Dead Men Walk (1943)
When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.
- Sam Newfield
- Melville De Lay
- Fred Myton
Rating: 4.6/10 by 28 users
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Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 04 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: funeral, magic, vampire, cemetery, revenge, murder, crypt, twins, death, crucifix, occult, angry mob, woman in peril, small town milieu, mad woman, small town doctor, missing coffin, library of evil lore, protection by crucifix, face at the window
So brother "Edwin" is peacefully laid to rest by twin "Lloyd", only - well, that's what he thinks - and when his brother returns to seeks vengeance on him and his family we have a good old fashioned battle of good versus evil. George Zucco plays the twins and as usual, keeps the plot moving along in quite an eery fashion as the locals start to turn up mysteriously dead and the villagers start to suspect our good "Edwin" It's been lit with half a dozen candles, which in this case actually helps create extra atmosphere but the ending reverts to type and is really quite disappointing. It's only an hour and is, frankly, no worse than many of the other contemporaneous Vampire/horror films made during WWII.
