A mad scientist, who discovered the secret of eternal youth by draining of blood from a young woman, gets executed. His ancestor moves into the home, eventually discovering the scientist's b... Read allA mad scientist, who discovered the secret of eternal youth by draining of blood from a young woman, gets executed. His ancestor moves into the home, eventually discovering the scientist's body. He revives him, and the terror continues.A mad scientist, who discovered the secret of eternal youth by draining of blood from a young woman, gets executed. His ancestor moves into the home, eventually discovering the scientist's body. He revives him, and the terror continues.
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Bruno VeSota
- Police Inspector
- (as Bruno Ve Sota)
Aurora Alvarado
- Frieda the Maid
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Fernando Casanova
- Dr. John Malthus
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
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Rosa María Gallardo
- Miss Vernon
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
G.J. Mitchell
- Martin Malthus (voice)
- (uncredited)
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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
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.
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 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
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
Had to do some research on this one. This film was originally a Mexican film directed by Frederic Corte and titled 'La Marca Del Muerto' American director Jerry Warren bought the rights, threw in a few new scenes, took out a lot of the dialogue and dubbed the rest in English. Mostly instead of dialogue he gave it narration explaining what you are viewing. You can really tell the difference from the original scenes and the ones that were added by Warren. The original footage seemed to have great atmosphere had a neat Gothic look about it. The added American scenes are terrible. The constant narration is aggravating and the scenes added by Warren are almost laughable. I have to say almost laughable because it's really a shame that he probably butchered the original 'La Marca Del Muerto'. It might have been nice to see it before the hack job and with legitimate dubbing. Creature of the Walking Dead is a pretty bad movie. It's not worth your time to view this film only to end up disappointed.
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!
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!
Did you know
- TriviaMost of the dialogue of the main characters from the original Mexican version this film is omitted (with usually a long English narration over-top of that dialogue) or obviously overdubbed by non-Spanish speaking actors.
- GoofsWhen Dr. Malthus' grandson first enters his grandfather's secret experiment room, he's attacked by what is obviously a fake "flying" bat.
- ConnectionsEdited from La marque de la mort (1961)
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- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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