Films

Mysterious deaths haunt a small village in Cornwall. The local doctor, Dr Peter Thompson, writes a letter about these events to his mentor, Sir James Forbes. Dr Thompson’s wife, Alice, is friends with Sir James’ daughter, Sylvia, and persuades them to pay them a visit. Upon their arrival, they encounter strange occurrences in the surroundings of a deserted tin mine. Produced two years before Romero’s classic “Night of the Living Dead”, “Plague of the Zombies” is one of the last Haitian zombie films, here as an anti-colonialist critique, in Hammer’s only film about these creatures. Banned for being a film “of black magic (...) harmful for exhibition in the province because it is more propitious to belief in the cause of witchcraft”.