Revolt of the Zombies - Region 1 DVD

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For its time this movie isn't all that bad. I wouldn't say it's a horror movie now but I guess it was back then. There is some good dialogue in this movie at times and some of it made me laugh at bit, not in a bad way either. The over use of Bela Lugosi's eyes from White Zombie is a bit much but I guess Victor Halperin can do what ever he wants since he directed both films. That real is the only '... read more

Description: B B A tepid follow-up to White Zombie, Revolt has Dean Jagger discovering the secret of turning men into zombies, from the "robot army" that built the city of Angkor. Most scenes are static and dialogue heavy, and the story is plodding. There is hardly anything here of interest, even to a cinematic archaeologist, much less seekers of late-night diversion. You might be tempted to excuse this one as an artifact of 1930s cinema. But 1936 was a fair ways into the sound era, and saw the release of such disparate specimens of moving pictures as Hitchcock's Secret Agent, Chaplin's Modern Times, Capra's Mr. Deed Goes to Tow B
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A tepid follow-up to White Zombie, Revolt has Dean Jagger discovering the secret of turning men into zombies, from the "robot army" that built the city of Angkor. Most scenes are static and dialogue heavy, and the story is plodding. There is hardly anything here of interest, even to a cinematic archaeologist, much less seekers of late-night diversion. You might be tempted to excuse this one as an artifact of 1930s cinema. But 1936 was a fair ways into the sound era, and saw the release of such disparate specimens of moving pictures as Hitchcock's Secret Agent, Chaplin's Modern Times, Capra's Mr. Deed Goes to Town, and Astaire and Rogers in Swing Time. Revolt is an oddity at best. It's also packaged as a Fright Night Horror Classic along with Night of the Living Dead and Francis Ford Coppola's debut feature, Dementia 13. --Jim Gay

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