Teresa popped this on this evening.
I bought her a Hammer box, some years back. I think this is one we haven’t watched before. Always a relief!
We both like these olde horror films. Poss’ for slightly different reasons? Poss’ not? They often share a set of formulaic features. And this is no exception. But I guess that’s ultimately what’s part of their charms?
So far so formulaic, but also so good. Evil toffs, a pretty young wench, an aged but distinguished father/medical man, much hokum… and Eee-vill! Plenty of that.
Having said that, and given the subsequent growth to near ubiquity of zombie movies as a genre (esp. post Night of the Living Dead, etc.), Zombie movies per se, are a rarity in the Hammer canon.
When a young doc’ in a remote Cornish town gets a letter from his former star student, about mysterious deaths agogo, he takes his charming daughter to the epicentre of eee-vill…
The medical men upset locals with their poking n’ prying. Indeed, they almost get themselves arrested for body-snatching…
All told, a really fun slice of Hammer nonsense. This was originally actually the B-feature, supporting Dracula, Prince of Darkness. Of the two, I think I prefer this.