A young doctor asks for the assistance of his mentor when the small village in Cornwell, where he has set up his practice, is hit by a bizarre epidemic. The villagers refusal to allow him to perform autopsies and the sinister shenanigans of the village Squire, Clive Hamilton, have left the poor Dr. Peter Thompson without any leads as to what is wiping out the townsfolk. Professor James Forbes arrives with his daughter Sylvia to bring whatever aid he can. A little digging eventually leads to the realization that voodoo is being practiced and the dead are walking... well, working in the nearby tin mines thanks to the living villagers refusing to set foot there. Unfortunately, Hamilton has just set his sights on young Sylvia and nobody has been able to stop his black magic as of yet. Another winner from Hammer features some cool looking zombies, voodoo rituals with drums and freaky masks, an excellent nightmare scene and a charmingly British group of characters. Wonderfully original outing from Hammer.
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