Which zombie are you?
Zombie battle
Outrun them
Card collection
Language: English
Feed the horde (tip jar)
Zombies of Revolt of the Zombies
Victor Halperin's follow-up to White Zombie relocates the zombie to Indochina, where a secret found at Angkor lets one man command others as will-less soldiers and servants. It is among the earliest zombie films and is remembered mostly for the lawsuit around it. Zombie historian Peter Dendle judged it an uninvolving successor to the 1932 film.1
When did it first appear?
1936Released 1936
What the sources say
Conceived as a loose sequel to White Zombie by the same director1
A court barred the makers from promoting it as a White Zombie sequel and awarded 11,500 dollars against them1
Bela Lugosi's eyes, lifted from White Zombie, appear whenever the power is used, though he is uncredited1
The setting moves the zombie from Haiti to Cambodia and the First World War1
The film is in the public domain1
Sources
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Same era: 1900 to 1967
Legendre's zombiesWhite Zombie (1932)
The resurrected dead of Plan 9Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
CarrefourI Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Cornish zombies of The Plague of the ZombiesThe Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Plague victims of The Last Man on EarthThe Last Man on Earth (1964)
Corpses of Invisible InvadersInvisible Invaders (1959)