Best movie ever!

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The hero of THE UNDEAD's got it made: on the one hand, he has Pamela Duncan lusting after him; on the other, Allison Hayes has the hots for him- that's a win-win situation, if you ask me... THE UNDEAD milks this sexual tension for all it's worth- and THEN some. "My lance would bend," moans the gravedigger. Uh-huh... Not in THIS world. Allison Hayes would've made a great Wonder Woman, had Hollywood had the foresight to see it; she and Pamela Duncan BOTH do commendable work in THE UNDEAD. A great deal of credit also has to go to the writer (the script is surprisingly literate for a Low Budget quickie), as well as director Corman himself: once again, he demonstrates remarkable competence behind the camera.

With Halloween coming up,I started searching round for Horror DVDs that I could list on Ebay,and I stumbled across a title that I had picked up years ago for a £1,that was actually rather rare!,which led to me getting ready to witness the undead come to life.The plot:Wanting to explore the outskirts of the mind, psychical researchers Quintus Ratcliff & Prof. Ulbrecht Olinger hire prostitute Diana Love to be their unsuspecting test case.Pushing Olinger's doubts aside,Ratcliff begins to help Love to remember her past.Looking beyond her current location,Love discovers that she is a reincarnation of Helene,whose spirit has not been able to fade due to Helene wrongly getting killed for being a "witch."Feeling an intense connection to her past life,physical features on Helene start to appear on Love.With Love having built s strong bridge to her past,Ratcliff decides that he must get his brainwave to cross over with Love's,so that he can finally put a stop to Helene/Love's cycle of pain.Crossing over to Love's past life,Ratcliff soon discovers that a real witch has her own spell for him.View on the film:Casting the film in a gloomy Gothic Horror backdrop,the screenplay by Charles B. Griffith & Mark Hanna cuts deep into the chills with a delicious comedic relish,as the grave digger sings folk songs that are given a nasty twist,and an imp/dwarf dashes across the screen in order to do his masters bidding.Whilst they dip the movie into pretty funny comedy waters,Griffith and Hanna make sure that the Gothic Horror backbone stays strong,with the search for Love's past digging up memories that should remain hidden. Diving into Love's mind,the writers end the exploration on a wonderfully cynical,down- beat note.Perfectly capturing the atmosphere of the screenplay,director Roger Corman and cinematographer William A. Sickner take the movie down some charmingly bonkers avenues,which goes from the main witch reappearing/disappearing as if she was in a TV Comedy show from that era,to some stunning girls performing a graveyard dance.Filmed in 6 days at a disused supermarket,Corman matches the titles sweet sense of humour with a stylish Gothic Horror edge,as the soaked in shadows,burnt out villages perfectly reflect the fragmented mind of Love.Moving across minds, Val Dufour gives a very good performance as Ratcliff,who Dufour makes to look really puffed-up at the beginning,but to slowly reveal a warm sense of sincerity towards Love. Lighting up the screen like bolts of lightning each time they appear,the ravishing Allison Hayes & Pamela Duncan each give eye- catching performances,with Hayes delivering each of boo-hiss witch Livia's whip-smart one- liners with a real curl of the lips,whilst Duncan gives Love a fragile sense of fear,as the undead arise.

This is a horror movie which seems to be unpretentious, and yet has some inventive quality about it.It's hard to say who the central character is, because while there are two main characters, many of them share the spotlight. A woman is hypnotized into reliving her past.To say more will "spoil" the film, I think, because there are many subplots going on here, along with the two chief plots.While it definitely goes for "unpretentious camp", particularly with the imp and the beautiful evil witch, there is more than meets the eye in the story. Devon purposely hams it up as the Devil, because we've seen Devon do some great acting work in movies like "The Comancheros", and here he just has a blast. In fact, the movie looks like a "Monster Mash" type of blast for the supporting cast.A few things ruined what could have been great. While a certain character was asking for a come uppance, the fact that she was an unarmed woman killed by the leading man was too much for any heterosexual male to enjoy. Women will like it, though, and most movies by Corman and his breed are made for women.Mixed feelings, but not a bad flick. It helps when everyone seems to be having a good time. It makes the film more of a joy to watch.

As a teen I saw a number of Roger Corman films, I rank The Undead as the best. It moved me and scared me in ways that I remember to this day.but in a good nature.It was a great film .I only wish had a copy now to share with my Kids.Simple Horror films are all we were shown when I was a teen and the plots were much the same, the monsters were killed in the end and we knew that we were safe, but now things are different and there will always be "Part 2" and that the monster,whoever it might be will be back and continue his rampage thru whatever person or town that he started in.I,also think the movies that were in Black and White presented the most shock effect, Something seemed to be lost when the Horror films were shot in color.