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A waste of 90 minutes of my life

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Blistering performances.

A fairly typical Paul Naschy vehicle, with a muddled plot. In my opinion this is an average genre film for Naschy, although those who aren't fans of the Spanish horror stalwart's work may want to knock a star off the rating here because I'm inclined to enjoy his films however silly they may be. VENGEANCE OF THE ZOMBIES is a mixed bag, dragged down by Leon Klimovsky's unusually bland "point the camera and shoot" style of direction, enlivened by a few arty touches like having the zombies move in slow-motion and the like. As with THE MUMMY'S REVENGE, this is a film which sees Naschy merely going through the motions rather than setting a trend with SHADOW OF THE WEREWOLF.Naschy plays cult leader Harry Krishna, a long-haired muscular dude who sits around meditating in a spooky old mansion while his Indian house servant looks on sinisterly. The film is set in London and England incidentally, although it doesn't look like it for a second, which gives ample opportunity for Klimovsky to throw in some stock footage of red London buses and the like. Amusingly, there's also a bad soundtrack which mixes jazz with bizarre singing which is good for a laugh. Meanwhile, the female lead (the actress going only by the singular name of "Romy"), looking for a quiet retreat, goes to live in Naschy's house and ends up falling in love with the weird one. She also has a macabre dream sequence of a black mass taking place in the basement of the house, which gives the ever-gleeful Naschy the opportunity to dress up as a horned demon.Meanwhile, to keep the plot spicy, a series of giallo-like gore murders are being committed in London by a mysterious figure who goes through a succession of joke-shop fright masks. Could it be Naschy? I won't say, but the plot is about the use of the power of voodoo to bring the dead back to life and hypnosis into helping people carry out diabolical plans. Which leads me to the zombies - they certainly manage to make the film atmospheric, but as screen scaries they're a bit of a disappointment, being just women in white makeup with no other sign that they're dead.Klimovsky inserts liberal scenes of sex and violence (axes go into heads, numerous throats are slit graphically) to try and keep the viewer's interest going but all in all it's a bit of a muddled film which didn't exactly fill me with joy, although like most Spanish Gothic films it's more than watchable. My favourite moment comes when the heroine (not exactly memorable, as heroines go) goes to see an old woman whose head then proceeds to slowly fall off to one side, blood spurting out. Unfortunately, the genuinely creepy moments - like a shot of a dead body hanging amid the carcasses of slaughtered livestock in a freezer - are abandoned in favour of more predictable in-your-face shocks and fright scenes.

The Best print of this film is the video release from Long Gone All Seasons Entertainment which clocks in around 90 minutes, making it the longest version available w/ fantastic print quality. Check ebay, you might find one, although, now that EVERYONE know's this is the version to have, plan on paying the price. But, again, well worth it!Seems that there are so many DVD companies jumping on the band wagon and releasing horrible TV prints or cut prints of older films. Do you homework people before you spend your hard earned money of junk.P/s, All Season Entertainment released a number of rare films on VHS (video) in large cardcoard boxes which collectors pay good money for so refine your searches in google search or ebay search and I'm sure you will come up with something.

I know one reviewer of this film that had the audacity to compare director León Klimovsky to Tarantino. Give me a break. The film jumped all over the place and switched scenes with no apparent rhyme or reason. One minute you see a love scene begin and a second later someone is running their bicycle into a car.This mash-up of Hindu mysticism, voodoo and zombies never had any coherent plot.It did have great zombie makeup. They looked dead! It also had Mirta Miller. A voluptuous veteran of countless Euro-horror films, she again appeared scantily clad with her breasts heaving as she fell into the clutches of the zombies for their ritual.

Vengeance of the Zombies is a head on collision of seven different horror genres. A hodge podge of gore, nudity, black gloved killers, voodoo, Satanism, surrealism , and unintentional camp. Naschy plays a dual role as the good Indian Guru Krishna,and his evil twisted and deformed voodoo doll making, Satan worshiping , masked killer of a brother. Obviously the plot is muddled. It reminds me of the old poverty row horror films but filtered through the distorted mind of Jess Franco. The most Franco like aspect of the film however is the jazzy score, which remarkably made the film a lot more tolerable for me. Naschy tosses in a few homages here, he's doing Blood and Black Lace in one scene, Curse of the Crimson Altar in another, things that are fun to spot. If you are in search for a good "bad" horror film with everything but the kitchen sink tossed in then you won't do much better than this.