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Cornish zombies of The Plague of the Zombies
Hammer's zombie film moves voodoo to a Cornish village, where the local squire turns people into the walking dead to work his tin mine. Historians credit it with influencing Night of the Living Dead two years later. Radio Times called it director John Gilling's best work.1
Primeira aparición
1966
Released 1966Obra de orixe
The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
John Gilling (Hammer)Feito en
Reino Unido
Que o causa
Bruxaría
A Cornish squire practises voodoo, using a vial of each victim's blood in his rituals.Como te convertes nun
A voodoo ceremony turns the victim into one of the walking dead.
Puntos débiles
- fire
- burning the squire's voodoo figures
Cando apareceu por primeira vez?
Released 1966
notas de campo
O que din as fontes
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The squire raises dead villagers to work his tin mine1
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Burning the small ritual figures sets the zombies themselves alight1
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Credited with influencing Night of the Living Dead1
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Shot back to back with The Reptile on the same Cornish village set built by Bernard Robinson1
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It turned a profit, earning about 2.34 million dollars in rentals1
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