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![]() Revenge of the Zombies (1943) Dir. Steve Sekely (István Székely) ITB Shock Theatre #101 I suspect somebody at Monogram Studios did a spit-take when they saw that RKO had a hit with I Walked with a Zombie and ordered a follow-up to their own King of the Zombies but to be frank, I picture the Monogram Board of Directors doing spit-takes a lot. This is not a good movie, by the way, so we'll try and give you a good review. Evil Dr. John Carradine is experimenting in some tropical location with turning people into zombies, who can then become an invincible army for his home country, Nazi Germany. When he turns his beautiful wife, Veda Ann Borg (and WHAT she ever saw in HIM, we'll NEVER know) into a zombie, her brother, Robert Lowery, comes to investigate with a private detective. Gale Storm is Dr. Carradine's faithful secretary, Bob Steele is a sheriff or a Nazi or a Federal Marshal depending on whom he's talking to, and Mantan Moreland is "Funny Colored Guy who Acts Scared and Does Silly Stuff and Saves the Movie the Best he Can." Unlike most zombie movies, though, this introduces the concept that the zombies still retain a little bit of the spark of life; they like to howl "Where am I?!?!?" a lot. They also are secretly plotting against Dr. Carradine, but if it's because he's a Nazi, a necromancer, or a ham actor, they don't say. Million-dollar Dialog: Zombie: "WHERE AM I?!?!?" Mantan: "I don't know where YOU at, but thirty seconds from now I'm gonna be eleven miles away from heah!" In between this high hilarity and heart-pounding horror, we get Mr. Lowery tenderly romancing Miss Storm. Million-dollar Romancing Dialog: Bob to Gale: "Are you being loyal or dumb?" There's also a running gag with a corpse that keeps showing up when and where Mantan least expects it, but frankly, King of the Zombies was way better than this. I kind of blame director Sekely, although he'd go on to do Day of the Triffids, so there IS that. I have this on a British double-feature DVD with AIP's Voodoo Woman, oddly enough. |
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