A voodoo priestess sends out zombies to bring back live victims for her sacrificial rituals.A voodoo priestess sends out zombies to bring back live victims for her sacrificial rituals.A voodoo priestess sends out zombies to bring back live victims for her sacrificial rituals.
John McKay
- John Carlton
- (as John MacKay)
Paula Morris
- Kooch Club Proprietress
- (as Paula Maurice)
Joe Jones' Orchestra
- Dixieland Band
- (as Joe Jones Orchestra)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSix-inch voodoo dolls with "real hair" were given as a premium with each paid admission at some venues during the initial run of THE DEAD ONE.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Shiver & Shudder Show (2002)
Featured review
Now, this is one boring film! For such a short film, they sure find a lot of time for nothing to happen, which is a shame because I was looking forward to this one.
You've got your playboy jazz guy who's settling down in a plantation he's inherited, but not after taking his new bride to see some jazz, some other jazz, and a belly dancer (that must every new bride's dream honeymoon!). Boringly, his cousin, who's mental, is doing voodoo at the plantation and resurrecting her dead brother so he can kill the new bride for some reason (seems awfully complicated when a simple gunshot would do). This involves a lot, and I mean a LOT, of bongo abuse. Seriously, the guy in this film hammers those bongos so much I'd expect his fingers were the size of Arnie's biceps by the time they'd finished the film.
So, near enough the first three quarters of this film are uneventful, so by the time they have the dead guy shuffling about looking to throttle someone, you'll be sound asleep. It did dawn on me that the zombie resembled Diamond Dogs era, coke-addled Bowie, so that gave me a chuckle, as did the ending, where the hero was all like "Well, cops that's what happened. See ya!".
You might derive fun from this. The print you can get in the UK is one of the best I've seen for such an old film.
You've got your playboy jazz guy who's settling down in a plantation he's inherited, but not after taking his new bride to see some jazz, some other jazz, and a belly dancer (that must every new bride's dream honeymoon!). Boringly, his cousin, who's mental, is doing voodoo at the plantation and resurrecting her dead brother so he can kill the new bride for some reason (seems awfully complicated when a simple gunshot would do). This involves a lot, and I mean a LOT, of bongo abuse. Seriously, the guy in this film hammers those bongos so much I'd expect his fingers were the size of Arnie's biceps by the time they'd finished the film.
So, near enough the first three quarters of this film are uneventful, so by the time they have the dead guy shuffling about looking to throttle someone, you'll be sound asleep. It did dawn on me that the zombie resembled Diamond Dogs era, coke-addled Bowie, so that gave me a chuckle, as did the ending, where the hero was all like "Well, cops that's what happened. See ya!".
You might derive fun from this. The print you can get in the UK is one of the best I've seen for such an old film.
Details
- Runtime1 hour 8 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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