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Dr. Sangre's zombies
A low-budget comedy-thriller from Monogram in which a doctor controls zombies through voodoo. The zombies are incidental to the plot, as one historian noted, and are released when their master dies. The film earned an Academy Award nomination for its score.1
First appeared
1941
Released 1941Source work
King of the Zombies (1941)
Jean YarbroughMade in
USA
What causes it
Sorcery
A doctor controls zombies through voodoo.Weak spots
- death of the controller releases them
When did it first appear?
Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1941Released 1941
field notes
What the sources say
1
When the doctor dies, every zombie is released from his spell1
2
Made by Monogram to cash in on The Ghost Breakers1
3
Bela Lugosi was announced for the villain, then Peter Lorre was approached; Henry Victor got the part1
4
Its score was nominated for an Academy Award1
5
Followed by Revenge of the Zombies (1943), with Mantan Moreland returning1
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)