Friday, May 22, 2020

Movie review - "The Undead" (1957) ***1/2 (re-viewing)

An excellent script given a high school play production values. A few years later Corman would knock this stuff out of the park with his Poe movies but the sets and costumes feel like toy town.

The acting is fairly solid - Pamela Duncan, Richard Devon - and its fun to see Mel Welles as a weird grave digger and Dick Miller in medieval garb but the X factor belongs to  Allison Hayes, who is perfect as a witch.

The script is so smart - it has someone living in a past life, has a real witch and the devil, strong interpersonal relationships, and doesn't whimp out at the end.

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