An expedition searching for treasure supposedly buried by the German army in the African desert during WW II comes up against an army of Nazi zombies guarding the fortune. Starring Manuel Gélin, Eduardo Fajardo, and France Lomay. An early Nazi zombie movie made in the Canary Islands and Spain. Long before the current Nazi zombie movie fad.
A playboy adventure novelist joins his publisher on an expedition to Voodoo Island in the Caribbean, where a cancer researcher is being forced to turn the tribes-people into zombies. The cancer researcher discovers that by treating the natives with snake venom he can turn them into bug-eyed zombies. Uninterested in this information, the unfortunate man is forced by his evil employer to create an army of the creatures in order to conquer the world. Starring William Joyce, Heather Hewitt, and Walter Coy. This film sat on the shelf unreleased for six years until is was picked up by distributor Jerry Gross (of Cinemation Industries), who needed a horror film to play on the bottom of a double bill with his in-house production I Drink Your Blood (1970). The title was changed to "I Eat Your Skin" and released in 1970.
A nerdy high school super whiz experiments with a chemical which will transform his guinea pig "Mr. Mumps" from a gentle pet into a ravenous monster. In a fit of rage against his tormentors at the high school, Vernon Potts (Pat Cardi) goes on a killing spree, eliminating all of those who ever picked on him—the Gym Coach, the School Jock, The Creepy Janitor (Mr. Griggs) & his hated teacher, Ms. Grindstaff. In the end he gets the jock's girlfriend for himself but his happiness is short-lived as the potion turns him into a monster hunted by the towns lame police Lieutenant—Bosman. Starring Pat Cardi, Austin Stoker, and Rosie Holotik. Yea, high school pretty much sucks.
Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Karl Wagner uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. When things get out of hand, Wagner kills his henchmen, who wind up as zombies in the cellar of the soup kitchen. Starring Bela Lugosi, John Archer, and Wanda McKay. A strange retro-zombie-thriller!
On the Franco-Austrian Frontier during WW I, an oriental priest, chaplain of a French colonial regiment, is condemned to life imprisonment because he possesses the power of turning men into zombies. As the priest in his prison cell is preparing to burn the parchment containing the location of the secret formula, Colonel Mazovia kills the priest and takes the partially-burned parchment. Fade to after the war to an expedition of representatives from all the Allied countries being sent to Cambodia to find and destroy forever the Secret of the Zombies. Starring Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger, and Roy D'Arcy. An early movie filmed at Angor Wat in Cambodia!
Zombies, Nazis and Mind Control all collide in this moody 40s thriller on a Caribbean Island with lots of very nasty things. The early telling of a secret island base for the use of the battling superpowers. The movie starts somewhere over the Caribbean during the very beginning of WWII, a small plane gets downed by a tropical storm. The pilot, his passenger, and the passenger’s manservant find themselves on a plantation owned by the mysterious Dr. Sangre. The manservant discovers that there are zombies wandering about, while the pilot and the other guy figure there’s something rotten about Dr. Sangre. It turns out that Sangre is a spy for an unnamed European power —apparently the Nazis—that was before Pearl Harbor and America wasn’t officially in the war yet) and has captured a U.S. military official. And he plans to use a voodoo ritual to extract classified information from his prisoner. Starring Dick Purcell (of Captain America serial fame), Mantan Moreland and Joan Woodbury. The best of all the old zombie movies!
