July 19, 2009
The most dignified Zombie film of all time and one of Hammer's best works.
Alexander Davion, André Morell, Brook Williams
Anticipating Night of the Living Dead by a couple of years, the John Gilling-directed Plague of the Zombies gives the gothic treatment to the stumbling undead. André Morell plays ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 2, 1999
Stats: 85 reviews
Flixster Reviews (85)
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July 12, 2009Prototypical Hammer fare. Equal parts goth, gore, camp and schtick. A milestone in the evolution of the 'zombie flick', fans of Hammer Studios will love it, most others won't.
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March 24, 2009Severely underrated and woefully underwatched, "Plague of the Zombies" ranks near the top among Hammer's best.
A lot has been made about its influences on Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", but the hallucinatory sequence in the graveyard may very well have given birth to Lucio...( read more) -
November 22, 2008When a medical professor gets a letter from a old student being told about weird deaths inside a small english town he decided to pack up and go there himself to investigate what he finds can not be explained with normal medicine seems the dead are riseing and someone in the town...( read more)
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January 6, 2009A really great Hammer offering, which is far better than the name implies! (The name is almost comic!) It's not an all-out gorefest, as you may expect based on more modern zombie pictures, but has a relatively complex (for the genre and time) story with a lot of suspense. Fran...( read more)
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October 21, 2008If you like your zombies mining tin, this movie's for you...if not, skip it or you will be disappointed.
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October 6, 2008not the best zombie film ever but incorporating elements of voodoo and suspicion this film is one to sit bk and amuse some time with.
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November 4, 2007The use of the zombies to represent the poor working class really sold me on this movie. The acting was good and the concept was excellent considering it was made 40 years ago.
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