Thursday, October 21, 2010

Messiah of Evil (1973)


Directed by Willard Huyck
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Code Red)

A girl wanders into the Pacific coastal town of Point Dune in search of her artist father. Instead she finds zombies have taken over the town. She meets a trio of non-zombies who have also just arrived, a man and his "traveling companions", two young girls. He wastes no time in seducing her, but the zombies are on the attack and they find themselves also turning into zombies due to some mumbo jumbo about a "red moon" and the "dark stranger". Occasionally moody and well-photographed, it nonetheless is too derivative of Night of the Living Dead to make much of an impact. My favorite scene takes place in a movie theater.

1 comment:

  1. its interesting i like the title revenge of the screaming dead

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