Terrifying, suspenseful, exciting—- These are just a few of the words you will find nowhere in my review of Revolt Of The Zombies (1936). An entirely fitting conclusion to my contribution to MONTH OF THE LIVING DEAD since, having watched it, I now feel like one of the living dead myself.
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- About the Cabal
- Full Index of Reviews
- Roundtables
- 01: Brainathon ’99
- 02: Bangs'n'Whimpers
- 03: Post-Apocalypso
- 04: Review All Monsters
- 05: Pretty Mad Scientists
- 06: Tainted Love
- 07: Days of Future Past
- 08: Secret Santa
- 09: Catch a Throwing Star
- 10: Four-Color Features
- 11: Big Bugs
- 12: Fish With Bicycles
- 13: Go Go Go-Go Boys!
- 14: paLe IMITATIONS
- 15: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Roundtable
- 16: Whoa… Deja Vu.
- 17: Month of the Living Dead
- 18: B-Masters Beach Party
- 19: Kinji Fukasaku – The Man No Genre Could Tame.
- 20: Home Video Holocaust – The Video Nasties
- 21: Father Dearest: Who's Your Daddy?
- 22: So Sorry…
- 23: Back to the Well
- 24: Another Month of the Living Dead
- 25: The Ottoman Empire Strikes Back
- 26: Rubber Soul
- 27: Shhhhhh
- 28: Month of the Alternative Living Dead
- 29: On Time & Under Budget
- 30: These Kids Today…
- 31: Mea maxima culpa
- 32: Stingathon ’09
- 33: 10,000 B.S.
- 34: Foot Notes
- 35: Don’t Touch That Dial!
- 36: He Conquered the World
- 37: Secret Santa’s Revenge
- 38: At the Movies of Madness
- 39: They Might Be Giants
- 40: The Other Elizabeth Taylor
- 41: The Dark Guys of London
- 42: Falling Stars
- 43: To Be or Not To Be! (Pilot Error)
- 44: Teeth and Tentacles
- 45: Brunoween
- 46: Howl of the B-Masters
- 47: It’s Alive!
- 48: Bad, Black and Beautiful
- 49: Don’t Quit Your Day Job
- 50: B-Mentia 15
- 51: Quelle Horreur!
- 52: Carradine, Thou Wayward Son!
- 53: Tall, Dark and Gruesome
- 54: Pets Gone Wild
- 55: The Bad Place
- 56: From The Bible To Barbarella
- 57: A Fistful Of Pennies
- 58: Hello, Dolly
- 59: No, Not That One!
- 60: Dr Terror’s House Of Honours
- 61: WTF!?
- 62: In The Key Of B
- 63: The Forgotten Dawn Of Horror
- 64: The Most Dangerous Roundtable
- 65: Room For One More
- 66: Were-WHAT?
- 67: The China Anniversary Syndrome
- 68: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 2
- 69: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 3
- 70: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 4
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#1 by JessicaR. on October 27, 2007 - 7:51 pm
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I worry about you, subjecting yourself to this crap. And not fun crap either, Jason X crap. You should bump up the next film in your review queue to whatever lets you feel, if only for a moment, wha it felt like when the world was young and people laughed and loved and there were concerts in the park. Of course the more horrible the film + the more your unbridled contempt for it = the funnier it is. So that’s a cruel comfort at least.
#2 by Blake Matthews on October 28, 2007 - 3:42 am
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I’m still convinced that this movie, “Revenge of the Zombies”, and “King of the Zombies” are the same film. I’ve read reviews of the three films and still can’t remember the difference between.
#3 by lyzard on October 28, 2007 - 1:13 pm
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One has Asian zombies, one has John Carradine, and one got nominated for an Oscar. I’ll leave you to the game of figuring out which is which.
#4 by Blake Matthews on October 28, 2007 - 2:18 pm
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“I’ll leave you to the game of figuring out which is which.”
The reviews of all these films have been negative enough that I find myself hard-pressed to find a reason to want to play that game. 🙂
#5 by HP on October 28, 2007 - 4:34 pm
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Blake, if someone’s writing negative reviews of White Zombie, you can safely disregard anything else they might have to say.
Re. the love triangle in Revolt…: What’s the deal with shallow, venal women manipulating two men, one of whom is a psychopath and the other a weasel? I just re=watched The Phantom Ship last night, and it was the same deal there. I’d blame casual misogyny, but the screenwriters in the 30s clearly expect us to sympathize with these people. At least in Phantom Ship, you have the pleasure of knowing they all die.
Then again, I never understood why I should care about Lucy Westenra.
#6 by Tom Meade on October 28, 2007 - 5:06 pm
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I don’t think there’s a single character in Dracula worth actually caring about. Even Van Helsing – who, as a crazy old hermeticist with a funny accent, should be wonderful – is nothing but a grating pain.
And yet it works! Because a stuffy old Irish guy got off on it.
That said I probably liked Lucy and Mina at least a little, and Lucy did get to eat babies.
Also, that’s a good review! I’d probably still buy the movie if I saw it in a shop, though; so I’m not sure how much good it did.
#7 by Loki on October 28, 2007 - 6:03 pm
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What about Renfield? Poor old bug-eating, batshit-insane Renfield. He gets no respect. I think Dwight Frye’s turn as him is the only reason to watch the 1931 film.
#8 by Tom Meade on October 28, 2007 - 6:23 pm
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I forgot about Renfield.
Which is odd, considering one of my true dreams in life is to a see a film in which Tom Waits’ Renfield and Gary Oldman’s Dracula tour Europe as a music hall act prior to the events of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
I doubt it will ever materialise.
#9 by Blake Matthews on October 28, 2007 - 6:56 pm
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Nah, I hadn’t included “White Zombie”, just the other 3. I plan on revisiting “White Zombie” soon. It’s been 17 years or so.
#10 by JessicaR. on October 28, 2007 - 11:27 pm
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I liked the touch of NotLugosi having a black silk scarf tied around his pith helmet. Becuase it may be a pith helmet but he’s a bad guy so it’s a *sinister* pith helmet. Nice to see the care put into the details.
#11 by lyzard on October 29, 2007 - 1:04 am
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I only wish I could have gotten a better shot of his whole outfit, not least – THE BLACK PUFFY SHIRT!!!!
#12 by Matthew Fudge on October 29, 2007 - 3:17 am
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Is this movie where we see the hero flee through a ‘swamp’ by having him left his legs up and down in front of a picture? It’s fantastic. Also, I want a pith helmet.
#13 by El Santo on October 29, 2007 - 7:32 am
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“Is this movie where we see the hero flee through a ’swamp’ by having him left his legs up and down in front of a picture?”
Yeah, I think so. Certainly every other damn thing in the film happens in front of a picture.
#14 by Matthew Fudge on October 29, 2007 - 7:40 am
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You film a sequel simply by pausing the DVD and standing in front of the telly.
#15 by lyzard on October 29, 2007 - 1:13 pm
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I took some pictures of the “walking up-river” sequence but the effect kind of got lost in translation. I’m not sure yet if I have the capacity to make little videos for embedding, but if it turns out I do, that clip is going to be victim #1.
#16 by Tom Meade on October 29, 2007 - 5:14 pm
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Animated .gifs?
#17 by KeithA on October 30, 2007 - 12:09 pm
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I just wanted to add that “although of course no suspicion that the black-clad, furry-hatted, moustachioed, chin-bearded, smirking, sideways-glancing, accented chap lurking on the perimeter could be responsible for it ever crosses anyone’s mind” delights me every time I reread it.
#18 by lyzard on October 30, 2007 - 9:37 pm
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And the thought of you re-reading my review delights me every time I re-read your comment!
#19 by supersonic on November 3, 2007 - 11:59 pm
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An animated gif would probably do the job just fine — you probably only need about two seconds of footage to communicate the effect.
#20 by Braineater on November 5, 2007 - 10:38 pm
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If you want to experience the celluloid migraine which is Revolt of the Zombies, here’s the gist in a single, headache-inducing GIF…
#21 by lyzard on November 5, 2007 - 11:21 pm
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AAAHHHHHHHH-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!!!!!!!! Beautiful!!!!!
(While you’re at it, how about the priest tipping from side to side, too??)
#22 by Matthew Fudge on November 6, 2007 - 5:19 am
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have pith helmet, will dance
#23 by KeithA on November 6, 2007 - 1:28 pm
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This reminds me of the brief walking shot during the credits of Flight of the Conchords.
#24 by Braineater on November 6, 2007 - 1:30 pm
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That’s right, Matthew: everybody dances when they gotta pith.
#25 by Matthew Fudge on November 7, 2007 - 4:53 am
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Yeth they do.
#26 by Blake Matthews on November 7, 2007 - 5:22 am
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I wonder if that picture was taken on Lazanga…where they do the conga.