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!
