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Cornish zombies of The Plague of the Zombies
Hammer's zombie film moves voodoo to a Cornish village, where the local squire turns people into the walking dead to work his tin mine. Historians credit it with influencing Night of the Living Dead two years later. Radio Times called it director John Gilling's best work.1
First appeared
1966
Released 1966Source work
The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
John Gilling (Hammer)Made in
United Kingdom
What causes it
Sorcery
A Cornish squire practises voodoo, using a vial of each victim's blood in his rituals.How you become one
A voodoo ceremony turns the victim into one of the walking dead.
Weak spots
- fire
- burning the squire's voodoo figures
When did it first appear?
1966Released 1966
field notes
What the sources say
1
The squire raises dead villagers to work his tin mine1
2
Burning the small ritual figures sets the zombies themselves alight1
3
Credited with influencing Night of the Living Dead1
4
Shot back to back with The Reptile on the same Cornish village set built by Bernard Robinson1
5
It turned a profit, earning about 2.34 million dollars in rentals1
Sources
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