Bela Lugosi reteams with director Wallace Ford of Monogram after having made The Corpse Vanishes. This benefits from a decent idea - Lugosi runs a soup kitchen, which he uses to recruit crooks and turn them into zombies. The latter bit feels like a tacked on after thought to what is essentially a crime movie - it kind of works, I just feel could have worked better with some more thorough treatment.There's not enough zombie stuff eg the college student coming back to life at the end felt like a cheat.
Tom Neal lifts things as a gangster who works for Lugosi but who won't kill a woman. Other good scenes include an undercover college student who wants to know what goes through the mind as people die... then Lugosi orders Neal to kill him.
It has energy though and a pleasing degree of nuttiness.
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