Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
1936 · Feature film · 65 min · dir. Victor Halperin
WEIRDEST LOVE STORY IN 2000 YEARS!
- Horror
Synopsis
The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. An evil count has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed into walking zombies and uses these unholy powers to create a race of slave laborers. An expedition is sent to the ruins of Angkor Wat, in hopes of ending the count's activities once and for all. Unfortunately, one of the members of the expedition has his own agenda.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Victor Halperin
- Writer
- Victor Halperin
- Cinematography
- Arthur Martinelli
- Studio
- Victor & Edward Halperin Productions
- Released
- 1936-06-04
- Running time
- 65 minutes
Cast & crew
- Victor Halperin Director
Dean Jagger- Dorothy Stone
Roy D'Arcy- Robert Noland
George Cleveland
E. Alyn Warren
Carl Stockdale- William Crowell
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Revolting · picfixer · 2010-02-05
You know all about movies that are so bad they're good. Well, this "melodrama" is so awful it's fascinating. You'll never run across a worse screenplay with dialog that's simultaneously pompous and incredibly juvenile. You'll never encounter worse acting from an entire cast, and that includes the casts of Ed Wood's infamous disasters. What's amazing is Dean Jagger, who is truly awful (I mean really, really bad), later emerged as one of Hollywood's most respected actors. There is camp by the truck load in dramatic love scenes that will give you the giggles, and actors walking in place against…
★ · very slow and boring · katpooh9 · 2009-03-02
Without even putting it on pause, I checked my email, and Facebook and Plaxo, then I checked the snailmail, then I received a package from FedEx that contained a bottle of Torani sugar-free raspberry syrup. I then sat back down to the movie, and it was still boring. There are much better zombie movies out there.
★ · Does anyone know who went with the film crew to Cambodia? · mycroft61 · 2011-08-11
In Gary Rhode's book "White Zombie...anatomy of a film" he mentions that victor sent a film crew to Cambodia for background shots. Anyone know who all went?
