Before George Romero, before Night of the Living Dead, Hammer's Zombies brought the voodoo cult to the cinema. In the mid-19th century, several inhabitants of a small Cornish village fall victim to a mysterious plague. The country doctor Peter Thompson calls for help from his teacher emeritus, Sir James Forbes, who arrives from London with his daughter Sylvia. The trail leads them to an apparently abandoned mine and to a haughty landowner who has visited the Caribbean islands. The suspicion that black magic is involved, that corpses are rising from their graves and being exploited by the feudal lord, grows. The fire that ends the zombie plague is, according to the editors of the prestigious British Film Institute, an apt metaphor for the burning rage and fiery rebellion of the exploited as they turn against their oppressors.
John Gillings' voodoo thriller Nights of Horror has lost none of its suspense, not least thanks to James Bernard's magnificent score, and is rightly regarded as a classic of the genre.
Packaging: Amary
Aspect Ratio: 1:1.66 (16:9)
Audio format: German/English DD2.0
EXTRAS:
Audio Commentary with Dr Rolf Giesen and Uwe Sommerlad / 'Raising the Dead: Making of Plague of the Zombies / André Morell featurette / Interview with James Bernard (1994) / Trailer / International Title Sequence / Super 8 Version / Comic Adaptation / German Advertising Council / Press Kit / Film Programme / Still Gallery
