Editing: Chris Barnes. Art Direction: Don Mingaye. Production Design: Bernard Robinson. Makeup Department: Roy Ashton and Frieda Steiger. Sound Department: Roy Baker and Ken Rawkins. Music: James Bernard. |
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The CastAndré Morell - Sir James Forbes Diane Clare - Sylvia Forbes Brook Williams - Dr. Peter Tompson Jacqueline Pearce - Alice Tompson John Carson Squire - Clive Hamilton Alexander Davion - Denver Michael Ripper - Sergeant Swift |
Plot SynopsisPlague 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. |
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