***SPOILERS*** One of the last of the Zombie crazed 1940's Zombie movies has former undertaker and later insane lunatic Ormand Murks,Ian Keith, come back from the dead as a combination Zombie/Vampire who craves blood, his blood type and no one else's,to stay alive. This has Murks raid hospital blood banks and with the help of his almost Zombie like brother Fred, Earle Hodgins, get him the blood that he so desperately needs. It's when Murks turns to murder in murdering the man in charge of the hospital blood bank Dr. Rufus Maynard, Charles Trowbridge, who was about to report him to the police that Fred in not wanting to be implicated in Dr. Maynard's murder called it quits only to end up being murdered, and sucked dry of his blood, by an outraged and deranged Murks.
To keep the story going and prevent the audience from falling asleep we have some comedy relief in the persons of Dr. Terry Evens, Robert Livingston, and his afraid of her own shadow nurse Susan Drake, Lorna Gray, who turn detectives in solving the string of murders blood draining and embalming victims that the crazed Ormand Murks is responsible for. There's also for good measures the Keystone Kop like police lead by the clueless Chief Inspector Rayan, Charles Cane, and his two bumbling assistants detectives Blake & Hendricks, Thomas E. Jackson & Leroy Mason, who make both Terry & Susan's job of tracking down and finding Murks that much more difficult.
***SPOILERS*** Despite what seemed like him having supernatural powers Murks wasn't bullet proof which proved to be his Achilles Heel that in the end did the crazy guy in. That's after he captured and hypnotized Susan and forced her to kill Terry who was on his way, together with the police, to capturing and bringing him in. Being as mindless as he was crazy Murks, who was armed with a handgun, ordered Susan to shoot Terry who by hesitating for just a moment gave to police all the time that they needed to plug him themselves.
To keep the story going and prevent the audience from falling asleep we have some comedy relief in the persons of Dr. Terry Evens, Robert Livingston, and his afraid of her own shadow nurse Susan Drake, Lorna Gray, who turn detectives in solving the string of murders blood draining and embalming victims that the crazed Ormand Murks is responsible for. There's also for good measures the Keystone Kop like police lead by the clueless Chief Inspector Rayan, Charles Cane, and his two bumbling assistants detectives Blake & Hendricks, Thomas E. Jackson & Leroy Mason, who make both Terry & Susan's job of tracking down and finding Murks that much more difficult.
***SPOILERS*** Despite what seemed like him having supernatural powers Murks wasn't bullet proof which proved to be his Achilles Heel that in the end did the crazy guy in. That's after he captured and hypnotized Susan and forced her to kill Terry who was on his way, together with the police, to capturing and bringing him in. Being as mindless as he was crazy Murks, who was armed with a handgun, ordered Susan to shoot Terry who by hesitating for just a moment gave to police all the time that they needed to plug him themselves.