Noutions
Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
Console
best movie i've ever seen.
FirstWitch
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Zlatica
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
jacobjohntaylor1
This is a very scary movie. It is scarier then The Shinning and that is not easy to do. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. 5.3 is a good ratting. But this is such a great film that 5.3 is underrating. I give it a 9. I is very scary. This is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street and that is not easy to do. This is scarier then Friday the 13th V a new beginning and that is not easy to do. This is scarier then Halloween resurrection ever could be. This is scarier then Hellbound Hellrasier II and that is not easy to do. This about people trapped on an Island with zombies and a zombie cult the raised then. It is one of the scariest movies of all time see it.
Nigel P
In this standard comedy horror, three travellers make a forced landing on a remote island where they are met by Dr. Sangre (Henry Victor, playing Bela Lugosi - for whom the role was originally intended) and his servant Momba (Leigh Whipper). The two bland leads James and Bill (Dick Purcell and John Archer) are shown to their rooms, where manservant Jefferson (Mantan Moreland) is told he is to sleep in the servant's quarters. When he protests, James confirms that he will do as he is told.Jeff becomes acquainted with the hired help and becomes convinced the remote building is haunted by zombies.'Zombies? What's them?' 'Dead folks that walks around.' This is the kind of wide-eyed, knock-about light comedy fairly prevalent around this time. A haunted house mystery of sorts, featuring the blank-eyed dead. It is Moreland's show really. Madame Sul-Te-Wan, playing Tahama, also invests her part with a convincingly unnerving sense of superstition. While the chisel-jawed American actors play adequate straight leads, their 'subordinates' are far more interesting and entertaining, although in-keeping with the one-note scares on display, are limited in their patter.As shivering Jeff states towards the film's close, 'If there's one thing I wouldn't want to be twice, zombies is both of them!"
JoeB131
This movie is kind of odd, you know it is something from a very different time.The plot is that in 1941, a navy plane full of weather equipment crashes on an Island where a suspicious foreign doctor is. (It's implied but never said he's German, because America hadn't gotten into the war yet.) He is using hypnosis to turn people into Zombies, and to get information out of an Admiral who crashed on the island previously.The best part of the movie is the banter between Jeff, played by Mantan, and the girl playing the maid. He really steals every scene he's in.The more dubious part of this movie are the racial attitudes. The two white male leads treat Mantan's character almost as badly as the Nazi villain does. Hollywood wasn't ready for change, just yet.
gavin6942
During World War II, a small plane off the south coast of America is low on fuel and blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash land on an island.This film is all about Mantan Moreland, who plays Jefferson. While his role is that of manservant, and there is a constant theme of racism, he is just really, really funny. I do not know if I should feel bad for laughing, because the jokes are often at his expense. But he just delivers such great responses to others, and you almost have to feel bad for him...The role of the island master (Dr. Sangre) was intended for Bela Lugosi, with Peter Lorre as a backup choice. Either would have been great, of course, particularly considering the villain was supposed to be Germanic (they suggest he has Nazi ties but never say it outright). But my dear Bela cannot be in ever horror film of the 1940s, can he?
