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Illustration of Cornish zombies of The Plague of the Zombies
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Cornish zombies of The Plague of the Zombies

IfilimuAbangafiUbuthakathi1900 kuya ku-1967

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

Lwa nayo
Kuvele kuqala
1966
Released 1966
Umsebenzi womthombo
The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
John Gilling (Hammer)
Yenziwe ku-
I-United Kingdom
Okuyibangela
Ubuthakathi
A Cornish squire practises voodoo, using a vial of each victim's blood in his rituals.
Indlela oba ngayo yinye
A voodoo ceremony turns the victim into one of the walking dead.
Izindawo ezibuthaka
  • fire
  • burning the squire's voodoo figures
amanothi ensimini

Okushiwo yimithombo

1

The squire raises dead villagers to work his tin mine1

2

Burning the small ritual figures sets the zombies themselves alight1

3

Credited with influencing Night of the Living Dead1

4

Shot back to back with The Reptile on the same Cornish village set built by Bernard Robinson1

5

It turned a profit, earning about 2.34 million dollars in rentals1

Imithombo

  1. The Plague of the Zombies - Wikipedia

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