King of the Zombies (1941)

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is a very scary movie. It is scarier then The Shinning and that is not easy to do. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. 5.3 is a good ratting. But this is such a great film that 5.3 is underrating. I give it a 9. I is very scary. This is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street and that is not easy to do. This is scarier then Friday the 13th V a new beginning and that is not easy to do. This is scarier then Halloween resurrection ever could be. This is scarier then Hellbound Hellrasier II and that is not easy to do. This about people trapped on an Island with zombies and a zombie cult the raised then. It is one of the scariest movies of all time see it.

Bewitching, hypnosis, voodoo, rites of transmigration: a lowbrow comedy made in an epoch when some people, at least, thought these things made a comedy be more intriguing, more quirky, more over the top; like many others, they aren't humorous horrors, or over the top horrors, but comedies taking Gothic pretexts and spoofing them, 'King …' is a pure spoof, and a kind of a B favorite for people who don't really know or enjoy B cinema, and who believe this is what B cinema ought have been. Budget-wise, the show was neat, and its sets and cinematography look good.Joan Woodbury and Moreland are the walking trailers of this comedy, and he has a handful of funny one-liners.She has 2nd billing, and him, 3rd. For some reason, Archer got 5th billing, while Purcell got the … 1st.Tahama, the eerie cook, is also the priestess of the cult, and Sangre's hypnosis works as a complementary method, with the same results. Since war was at hand, the Austrian refugee is shown despising the black people, while the Yankees care for the manservant almost brotherly, when they descend some stairs one of them puts his hand protectively on the black man's shoulder. On their way to smashing the unbelievers, during the transmigration rituals, the zombies are switched to another target. If the recasting of the zombies' urge looks casual, provoked by Archer's shout, some significance is given to the religious nature of the gathering: apart from the ministers (the priestess, Sangre who blends voodoo with Irish bewitching), there is a congregation of black people, for whom the living dead have a religious meaning, legitimacy and value, the storyline reveals this social understructure, the religious side of the slavery (presumably not because of the scriptwriter's awareness, but because the trope was still such); when the Viennese refugee visits the priestess while she bewitches the seaman, he looks convinced by the theoretic efficiency of her ritual, though scoffing at the result.One of the tropes is the colonial _bewitcher and mastermind: a creepy foreigner who establishes a kingdom in a remote land. Both classic zombie tales and colonial manhunts recycle this trope, who must of been as much socio-historical as literary.Two actors aside, the rest of the cast isn't so likable. The cast and the script are the two main drawbacks; suspense isn't as much as attempted, nor any unholy feel, and, for a story supposed to be playful, it's _univentive, uninspired and trite. Archer, Purcell as the _zombified Irishman, Henry Victor as the insipid Sangre (played as a gentleman or a butler), Patricia Stacey as his mindless wife, and Guy Usher as the folksy seaman, weren't really a nice comic team. Given that they wished to have Lugosi or (at least) Lorre for the Sangre role, their other pick seems _unobvious, with a mostly bland and placid replacement.'King …' looks neat, but is bland, not very lively, as atmospheric or scary as any 5th rate sitcom, perhaps unconvinced, as if the crew didn't believe much in it, and it has an also bland, mediocre cast and a very bland script; there are cretins who hail it as a B classic.The line about Sangre's wife having tried to warn the guests alludes to her mysterious visit.

Well, I do declare! Thems were different days back then. Two US air force guys and their valet Jeff are forced to crash on an island in the West Indies, and find themselves staying at a strange house with an even stranger Germanic doctor, his out-of-it wife, and her niece. At first they are welcomed in the house, but gradually they realise that all isn't right. For one thing, Jeff, being black, is assigned to kitchen duties with the rest of the staff and encounters zombies. Also, there seems to be another pilot being held there for reasons unknown. Our three heroes do a bit of investigating (involving secret passageways, something that always makes me enjoy a film more), but we know what happens when folk investigate where they shouldn't, right? Before you know it our heroes are getting turned into zombies (including a hilarious scene where Jeff is turned. "Move aside boys, I'm one of the gang now.") It's all down to pilot Mac to help his mates, kick voodoo arse, sort out the Bosch and be back home for eggs and bacon. Oh yeah!Although the Lordy Lordy antics seem a bit weird with all us folks living in the future, I thought Jeff's character was brilliant. He gets all the best lines and makes to the two white leads seem like two well clothed store dummies. The zombies themselves are pretty good too, although not as creepy as those in White Zombie, they do their fair bit of shuffling around, which is always good. This is a better than average zombie film with plenty of laughs, voodoo nonsense, and some World War 2 leanings.

During World War II, a small plane off the south coast of America is low on fuel and blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash land on an island.This film is all about Mantan Moreland, who plays Jefferson. While his role is that of manservant, and there is a constant theme of racism, he is just really, really funny. I do not know if I should feel bad for laughing, because the jokes are often at his expense. But he just delivers such great responses to others, and you almost have to feel bad for him...The role of the island master (Dr. Sangre) was intended for Bela Lugosi, with Peter Lorre as a backup choice. Either would have been great, of course, particularly considering the villain was supposed to be Germanic (they suggest he has Nazi ties but never say it outright). But my dear Bela cannot be in ever horror film of the 1940s, can he?