The Undead (1957)

Calificación de los usuarios:

3.0/10   

Director:

Roger Corman

Escritores:

Charles B. Griffith (screenplay) and
Mark Hanna (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

marzo 1957 (USA)

Género:

Fantasía | Horror

Frase comercial:

A thousand years of naked terror!

Plot:

Two psychical researchers procure the services of a lady of the night and send her back in time under hypnosis...

Plot Keywords:

Witch | Medieval | Axe | Imp | Witchcraft

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Pure Allison Hayes

Reparto

Pamela Duncan	...	Diana Love / Helene
Richard Garland	...	Pendragon
Allison Hayes	...	Livia, witch
Val Dufour	...	Quintus Ratcliff
Mel Welles	...	Smolkin, the gravedigger
Dorothy Neumann	...	Meg Maud, witch
Billy Barty	...	The Imp
Bruno VeSota	...	Scroop, the innkeeper (as Bruno Ve Sota)
Richard Devon	...	Satan
Maurice Manson	...	Prof. Ulbrecht Olinger
Aaron Saxon	...	Gobbo, the Jailer
Don Garrett	...	The Knight (as Don Garret)
Dick Miller	...	The Leper (as Richard Miller)

También conocida como:

The Trance of Diana Love (USA) (working title)

Duración:

71 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

UK:15 | USA:Unrated

Locaciones de Filmación:

Beverly Hills, California, USA

Compañía:

American International Pictures (AIP)

Trivialidades:

The prop bats seen in the film are leftovers from Roger Corman's earlier film It Conquered the World (1956).

Errores:

Anacronismos: Lydia's dress sports a zipper in the back.

Citas:

[in loud, incredibly angry sounding voice]
Quintus: STAY!

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The Making of 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' (1997) (TV)

Pure Allison Hayes

I'm a big Allison Hayes fan and have caught her in most of her horror films such as "The Zombies of Moru Tau" and the MST3K Classic "The Unearthly," but this movie comes a lot closer to trully capturing her presence than her really big hit, "Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman." She was mostly missing from that movie despite being the star and she wasn't given very many 'attack' scenes. In the "Undead," she plays a sexy witch called Livia [sometimes sounds like Lydia] who pines for the heart of a knight, but is waylaid by a time-traveling call-girl in the body of a past life. The Bridey Murphy/ Reincarnation thing was a big topic back then, but then it could have been a much different movie if the hooker had landed in Allison Hayes. This mostly condemmed movie was filmed in a studio that had been a closed-down supermarket which attones for the claustrophobic sense of the sets. Largely ridiculed by critics and true horror fans [not including the guys who prefer the slice-and-dice/body counts/heavy gore movies], this movie redeems itself in the end with a strange twist that really grabs the watcher, but even then, not that many people seem to respect that kind of ending.