Poster for the movie King of the Zombies

Monogram Monday: King of the Zombies (1941)

The comic contribution of Mantan Moreland is the highlight of this otherwise rather lackluster Monogram horror movie. In it, a plane driven off course in a storm makes a crash landing on a small Caribbean island. There, the fliers — Mac (Dick Purcell), Bill (John Archer), and Bill’s valet, Jeff (Mantan Moreland) — find shelter in the home of Dr. Miklos Sangre (Henry Victor). The Viennese doctor lives with his wife Alyce (Patricia Stacey), who suffers from some strange disease, and her niece, Barbara (Joan Woodbury). Mac and Bill soon become suspicious of Dr. Sangre, and Jeff discovers that the doctor is controlling zombies, though he has difficulty at first convincing Mac and Bill of this. The trio find that something more than mad science or black magic lies behind the sinister happenings on the island.

  Mildly recommended. Otto judiciously thinks this movie is OK.

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