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Andy Brooks

Also called: Dead of Night
FilmUndead1968 to 1999

Andy is a soldier shot in Vietnam who nevertheless comes home, as what the film's page describes as an undead, vampiric creature. He is decaying and kills for blood to slow it. Deathdream is an early example of the walking dead used for commentary on the Vietnam War.1

Battle it
First appeared
1974
Released 1974
Source work
Deathdream (1974)
Bob Clark
Made in
USA, Canada
What causes it
Never explained
A soldier shot dead in Vietnam comes home anyway; the film does not explain how.

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today1974

Released 1974

field notes

What the sources say

1

He injects himself with victims' blood to revive his decaying body1

2

The film was inspired by W. W. Jacobs's The Monkey's Paw1

3

Tom Savini did the makeup; much of his elaborate decay work was cut in editing1

4

A reviewer read the film as an allegory of the Vietnam War1

5

First released as Dead of Night1

Sources

  1. Deathdream - Wikipedia

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