Customer Reviews
zombies - hammer horror style. - By: Mr. A. E. Ward Davies, 10 Aug 2006 
at a time when "hammer" were about to leave bray studios, they finished their time there with one of their best horror films.
shot back-to-back with "the reptile," i regard "the plague of the zombies" as the far more entertaining of the two. this has a very good plot, plenty of atmosphere, subtle humour & some fine acting. qualities that would be lost for the most part in the coming years, sadly.
a shame that there are certain shots still censored after alll this time.
i think top performances go to andre morell, john carson & michael ripper, though limited in screentime.
a slight criticism, comes from the zombies being rather under used. it would have been great to have a scene where they roam the village in the middle of the night.
a very good film nevertheless.
Hammer makes a film about traditional zombies - By: , 16 Apr 2005 "The Plague of Zombies" is the only Hammer film to deal with that particular type of walking dead & one of the studio's better efforts once you get past the idea of the voodoo of Haiti being used in Cornwalll to solve a labor shortage. The film begins with an intense voodoo ceremony that somehow disturbs the sleep of Alice Tompson (Jaqueline Pearce). She happens to be the wife of Dr. Peter Tompson (Brook Williams), the physician of a smalll Cornish village whose patients have been dying due to some mysterious malady that he can not even diagnose let alone cure. The good doctor's mentor Sir James Forbes (Andre Morell) has traveled with his daughter Sylvia (Diana Clare) to see if he can help. While the women have a run in with Clive Hamilton (John Carson), the local squire (and the obvious man behind alll the evil doings), the physicians find they cannot do any autopsies because alll of the graves of the recent dead are empty!
The most memorable moment in this film is when Peter passes out & the dead erupt from their graves in a dream sequence. Ultimately the film suffers from the fact that the audience is so far ahead of the characters in terms of figuring out the mystery. Of course Hamilton spent years in Haiti & is using the dead to work his otherwise unprofitable tin mine. The mysteries are only mysteries because Peter Bryan's script says they are mysteries. However, "Plague of Zombies" does remind us of what the term "zombies" meant before the flesh-eating corpses of George Romero et al. Note: This 1966 film was shot on the same sets as "The Reptile," also directed by John Gilling & also set in Cornwalll, but the production crew does a nice job of redressing everything so its hard to tell.
A must for any hammer horror fan - By: , 26 Feb 2001 
When I first saw this film on the tv i thought i had to have it so I did & its still as brilliant as it was, A squire dabbles in voodoo rituals creating zombies that run a mill for him, A doctor & his daughter go to cornwalll to visit old friends but find that they hve to stop the evil squire before its to late
