
Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Karl Wagner uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. When things get out of hand, Wagner kills his henchmen, who wind up as zombies in the cellar of the soup kitchen.... (Full plot summary below)
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Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Karl Wagner uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. When things get out of hand, Wagner kills his henchmen, who wind up as zombies in the cellar of the soup kitchen.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThis cheapie thriller goes down like a cheap bottle of Thunderbird. |
| User ReviewJames HVery watchable, but just becomes another movie with it being too simple. It's got a story, and it's not boring, and has some interesting moments. Rating: NR My Rating: PG |
| User ReviewRichard DBela plays a professor of psychology who also runs a soup kitchen under an assumed identity. He uses the soup kitchen to recruit hobos and criminals to perform robberies for him. After a robbery is pulled off, he kills his recruits and turns the bodies over to an alcoholic doctor who works at the soup kitchen. The doctor turns them into zombies that he hides in the cellar of the kitchen. Things start to go wrong for him when one of his students goes undercover as a bum to research a paper for Lugosi's class, and ends up coming to the soup kitchen. Oh, and the student's girlfriend happens to volunteer at the kitchen. A cop is also involved. This little flick packs enough plot for 3 movies into a compact 1 hour running time. For this reason alone, it's one of Lugosi's better poverty row cheapies. |
| User ReviewTim HAll may not be as it seems when man who runs a soup kitchen recruits patrons to join his criminal gang and then kills them. Interesting thriller is not very scary and has few surprises, but is divertng enough. |
| User ReviewWes SOne of the better B flicks, with Lugosi and a good bit of tension. And reanimation. |
| User ReviewGreg WNot a bad Lugosi flick, all things considered. Lugosi operates a soup kitchen which is really a front for his criminal activities! He's pretty brutal, killing his partners just to create perfect crimes. He also, for whatever reason, moonlights as a professor. Noone realizes this until a young college student puts two and two together. There's some feeble acting by the supporting characters, but at least it's not a cheesy horror movie that Bela gets to do. |
| User ReviewAndy FEnjoyable crime drama. The DVD cover of my copy of the film is very misleading, but, other than that, it was a pretty good movie. Bela is terrific. Recommended for a free watch online. |
| User ReviewAj VHardly worth any special attention. It has a pretty basic plot and some of the acting from minor characters was atrocious (i.e., the jewellery store owner). But I enjoyed it to an extent. Plus, Bela Lugosi. |
| User ReviewPrivate UBela Lugosi is great in this otherwise less-than-average film. Favourite quote: "I told you to stop that cat from desecrating my graves!" |