‘An experiment of terror! A result of horror!’
Creature of the Walking Dead is a 1965 horror film about a mad scientist who discovers the secret of eternal youth by draining blood from a young woman and is executed. His ancestor revives him and the terror continues…
The American movie was adapted by Jerry Warren (Face of the Screaming Werewolf; Curse of the Stone Hand; Teenage Zombies) using footage from a 1961 Mexican horror film La Marca del Muerto (“The Mark of Death”) directed by Fernando Cortés.
The screenplay for the 1961 Mexican original was by José María Fernández Unsáin (Madness from Terror; Museum of Horror; The Ship of Monsters).
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Jerry Warren’s direct contributions to the film were extensive editing, minimalist dubbing of the Mexican players in select scenes, voice-over narration of the majority of Mexican footage, and the filming and inclusion of several brief scenes and shots made by Warren in the United States with American actors.
Plot:
Doctor Malthus (Fernando Casanova), a 19th-century mad scientist, discovers the secret of eternal youth using transfusing the blood of young women into his subjects. He is hung for his crimes, but decades later, his grandson (who looks just like him) inherits his home and revives him from the dead. Malthus then resumes his rejuvenation activities using himself as the subject and enabled by his grandson, who procures healthy young victims they can bleed…
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