Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Curse of the Undead

Curse of the Undead is a 1959 horror western, a much underappreciated sub-genre. This one stars Eric Fleming, Michael Pate, Kathleen Crowley, and John Hoyt. Not great cinema, but this is a solid movie.

In this version the idea that a person becomes a vampire by being bitten by one is scrapped.



Fifties Westerns says, "Curse Of The Undead deserves to be seen as more than a curio. A unique blending of the Western and horror film, it doesn’t cave to the cliches of either — and it’s a better movie for it." Horrorpedia has a plot summary, screen shots, and links to reviews.

4 comments:

  1. I hate to admit this, but I've never heard of any of these actors. They are all new to me.

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    1. Fleming was Gil Favor in the Rawhide tv series. Pate played opposite John Wayne in Hondo and McLintock. Crowley did a lot of tv, including Maverick. Hoyt was the one I was most familiar with. He was in When Worlds Collide based on a science fiction book I was quite taken with, and he was in the pilot episode of Star Trek (TOS) and appeared in a number of other tv series.

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  2. I'm not good with names but I recognized some actor's faces. Loved the ending--LOL!

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    1. That's the way it is with me :) I have to look them up to remember where I know them from.

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