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The infected of The Grapes of Death

Also called: Les raisins de la mort, Pesticide
FilmInfected, still aliveScience gone wrong1968 to 1999

Jean Rollin's film traps a woman in a French village where a pesticide has turned the residents into violent, ulcerated madmen. The victims are alive, and at least one stays aware. The film's page describes them variously as zombies, undead and infected.1

Battle it
First appeared
1978
Released 1978
Source work
The Grapes of Death (1978)
Jean Rollin
Made in
France
What causes it
Science gone wrong
A new pesticide used on a vineyard contaminates the wine.
How you become one
Exposure to the pesticide through the contaminated wine.
Intelligence
Some intelligence
Weak spots
  • gunshot
  • decapitation

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today1978

Released 1978

field notes

What the sources say

1

Victims develop ulcers on the face and body that ooze blood, and turn murderously insane1

2

The inventor of the pesticide stays lucid while infected1

3

Also known as Pesticide1

4

The outbreak spreads because the vineyard owner employed immigrants illegally and could not go to the police1

Sources

  1. The Grapes of Death - Wikipedia

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