Revolt of the Zombies (1936) — film poster

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Revolt of the Zombies

Directed by Victor Halperin

1936 · United States · 65min · English
Horror · Zombie · Occult

Four years after White Zombie made horror history, the Halperin brothers tried to bottle lightning twice. No Lugosi this time, no Haiti either. A French officer crawls back from the trenches of the Great War into Indochina, obsessed with the secret of zombie command. He cracks the ritual in a Cambodian temple and turns it on the woman who broke his heart. The brothers even recycled the hypnotic eyes from the original, floating across the screen like ghosts of a better film. A Poverty Row pseudo-sequel about love weaponized into mind control. Cinematic graverobbing in the best sense.