This is an MST laugher that would make Ed Wood proud. Long before there were WWII Nazi zombies, there were WWI evil Buddhist zombies. These aren't the raise from the dead, foot dragging zombies, but rather simple mind controlled zombies impervious to bullets.
In Cambodia and expedition is under way to find the secret to the zombies and destroy it. Filmed in a studio with terrible backdrops, the scenery was as bad as the over dramatic acting with exaggerated gestures, and door slams/openings left over from silent films. Col. Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) plays a French Rasputin who wears his ribbons on his civilian attire. In fact the ribbons were kind of light on all the military men considering they were at war. On the trip, Armand (Dean Jagger) gets dumped by his fiancee (Dorothy Stone) for Clifford Grayson (Robert Noland) who has a more manly name. He also gets fired.
The scary aspect is when they impose Bela Lugosi's eyes on the screen from "White Zombie." Ooooohhhh Scarrrrry. The native Khmer dancer was comical in that her moves as clearly the music and motions were not Cambodian. The local tongue speaks 3 words which gets translated into 2 long sentences.
I laughed through much of the film, for all the wrong reasons, especially the death scene at the end where Dorothy Stone takes her clenched fist and dramatically lifts it to her forehead. How can you not laugh?
In Cambodia and expedition is under way to find the secret to the zombies and destroy it. Filmed in a studio with terrible backdrops, the scenery was as bad as the over dramatic acting with exaggerated gestures, and door slams/openings left over from silent films. Col. Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) plays a French Rasputin who wears his ribbons on his civilian attire. In fact the ribbons were kind of light on all the military men considering they were at war. On the trip, Armand (Dean Jagger) gets dumped by his fiancee (Dorothy Stone) for Clifford Grayson (Robert Noland) who has a more manly name. He also gets fired.
The scary aspect is when they impose Bela Lugosi's eyes on the screen from "White Zombie." Ooooohhhh Scarrrrry. The native Khmer dancer was comical in that her moves as clearly the music and motions were not Cambodian. The local tongue speaks 3 words which gets translated into 2 long sentences.
I laughed through much of the film, for all the wrong reasons, especially the death scene at the end where Dorothy Stone takes her clenched fist and dramatically lifts it to her forehead. How can you not laugh?