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Andy Brooks

Ibuye libizwe: Dead of Night

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

Lwa nayo
Kuvele kuqala
1974
Released 1974
Umsebenzi womthombo
Deathdream (1974)
Bob Clark
Yenziwe ku-
I-USA, I-Canada
Okuyibangela
Akuchazwanga
A soldier shot dead in Vietnam comes home anyway; the film does not explain how.
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Okushiwo yimithombo

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

Imithombo

  1. Deathdream - Wikipedia

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