Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Logan Dodd There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

utgard14 Cheapie horror comedy from Monogram, a sort of sequel/remake of King of the Zombies. Mantan Moreland was in both pictures playing the same character. There are small differences in the plots of the two films but essentially they're the same - a couple of white guys and their black valet (Moreland) wind up in a spooky old dark house where a mad scientist (John Carradine) is experimenting with zombies for the Nazis. Moreland is an acquired taste but he's pretty much the only person in this who appears to be trying. Even John Carradine looks bored. There's not a lot about this to love. It's not as cheesy or fun as you might hope. As much as I didn't care for King of the Zombies, there were at least some funny moments here and there. This is just blah.

MartinHafer Monogram Studios was a very low-budget film company that had a knack for creating dumb movies that still were often entertaining. Cerebral? Never...but fun in a low-brow sort of way. So, if you are looking for William Shakespeare, keep looking for another studio. But, if you like schlocky Lugosi, Carradine or George Zucco films, then this is the studio for you! Here, we find John Carradine in a couple familiar roles--a mad scientist AND a Nazi!! But unlike the typical insane Nazi scientist, he has come up with a rather unique plan--to create an army of zombies! This way, they Third Reich will have super-soldiers who are impervious to pain and practically unstoppable. Being a really nice guy, he kills his own wife and reanimates her--he's THAT devoted to his goody cause. Into this weird little world of bizarre experiments come a group of do-gooders--including Monogram's king of scaredy-cats, Mantan Moreland. In this movie, Moreland basically plays the same guy he played in the Charlie Chan films--comic relief that occasionally actually helps despite himself! As I said above, this is NOT a film for the intellectually-minded and I am sure the Criterion Collection will NOT be releasing this film any time soon. The acting is occasionally quite bad, the plot silly and the whole thing makes no sense if you think about it....but it's an oddly satisfying B-movie if you like that sort of schlock! So, if you like schlock, then this is very good schlock!!

Robert J. Maxwell It's instructive to compare this tale of zombies in da bayou country being raised to provide Hitler with an indestructible army, with Val Lewton's almost contemporaneous production, "I Walked With a Zombie", over at RKO. Both are saddled with lurid title and a low budget. Both have a few recognizable names at the head of the cast. But "I Walked With a Zombie" is immeasurably better than this one because of the care that Lewton put into his minor masterpieces. "Revenge" seems to have been thrown together hastily, made up of comic, dramatic, and mystery elements -- something for the whole war time family including the half-dozen kids. Maybe ESPECIALLY the kids.The plot is absurd, naturally, but generally speaking the notion of zombies is kind of interesting from a cultural perspective. Think of it. A horde of mindless workers who never die, never eat, and never get paid. Slaves who don't mind their condition. It's the very model of a traditional agrarian society. Zombies provide labor-intensive enterprises with the rough and unskilled hands they need. It's no surprise that we associate zombies with the Caribbean and the Gulf Coast. That's where plantations of rice, sugar, cotton, and tobacco thrived.Oh, yes. The movie.All done by the numbers. Everything is pretty much rudimentary, from the photography to the direction by Steve Sekely and set dressing. John Carradine gives the only truly smooth performance. Gale Storm is cute but irrelevant. Mantan Moreland does his usual eye-bulging number but never gets around to saying, "Feets, don't fail me now!," which might have salvaged at least one scene.Otherwise, the acting is no better than you or I could do. Of course the performers get no help from the script but it would hardly matter. If you doubt it, stand in front of your bathroom mirror and recite this line, "Gentlemen, I think that it's imperative that we see no unholy rites are performed over Mrs. Altermann." If that particular line is troublesome, try this one. "Forgive me, Hair Doctor, but I can't believe you would turn your wife into a zombie." Well, it's not entirely without its virtues. The movie provided employment for a number of African-American actors and actresses outside the flourishing black cinema of the period.The skeleton in the closet -- the one called "Charlie" -- is actually a female. The pelvic girdles are the windows of the skeleton.

lastliberal Poor John Carradine. He made a fatal mistake in thinking that he could turn his wife into a zombie and that she would obey his every command. Even dead, the wife is always right.Carradine starred as Dr. Max Heinrich von Altermann, a NAZI scientist that was trying to develop an army that would not have to eat and would be impervious to bullets for Hitler's army. He should have stuck to men and not tried to use his wife to prove his success. It proved his undoing.The film also featured the famous Mantan Moreland who, when he wasn't sniffing after the lovely Sybil Lewis, was engaging in the oft criticized stereotypical behavior that he was famous for, including the famous line "feet don't fail me now."