The Dead One (1961)

• Year: 1961
• Released: 13 Jan 1961
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054793/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_dead_one
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Horror
• Runtime: 71 min
• Writer: Barry Mahon
• Director: Barry Mahon
• Cast: John McKay, Linda Ormond, Monica Davis
• Keywords: jazz, voodoo, new orleans, louisiana, zombie,

3.3/10

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Extremely dull zombie horror wash-out

A vengeful voodoo priestess revives a hideous rotting zombie back from the dead so it can do her evil bidding. Sound good? Well, it just ain’t. Boy, does this clunker strike out something stinky in every possible way: The flat (non)direction by Barry Mahon (who also wrote the excruciatingly talky and uneventful script), the sluggish pacing, the insipid acting from a lame no-name cast (only Monica Davis brings any true vigor to her role as the bitter and bitchy Monica), an alarming dearth of tension and spooky atmosphere, a minimal body count (only two folks get killed in this flick!), the meandering narrative, the static cinematography which makes numbing overuse of cruddy master shots, and the blah limply-staged conclusion all make this one a gruelingly tedious chore to endure. On the plus side, Darlene Myrick looks mighty sexy as ditsy exotic dancer Bella Bella, there’s some flavorsome footage of the French Quarter in New Orleans, and the snazzy swinging jazz group The Joe Burton Trio make a neat appearance performing in a club. A real snorefest.

It’s cheap, nothing much happens…but I liked it anyway

Once a lost film, this piece of no-budget zombie hokum is a treat for lovers of B-flicks. It’s shot to about the same technical standard as the early H. G. Lewis films, but with less locations and effects work; it tells of a man revived from the dead by a sinister voodoo ritual, and his subsequent rampage through a remote farmhouse. Actually, the zombie – who looks pretty effective in his rotten yellow makeup and funeral suit – just kind of wanders around for a while, causes a woman to die of fright and then disappears in a puff of smoke, but that’s all right by me!

Cheese is the order of the day here, with a handful of cast members giving sometimes excruciating performances (Monica Davis is particularly appalling and it ‘s a wonder she had a career after this). The first half hour treats us to a show of New Orleans by night, complete with exotic dancers – the husband takes his new bride to a strip club on their honeymoon night, go figure – and plenty of musicians doing their thing. Then the action shifts to the remote farmhouse, where our central couple are joined by a dancer called Bella Bella and the black servants (slaves?) are fomenting unrest.

This zombie flick is slow paced and sometimes boring, with poor dialogue and worse acting. But I found myself liking it. It is what it is: it doesn’t make the mistake of trying too hard, and at just over an hour it doesn’t outstay its welcome, either. It’s a good example of the horror film at the beginning of the 1960s, when things were changing for the better, and Clyde Kelly’s shambolic zombie isn’t far off the creations Romero brought to life in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. So, yeah. B-movie fans should enjoy this one.

Zombie classic

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.