Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786305650638
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305650632
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: November 02, 1999
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: January 12, 1966

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
Anticipating Night of the Living Dead by a couple of years, the John Gilling-directed Plague of the Zombies gives the gothic treatment to the stumbling undead. André Morell plays an unassuming medical professor called by a former student, village doctor Peter Tompson (Brook Williams), to investigate a mysterious plague in a small Cornish village. They uncover an unholy plot by the devilishly decadent local Squire (John Carson), who has been using black magic to create an army of laborers to work his failing tin mine and has now infected William's sickly young wife. Gilling sets a spooky atmosphere, a fog-drenched village where the inhabitants live as if under a cloud of doom, dominated by the arrogant squire, who bullies his way about with his gang of cruel, aristocratic thugs. The film's highlight is the eerie introduction of the zombies, clawing their way up through the earth and emerging as lumbering, death-masked ghouls. The film has been remastered from the original 35mm negatives in the Hammer vaults, and letterboxed to its original aspect ratio. --Sean Axmaker




Rating: - Zombies Hammer-style
Fete of Death
When I ordered this movie a few days ago, I didn't realize I had already seen it. The title "Plague of the Zombies" didn't ring any bells. After the fox hunters kidnaped Andre Morell's daughter, though, I remembered that I had already seen it.

This is an excellent Hammer horror movie that few people have ever heard of. I don't know why this movie gets so little exposure. It's right up there with the best of Hammer's horror flicks. It has a great gothic ambience, ... Read More

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Rating: - A pleasant little diversion
If you want special effects and gore, this isn't the movie for you. However, despite the lack of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, A Plague of Zombies is a classic Hammer Horror film.

So if you are in the mood for a period horror film (Victorian era England) that doesn't involve Vampires, Werewolves, or Frankenstein's monster, this movie has a lot to offer. (Spoilers Follow) In a nutshell, a well respected older doctor is called away from London to help one of his former students. ... Read More

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Rating: - Zombie Invasion in Cornwall....Well 5 or 6 Zombies!
"Plague of the Zombies" is one of Hammer's more curious and therefore interesting productions of the 1960's. The 1960's saw Hammer diversify their film forms and in addition to their colour gothic horrors, they also produced monochrome psychological thrillers in the mould of Hitchcock such as "Maniac" and a range of films for the summer holidays to be enjoyed by children such as "Captain Clegg" and "The Devil Ship Pirates" in many ways "Plague of the Zombies" also steps out of the normal gothic horror ... Read More

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Rating: - Solid Hammer House Movie
Firstly, the movie doesn't involve a plague of zombies at all, rather a modest collection of them being used as illegal workers underground in a tin mine - remember "101 uses for a dead cat"? Despite this, all the usual Hammer type features are here: the superstitious villagers blind to what is happening under their noses, the outsider running his own investigation by digging up bodies in the middle of the night, cigars and brandy around the fire, the deranged squire who hides the evil secret in his castle ... Read More

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Rating: - One of the very best Hammer films!
This is one of the finest horror films produced by Hammer Films in the Sixties. It features great sets, fine acting, and several genuinely chilling moments. It loses a star because some of the story elements in the ending feel too much like "uh-oh... we're on page 83 of the script, so it's time to wrap things up!"

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