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Bookmark this pageRevenge of the Dead (1975)
Director: Evan Lee
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From Time Out Film Guide
This wreck could best be summarised as a really bad episode of Night Gallery, endlessly protracted. The makers appear to have dabbled in cinema in much the same way that their characters dabble in the occult: ineptly, and with horrendous results. Christopher Lee has been enlisted to give a pre-credits pep talk, but surely he couldn't have seen what follows: a cut-rate catalogue of amateur acting, botched continuity, mismatched footage, and all-embracing incompetence. Purporting to portray a paralysis victim's psychically-conjured monster, the film-makers feel obliged to spike the mess with derivative, adolescent 'humour' and a dose of prurient sex. Not even the aesthetic of trash could be used to defend this saddening spectacle.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Evan Lee
Producer: Ray Atherton
Cast: Larry Justin, J Arthur Craig, James Habif, Robert Clark, Doug Senior, Christopher Lee full cast
Duration: 87 mins
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