Creature of the Walking Dead

A demented pseudo-scientist Dr. Malthus (Fernando Cassanova) prolonged his life injecting an elixir of human blood is executed, and later resurrected by his no less ill-fated ancestor in this likeably lurid cut n' paste's Mexican/US creature feature! Once reawakened, Malthus Sr.'s deranged bloodlust returns undiminished by death, and his devilishly gruesome rampage draws the authorities ever closer to his monstrous laboratory. Creakier than a medieval codpiece, there's still much ripened psychotronic grisliness to be found in this cheap and fearful 60s creep-fest!

The delightfully grisly methodology of Dr. Malthus's fiendishly blood-sucking apparatus is still pretty grim to behold! Creature of the Walking Dead is generously stuffed with more cheesy corn than a bargain Burrito! This moodily monochromatic, shriek-slathered, blood-sodden B-Terror titbit unearthed from the musty vaults of gaudy Drive-in double thrills remains a horrific hoot! Creature of the Walking Dead explodes in a vile, shocking miasma of perversely purloined blood-plasma! No humane soul will remain untarnished after witnessing the diabolically degenerated lusts of that malign dessicated revenant, Dr. Malthus!

A doctor revives the corpse of an ancestor without realising that, before his death by hanging, he maintained his youthful looks by siphoning the blood from young women into his own body. A cinematic cut-and-paste job from Jerry Warren, who bought the rights to what looks like a half-decent Mexican horror movie from 1961, talked all over the foreign-language dialogue, and added a few English language scenes which have virtually nothing to do with the central plot. It's as messy as it sounds - and not in a fun way

This is far from being a good film but I think it's a little bit better than awful. I found it on the interesting side even though it is a chopped up version of 'La Marca Del Muerto' with extra footage, dubbing and cutting out scene from the original film.

I am one of the weird people that found Jerry Warren's 'Face of the Screaming Werewolf' strangely appealing - and that is an awful film. 'Creature of the Walking Dead' isn't quite as bad as 'Screaming Werewolf' to me. Something about both films bad films that I like - I think it's the oddness of the films that attracts me.

Creature of the Walking Dead is not a film that horror fans should see - it's one to easily pass up but is watchable for some.

6/10

The usual Jerry Warren cut and paste job. Its like watching La marca del muerto only with long dull scenes of people explaining the new incoherent plot, and of course, its mildly amusing at that. Decent flick for what it is, not boring but really brings down the original film.

btw prepare to hear the theme of La marca del muerto over and over and over and over again. Its a good piece but its just really overused.

This film begins in the 19th century with a man named "Dr. John Malthus" (Fernando Casanova) stalking and then kidnapping a young woman coming home from church one night. After placing her unconscious body in his laboratory, he immediately begins to drain her blood with a hollow tube and siphoning it off into his own body. How much blood he intended to drain from her is unknown because, just moments into the procedure he is interrupted by the police and dragged off to jail while she remains tied up and unable to free herself. She eventually dies of hunger in the laboratory while Dr. Malthus is tried and executed for the previous murders of several other people. The scene then shifts to a number of years later with a relative of Dr. Malthus named "Dr. Martin Malthaus" (also played by Fernando Casanova) inheriting the house and discovering the secret laboratory previously used by his infamous ancestor. Not only that, but inside the laboratory he also discovers a secret journal that Dr. John Malthus used to write a formula for immortality. Fascinated by this discovery, Martin decides to dig up the body of his ancestor and, with modern laboratory devices, attempts to recreate the secret formula in an attempt to bring to bring him back to life--and it's then that the horror begins all over again. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that, when I first began watching this movie, I thought that I had seen it before as everything was much too familiar. Sure enough, I soon realized that the initial part of the movie was borrowed from the 1961 film "La Marca del Muerto" but with music and narration in the place of the original dialogue. Likewise, key segments of the original film were also inserted at various other times to essentially create an entirely different picture. The problem with this cheap and disingenuous technique was that it lent a rather patchwork quality to the picture and rendered it somewhat incomprehensible at times. For example, in one particular scene Dr. John Malthaus is conducting an experiment on a woman but it never showed how that woman came to be found in this predicament. Admittedly, there exists the possibility that the film I was watching had been edited and was a bit incomplete in that regard. Even so, I'm not sure it would have made much difference as I didn't enjoy this film that much and for that reason, I have rated it accordingly.