
On the Franco-Austrian Frontier during WW I, an oriental priest, chaplain of a French colonial regiment, is condemned to life imprisonment because he possesses the power of turning men into zombies. As the priest,in his prison cell, is preparing to burn the parchment containing the location of the secret formula, Colonel Mazovia kills the priest and takes the partially-burned parchment. Fade to after the war to an expedition of representatives from all the Allied countries (o... (Full plot summary below)
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On the Franco-Austrian Frontier during WW I, an oriental priest, chaplain of a French colonial regiment, is condemned to life imprisonment because he possesses the power of turning men into zombies. As the priest,in his prison cell, is preparing to burn the parchment containing the location of the secret formula, Colonel Mazovia kills the priest and takes the partially-burned parchment. Fade to after the war to an expedition of representatives from all the Allied countries (only those with colonial interests it appears) being sent to Cambodia to find and destroy forever the Secret of the Zombies. The group includes Colonel Mazovia (somewhat akin to sending the fox to guard the hen house); a student of dead languages, Armand Louque; Englishman Clifford Grayson; and General Duval and his daughter Claire. Armand falls in love with Claire, who accepts his proposal of marriage in order to spite Clifford whom she really loves. Later, when Claire, following an accident, runs to Cliff for comfort, Armand breaks the engagement, leaving her free to marry Cliff. Further accidents, caused by Mazovia, results in the natives refusing to work and the expedition returns to Pnom Penh. Armand fins a clue which he had overlooked before and returns to Angkor against orders. After viewing an ancient ceremony at the temple, Armand follows one of the servants of the high priest out of the temple, through a swamp, to a bronze doorway. When the servant leaves, Armand goes through the door to a room paneled in bronze, with an idol holding a gong in one hand in the middle of the room. He accidentally strikes the gong, and a panel in the wall opens revealing a small metal tablet. He translates the inscription and realizes that it is the secret for which they have all been looking. He alone now has the power to make zombies out of people, beginning with a practice run on his servant before taking up that little matter of the fickle Claire. Armand is not one to be trifled with.
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| Projection BoothRob HumanickA barely-there soap opera with superstitious underpinnings thrown in for good measure. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonThe story is crude and inexplicable, the acting stagey, the tone completely gaudy and not even a tiny bit horrifying. |
| User ReviewMahir TDidn't your mommy & daddy tell you there is no such things as monster/zombies? |
| User ReviewJohn CRevolt of the Zombies could be the zombie movie version of A Tale of Two Cities. A timid man who loses the woman he loves to his friend. He gains ultimate power over people during an exploration to Angkor Wat. Showing that ultimate power corrupts absolutely, can he bring himself back from the edge? A terrific story. |
| User ReviewCharles PApparently, zombie used to refer to any person turned into a mindless automaton via black magic or other mind control techniques. So when a modern-day zombie fan such as myself tunes into one of these old flicks with old school zombies, we are invariably disappointed. I don't want to knock this movie too much because it wasn't Beast of Yucca Flats-bad, but it lacked the atmosphere made some of these older films spooky. There really isn't anything scary here, and the plot was paper thin. |
| User ReviewBrian SDirected by Victor Halperin of "White Zombie" fame, this follow-up to his better-known film is even worse. It's hard to tell whether no effort was made to transition from scene to scene or if there is material missing from the version now available, but either way what we have is a disjointed flick that left me saying, "Next scene!" every time the screen faded to black. The acting tempts one to think that the cast themselves were the zombies! A team of archaeologists is in Cambodia during WWI. They captured a local priest who is the last man alive who knows the secret of making zombies, a labor force previously tapped to construct the temple complex at Angkor through the auspices of the three-eyed god Siva. As the French general proclaims loudly, however, "This secret could be a threat to the entire white race!" The priest ends up and and a nerdy archeologist instead rediscovers the secret, using it to get revenge against the woman who scorns him and the other members of the expedition when he gets fired. Before you know it (because it's not shown how it happens in the movie), the nerdy archeologist has assembled an army of Cambodian zombies and has everyone else under his control. He's about to conquer the world... but, well, this was made in the 1930's and, as we all know, love conquered all up to about 1939. The zombies here are just people who've been hypnotized. Nothing even vaguely scary ever happens, and there's never a zombie revolt. There's a reason that you've never heard of this flick! Watch it for the examples of early 20th century racism and sexism with which it is laced, but not so much for horror entertainment. |
| User ReviewAndrew SThis movie had an ok storyline, its not your average zombies comming out of the grave and slaughtering the living for thier brains. In Revolt of the zombies its all about voodoo, and mind control. Its mostly about finding out how to use this power, then when one man does, he uses it to get the girl, power, and an army all of his own. This is not a movie i would watch again. |
| User ReviewJustin WUn film de zombies - pas dans le sens ou Romero l'entend : des personnes "hypnotisees", donc vivantes, mais transformees en esclaves sans volonte propre. La transformation (pas en zombie, le changement de caractere) du personnage principal est interessante, mais le film est un peu trop explicatif et moral que pour etre vraiment captivant. Cela dit, il ne fait que 65 min. |
| User ReviewDanielle Sdon't expect much from the zombies. like most pre Romero era film the zombies are slaves not flesheaters. also important lesson to take away. ppl will come after you if you enslave them unwillingly |
| User ReviewDrew Rweird zombie movie with cheezy special FX...and bad acting...typical b-movie |