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Eyeless dead of The Earth Dies Screaming
A short British science fiction film in which invading robots kill people by touch and raise them as mindless, eyeless walkers. Peter Dendle calls it an obvious precursor to Night of the Living Dead. It was directed by Terence Fisher, the first of three science fiction films he made away from Hammer.1
First appeared
1964
Released 1964Source work
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
Terence FisherMade in
United Kingdom
What causes it
Something from outer space
Invading robots kill humans by touch and then reanimate the bodies.How you become one
A person killed by a robot's touch gets up again as a blank-eyed servant.
Intelligence
Mindless
Weak spots
- gunshot
When did it first appear?
Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1964Released 1964
field notes
What the sources say
1
The reanimated are described as eyeless1
2
Unlike the bulletproof robots, the zombies can be shot dead1
3
The robots drop when their transmitter tower is destroyed1
4
Peter Dendle calls the film an obvious precursor to Night of the Living Dead1
5
Runs only 62 minutes and was scored by composer Elisabeth Lutyens1
Sources
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Same era: 1900 to 1967
Legendre's zombiesWhite Zombie (1932)
The resurrected dead of Plan 9Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
CarrefourI Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Cornish zombies of The Plague of the ZombiesThe Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Plague victims of The Last Man on EarthThe Last Man on Earth (1964)
Corpses of Invisible InvadersInvisible Invaders (1959)