Friday, July 15, 2022

Revenge of the Zombies (1943)

Not quite as much fun as a film about a mad German scientist creating an army of Nazi zombies should be if we are to be honest.




Scott (Mauritz Hugo) heads to a mansion in the Louisiana swamp where his sister Lita (Veda Ann Borg) lives with the scientist von Altermann (John Carradine). Or rather lived because Lita has died in mysterious circumstances. von Altermann seems in a rush to bury his wife and the corpse quickly vanishes. The reason being von Altermann is creating an army of zombies. He intends to return to the Third Reich and create an invincible army of the undead!

However, Lita being a good all-American gal isn't one to bow done to the Third Reich even if dead! She rebels against von Altermann's control, but can the zombie army be stopped?

Not a brilliant film though quite watchable, the budget is pretty low and the "swamp" scenes are obviously an indoors film set. The zombies are not very scary, just rather slow moving people. The best part is probably the comedy antics of Jeff (Mantan Moreland).