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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Blistering performances.

I caught this unexpectedly on TV one afternoon and was surprised by how good it turned out to be. I was expecting it to be rather campy and melodramatic but it just wasn't. Rather, an intriguing story, taut direction, a foreboding musical score and some fine acting all held my attention to the very end. Andre Morell is particularly outstanding and Brook Williams is excellent too (especially in the decapitation-scene and dream-sequence), Diane Clare makes for a spirited, no-nonsense heroine, Jacqueline Pearce is suitably languid, and John Carson displays just the right amount of villainy as the diabolically scheming Squire. Visually, too, the film is very strong, with great camera-work and stunning use of location. Perhaps the single most notable aspect of this film is the dream-sequence which succeeds in being truly eerie and disturbing. What really makes it so, for me, is not just the zombies themselves but also the reaction of the dreamer: he doesn't exhibit the kind of terror that you usually find in such scenes, he just appears kind of puzzled and almost as if he's in a trance himself. And it's daylight, which makes the scene even more unsettling. It's interesting to consider the nature of the zombies featured here. On the one hand, these are just poor, subservient mine-workers (the film touches upon themes of capitalist/colonialist-oppression), which makes them somewhat akin to the original concept of the zombie as a mindless slave. But they are also very much like the shuffling decaying corpses of the Romero films (and it is noteworthy that Night of the Living Dead came out just a year or two later). Altogether The Plague of the Zombies appears to be rather unjustly overlooked in zombie film-annals, but Hammer's only excursion into the genre is one of its very best productions.

Let's cut to the chase. There is no longer any good reason to watch a movie like this. Back in the days of 3 channels and no cable you didn't have much choice so you watched drivel like this and it was relatively tolerable compared to "Queen For A Day". But today, hey, there's really no excuse.I realize there are Hammer enthusiasts out there but you shouldn't allow them to influence you, just like you don't allow Beanie Baby collectors to influence you. These people are uncivilized throwbacks and half-witted cave dwellers. Avoid them and you shall prosper.The one thing I sort of liked about the movie was how the girl became much more attractive after being transformed into a zombie. At least until they lopped her head off with a shovel. She didn't look so good anymore after that.

Let's not pretend that this film is some kind of masterpiece-it's Hammer and you know what your in for.Like most of these movies it takes an eternity to get going but when it does your just about glad you stuck with it.Acting is above average for the genre-Morel is excellent as the hero and plays the upper class gent with aplomb.Never did understand why the Squire wanted a crew of zombies in the first place.It seems he was only using them as cheap labour for the tin mine situated underneath his house-an extreme measure to go to.Suppose zombies don't need lunch breaks or ask for pay rises but by the look of them they make pretty crap workers for a tin mine.Not in the least scary-but good hammy Hammer fun.

Good film about a professor who answers to a calling made from a previous student. This student is now the doctor of a small town, and he finds it bizarre that people in the dozens keep dying with no sign of a criminal act. The Professor played by Sir Andre Morell starts digging up bodies only to find out that the graves are empty. What can this be? where are the bodies? And why did the professor's daughter see a presumably dead person up and walking in the dead of night? All seems to point towards a rich man living in a castle after he in recent years have returned from Haiti. The Professor soon realizes that he is a practitioner of black magic or Voodoo if you will. I must say that this film had a way more intricate plot than at first glance. A recommended film and one of the better Hammer productions i have up to this point had the pleasure of seeing.