Nonureva Really Surprised!

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Uriah43 This film (also known as "Blood of the Zombie" ) is one of those movies that could have been much better if the acting had been at least average. But it wasn't and the results speak for itself. Essentially, "John Carlton" (John McKay) is a young man who by getting married inherits a plantation as stipulated in a will. So he and his bride, "Linda Carlton" (Linda Ormand) drive into the Louisiana countryside to legally claim it. The problem is that his cousin, "Monica" (Monica Davis) has no intention of giving it up even though John Carlton offers her half of it. Realizing that the plantation will be all hers if something happens to the bride, Monica resorts to voodoo and raises a zombie to kill Linda. Anyway, rather than giving the entire story away I'll just say that this movie had a good location and decent storyline. John McKay turned in an adequate performance as did Linda Ormand and the nightclub dancer "Bella Bella" (Darlene Myrick) to a lesser degree. But what really killed this film was the acting of Monica Davis who sounded as if she was reading her lines for the very first time. In short, this film is worth a look only if you're an extreme fan of zombie films. Otherwise, just skip it.

Bezenby Now, this is one boring film! For such a short film, they sure find a lot of time for nothing to happen, which is a shame because I was looking forward to this one. You've got your playboy jazz guy who's settling down in a plantation he's inherited, but not after taking his new bride to see some jazz, some other jazz, and a belly dancer (that must every new bride's dream honeymoon!). Boringly, his cousin, who's mental, is doing voodoo at the plantation and resurrecting her dead brother so he can kill the new bride for some reason (seems awfully complicated when a simple gunshot would do). This involves a lot, and I mean a LOT, of bongo abuse. Seriously, the guy in this film hammers those bongos so much I'd expect his fingers were the size of Arnie's biceps by the time they'd finished the film. So, near enough the first three quarters of this film are uneventful, so by the time they have the dead guy shuffling about looking to throttle someone, you'll be sound asleep. It did dawn on me that the zombie resembled Diamond Dogs era, coke-addled Bowie, so that gave me a chuckle, as did the ending, where the hero was all like "Well, cops…that's what happened. See ya!". You might derive fun from this. The print you can get in the UK is one of the best I've seen for such an old film.

MartinHafer The most amazing thing about THE DEAD ONE (aka, "Blood of a Zombie") is that this is not the worst film writer/producer/director Barry Mahon made in his less than spectacular career. No, I am not talking about the many low-budget porno films he made (by the way, for laughs, read the titles in his IMDb filmography) but such horrible dreck as SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY--a film that makes PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE and SANTA CLAUS VERSUS THE MARTIANS look like Oscar winners! Had more of Mahon's films been mainstream (and not cheap pornos) he'd be in the running for worst film maker ever. While that title has often been given to Ed Wood, I think Al Adamson should probably get that award...and Mahon at least getting an honorable mention. This film clearly shows Mahon had absolutely no idea what he was doing in the industry.The film begins with a man getting married. Now I don't know about you, but I would NOT take my blushing bride to see strippers and then pick up a stranded stripper to take on my honeymoon!! To make things worse, the strippers keep almost all their clothes on (they wear more than women do at the beach) and the stranded stripper was NOT on hand for a three-some. This made absolutely no sense at all, nor did including several irrelevant and poor musical numbers by understandably forgotten musicians from New Orleans---except to pad out the film so it would be long enough to be considered a full-length film In fact, without these meaningless numbers at the beginning of the "movie", the entire production would have only lasted about 50 minutes.Once the three arrive at the ancestral home that the man has just inherited, the crazy fun begins. It seems that the husband's cousin is a voodoo priestess and she is determined not to let him take possession of the "mansion" (it really looked like just a crappy old house). Then, with the powers of evil, she sends a man in a cheesy mask and yellow makeup to kill. Will the stripper, bride and/or stupid husband survive? Tune in and see.So what's good about the film. Hmmm....let me think....NOTHING!! What is bad consists of only minor things such as acting, direction, the production, the script, horrible sound and editing as well as grade-z special effects (they weren't particularly special--most high school kids could do a lot better with little effort). Some things I particularly liked to laugh at were the first victim of the zombie who just stood there and waited and waited and waited for the monster to kill her--as he moved slower than any zombie in film history. Finally, to make it a bit easier for this "menace", the victim conveniently fainted--otherwise he never would have gotten her. Another wonderful scene involved the cops coming to save the day...sort of. They shoot the wrong person and when the zombie disintegrates in front of them, their reaction (or lack thereof) was hilarious. Other memorable scenes were the Black extras (who mostly just stood around and did nothing whatsoever--even when their priestess is being attacked), the acting of the stripper (which managed to be even worse than the overacting priestess) and the, well,...everything else! Overall, this is a pile of crap...but still better than the other Mahon films I have seen. But, because it's so bad and so inept in every way, it makes for fun viewing. I found myself laughing time and again at just how rotten it could be.

lastliberal Writer/Director/Producer Barry Mahon, who gave us Santa and the Three Bears, started out with cheesy flicks like this one, also known as Blood of the Zombie.Despite the low grade script by Mahon, and the Grade Z acting, this was a fascinating zombie picture, set appropriately in New Orleans.John MacKay may be investigating fellow cops on "Law & Order" but this baby is in his early career. His wife, Linda Ormond, was probably too ashamed to make another movie, as was the zombie, Uncle Jonas (Clyde Kelly), who was the perfect zombie. he had the clothes and the walk and the movement down pat. He should be in the Zombie Hall of Fame, if there is one.Good for a laugh and a look at the career work of Barry Mahon, an interesting character.