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‘A tide of terror floods the display!’
Zombies of Mora Tau is a 1957 horror movie directed by Edward L. Cahn (The 4 Skulls of Jonathan Drake; Invisible Invaders; Voodoo Lady) from a screenplay by George H. Plympton (The Phantom Creeps) and Bernard Gordon [as Raymond T. Marcus] (The Man Who Turned to Stone). Often known as The Useless That Stroll, it was launched by Columbia Photos.

The film stars Gregg Palmer, Allison Hayes and Autumn Russell.

Our evaluation:
Watching the workaday Zombies of Mora Tau, produced by the Sam Katzman unit (who supplied common, if largely unexceptional, cheapie style fare to Columbia Photos) makes one get the unusual feeling of getting stumbled right into a script read-thru or semi-dress rehearsal for a zombie chiller of later classic.

Substances are there: strolling lifeless who usually are not impeded by underwater environments (anticipating Shock Waves, 1975) and the zombie-contagion paranoia twist, that anybody killed by a zombie, rises up once more as a zombie themselves, incurable and hostile. Sadly, the decidedly desultory execution doesn’t imply a lot, and people style mile-markers may as properly have been arrived at by chance.

Behold coastal Africa, wanting like a nondescript deciduous-forest suburban neighbourhood exterior L.A. – with no black individuals perception, by the way in which. Salvage diver Jeff Clark (Gregg Palmer) arrives to assist help a seek for a submerged treasure chest of lacking diamonds, coveted by George Harrison (Joel Ashley), not the Beatle, one witty critic beforehand noticed, however an obsessed treasure hunter.

Jeff quickly learns the entire story; it appears the diamonds are accursed and have been initially misplaced in a lagoon throughout a 1916 expedition. Due to darkish magic, the primary crew to deal with the fortune changed into zombies, who nonetheless wander about, doomed to eternally guard the treasure above and under the water.

Additional fortune-seekers who’ve tried to convey up the field have been killed by the undead. Summarily interred in a handy crypt (nothing fancy; it appears to be like like crates in a featureless movie-backlot warehouse), these lifeless sailors of their matelot fits additionally stand up periodically and defend the treasure. Harrison doesn’t a lot care, demanding that Jeff presses forward with a brand new deep-sea rig.

Clean-eyed, unshaven, staring undead don’t look a lot worse for put on after being semi-submerged for half a century – simply consider how fashionable make-up artists would have gone to city on such horrors, even on a B-movie finances. However these are old-school voodoo zombies, simply stuntmen guys performing like they’re in a trance, creepy solely in a couple of scattered moments.

Fashionable accoutrements of flesh-feasting, an infection or bodily decay usually are not a part of the equation (or the finances). ‘Underwater’ scenes have been staged on dry land, with actors shifting slowly and lens filters making an attempt to recommend the life aquatic (or non-life, because the case could also be).

Zombies of Mora Tau is in cult actress Allison Hayes‘ filmography (Assault of the 50 Foot Lady), a sultry vamp whose curvaceous determine as of late would in all probability be banned by some worldwide legal guidelines. As Harrison’s gold-digger spouse, she’s a part of the massive reveal that going zombie is a one-way journey; they by no means get better and mindlessly activate family members. It might watch for George A. Romero and his form to convey that element out extra frightfully.

One other efficiency of observe is Marjorie Eaton, a peppery old-trouper sort usually seen in Miss Havisham-type roles, right here as a widow of the primary expedition who stays behind within the native zombie-besieged mansion, unable to depart behind her long-zombified husband. She’s the one one who appears to know something about efficient anti-zombie measures. Although no one pays consideration till it’s time for the movie to finish, which it lastly does, however not quickly or cleverly sufficient.
Charles Cassady Jr., MOVIES and MANIA

“Backside line, this movie is a really fulfilling romp stuffed with pleasant pulp tropes–and lovable bubble results — that utterly falls aside on the very finish. However as I mentioned, it’s solely 70 minutes lengthy, so it breezes by shortly sufficient that you simply don’t actually thoughts that it journeys over its personal ft within the final 2.” The Horrible Claw

Selection dialogue:
“Hiya. Weren’t you afraid there isn’t a zombie out right here.”
“You outdated hag! You’re lifeless already, you simply don’t have the nice sense to lie down.”
“If solely individuals may discover soul and thoughts when they’re alive.”

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