Man, Robert Bloch didn't like this adaption, saying: "The Dead Don't Die. Maybe they don't, but the show did. Despite Curtis's casting of accomplished character actors, their supporting roles couldn't prop up the lead. And Ray Milland, who had given such a deftly paced performance in my script for Home Away from Home, merely plodded through his part here like a zombie without a deadline."
As for me, I loved it. It's somehow a noir movie, a Poverty Row horror film, a zombie movie and it's made for TV. More like made for me.
George Hamilton plays Don Drake, a man who comes back from a long trip to learn that his brother fried in the chair for killing his wife, a crime that Drake thinks his brother is innocent of. He tries to clear the name of his sibling, leading him to the Loveland Ballroom, where his brother was involved in a dance marathon run by Jim Moss (Ray Milland).
The problem is, well, the dead don't die.
Drake soon sees his brother walking the foggy streets, as well as a man he's already killed once, Perdido (Reggie Nalder, who is in a ton of great movies like Salem's Lot and Seven). That's because Moss is also a master of voodoo.
Harrington had to be in heaven with this cast. Joan Blondell and Ralph Meeker may be underappreciated, but he remembered their work.
It's like a Val Lewton movie made in 1975 and if you know me, you know what kind of praise that is.
As for me, I loved it. It's somehow a noir movie, a Poverty Row horror film, a zombie movie and it's made for TV. More like made for me.
George Hamilton plays Don Drake, a man who comes back from a long trip to learn that his brother fried in the chair for killing his wife, a crime that Drake thinks his brother is innocent of. He tries to clear the name of his sibling, leading him to the Loveland Ballroom, where his brother was involved in a dance marathon run by Jim Moss (Ray Milland).
The problem is, well, the dead don't die.
Drake soon sees his brother walking the foggy streets, as well as a man he's already killed once, Perdido (Reggie Nalder, who is in a ton of great movies like Salem's Lot and Seven). That's because Moss is also a master of voodoo.
Harrington had to be in heaven with this cast. Joan Blondell and Ralph Meeker may be underappreciated, but he remembered their work.
It's like a Val Lewton movie made in 1975 and if you know me, you know what kind of praise that is.