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Dr. Sangre's zombies

FilmOtherSorcery1900 to 1967

A low-budget comedy-thriller from Monogram in which a doctor controls zombies through voodoo. The zombies are incidental to the plot, as one historian noted, and are released when their master dies. The film earned an Academy Award nomination for its score.1

Battle it
First appeared
1941
Released 1941
Source work
King of the Zombies (1941)
Jean Yarbrough
Made in
USA
What causes it
Sorcery
A doctor controls zombies through voodoo.
Weak spots
  • death of the controller releases them
field notes

What the sources say

1

When the doctor dies, every zombie is released from his spell1

2

Made by Monogram to cash in on The Ghost Breakers1

3

Bela Lugosi was announced for the villain, then Peter Lorre was approached; Henry Victor got the part1

4

Its score was nominated for an Academy Award1

5

Followed by Revenge of the Zombies (1943), with Mantan Moreland returning1

Sources

  1. King of the Zombies - Wikipedia

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