The Dead Don't Die

This rather unknown '70s telefilm from the artisan Harrington can delight any non-demanding moviegoer thanks to the mix of genres and its sinister atmosphere. Set in the 30s, the film mixes gangster movies with classic terror in a plot that includes zombies, a sect that practices voodoo, the dance marathons typical of the Great Depression that one knows from movies like 'They Shoot Horses, Don't The?' (Sidney Pollack, 1969) and disturbing sequences in morgues, cemeteries and funeral homes. In addition to an execution in the electric chair at the beginning of the film.

To this set of morbid ingredients is added a cast led by George Halmiton, who plays a sailor obsessed with laundering the honor of his brother executed with capital punishment after being accused of murder, and which also includes Ray Milland, Linda Cristal. or Joan Blondell. All of them do their job with solvency in a film in which the mystery and creepy sensations remain until the end.