LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Leofwine_draca Once a lost film, this piece of no-budget zombie hokum is a treat for lovers of B-flicks. It's shot to about the same technical standard as the early H. G. Lewis films, but with less locations and effects work; it tells of a man revived from the dead by a sinister voodoo ritual, and his subsequent rampage through a remote farmhouse. Actually, the zombie – who looks pretty effective in his rotten yellow makeup and funeral suit – just kind of wanders around for a while, causes a woman to die of fright and then disappears in a puff of smoke, but that's all right by me! Cheese is the order of the day here, with a handful of cast members giving sometimes excruciating performances (Monica Davis is particularly appalling and it 's a wonder she had a career after this). The first half hour treats us to a show of New Orleans by night, complete with exotic dancers – the husband takes his new bride to a strip club on their honeymoon night, go figure – and plenty of musicians doing their thing. Then the action shifts to the remote farmhouse, where our central couple are joined by a dancer called Bella Bella and the black servants (slaves?) are fomenting unrest.This zombie flick is slow paced and sometimes boring, with poor dialogue and worse acting. But I found myself liking it. It is what it is: it doesn't make the mistake of trying too hard, and at just over an hour it doesn't outstay its welcome, either. It's a good example of the horror film at the beginning of the 1960s, when things were changing for the better, and Clyde Kelly's shambolic zombie isn't far off the creations Romero brought to life in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. So, yeah. B-movie fans should enjoy this one.

trashgang I did it again, i mean, watching a movie from the 60's. And again it came clear to me why i am not into movies coming from the fifties and the sixties. I can watch the old classics even flicks from the silent era without a problem but the era as stated is really nothing for me. It's the time they are trying to start with effects but they are so silly. This flicks was once a lost one and it popped up but never full uncut. This is the first full uncut release to see so I did but what should be the difference between cut and uncut here, I don't know. The movie clocks in just over one hour and still some scene's are way too long. When they shown some jazz clubs they show the musicians, but too long. I'm not wanted to see the jazz, I want to see horror...But it's the importance of this flick why you should have it. it's one of the early zombie flicks just before Night Of The Living Dead. I know, there are older ones but here it's more zombie than the early zombies flicks were it's all about voodoo. Here voodoo is also important but you see the zombie coming out of the grave. The zombie itself looks scary for the time being, but the storyline isn't that strong, it takes a while before things get started but the movie really has some followers due the history and as said, the importance in the story of zombie flicks.

MartinHafer The most amazing thing about THE DEAD ONE (aka, "Blood of a Zombie") is that this is not the worst film writer/producer/director Barry Mahon made in his less than spectacular career. No, I am not talking about the many low-budget porno films he made (by the way, for laughs, read the titles in his IMDb filmography) but such horrible dreck as SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY--a film that makes PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE and SANTA CLAUS VERSUS THE MARTIANS look like Oscar winners! Had more of Mahon's films been mainstream (and not cheap pornos) he'd be in the running for worst film maker ever. While that title has often been given to Ed Wood, I think Al Adamson should probably get that award...and Mahon at least getting an honorable mention. This film clearly shows Mahon had absolutely no idea what he was doing in the industry.The film begins with a man getting married. Now I don't know about you, but I would NOT take my blushing bride to see strippers and then pick up a stranded stripper to take on my honeymoon!! To make things worse, the strippers keep almost all their clothes on (they wear more than women do at the beach) and the stranded stripper was NOT on hand for a three-some. This made absolutely no sense at all, nor did including several irrelevant and poor musical numbers by understandably forgotten musicians from New Orleans---except to pad out the film so it would be long enough to be considered a full-length film In fact, without these meaningless numbers at the beginning of the "movie", the entire production would have only lasted about 50 minutes.Once the three arrive at the ancestral home that the man has just inherited, the crazy fun begins. It seems that the husband's cousin is a voodoo priestess and she is determined not to let him take possession of the "mansion" (it really looked like just a crappy old house). Then, with the powers of evil, she sends a man in a cheesy mask and yellow makeup to kill. Will the stripper, bride and/or stupid husband survive? Tune in and see.So what's good about the film. Hmmm....let me think....NOTHING!! What is bad consists of only minor things such as acting, direction, the production, the script, horrible sound and editing as well as grade-z special effects (they weren't particularly special--most high school kids could do a lot better with little effort). Some things I particularly liked to laugh at were the first victim of the zombie who just stood there and waited and waited and waited for the monster to kill her--as he moved slower than any zombie in film history. Finally, to make it a bit easier for this "menace", the victim conveniently fainted--otherwise he never would have gotten her. Another wonderful scene involved the cops coming to save the day...sort of. They shoot the wrong person and when the zombie disintegrates in front of them, their reaction (or lack thereof) was hilarious. Other memorable scenes were the Black extras (who mostly just stood around and did nothing whatsoever--even when their priestess is being attacked), the acting of the stripper (which managed to be even worse than the overacting priestess) and the, well,...everything else! Overall, this is a pile of crap...but still better than the other Mahon films I have seen. But, because it's so bad and so inept in every way, it makes for fun viewing. I found myself laughing time and again at just how rotten it could be.

zeppo-2 So says the leading man and he should know! Then again he keeps saying similar statements throughout this film, even when voodoo evidence is staring him in the face. But he isn't the sharpest tool in the box, after marrying his lovely new bride, he brings her back to the family's ancestral home and what does he do on their honeymoon? Shows her around the old slaves quarters and the burial crypts...Romantic fool or what?This zombie film falls into the old style, where the creatures stumble around while following the will of another. Unlike the brain eating ones from 'Night of the living dead' film and onwards. At least this one here is natty dressed in a suit and bow-tie, always good to look your best when your long dead.Reading between the lines, it looks like the producers of this film must have got some financial backing from the New Orleans tourist board as the first half hour takes in the jazz clubs and exotic dance bars of the city. A very slight story here in itself, the new groom's cousin wants the family business for herself and enlists her dead brother through voodoo to get rid of him and his friends. Only one person is killed, the annoying exotic dancer they picked up on the way and due to her appalling acting, I wasn't that sad to see her go! After gatecrashing the voodoo ceremony and throwing the beaten drum out the window and giving his cousin a good slap, our hero saves the day. Sudden sunlight finally does for the zombie brother, seems a lack of drum beat and sunlight are things that finish off these creatures. Here's me thinking it was a good bullet in the old noggin.At least the short running time is one thing in this film's favour but very little else. Still, I can now add to my fellow reviewer here, that there are now three (count 'em) people who have seen this film.Or in the immortal words of New Orleans jazz club owner puts it before launching into a piano solo, "What's happening, dad?"Er...not a lot actually....