Garden of the Dead

Garden of the Dead (also known as Tomb of the Undead) is a 1972 horror film directed by low-budget film director John Hayes and stars Phil Kenneally, Duncan McLeod, Lee Frost and Susan Charney.

Garden of the Dead
Directed byJohn Hayes
Written by
  • Daniel Cady
  • John Jones
Produced byDaniel Cady
Starring
CinematographyPaul Hipp
Edited byJohn Hayes
Production
company
Millenium Productions
Distributed byEntertainment Pyramid.
Release date
  • August 23, 1972 (1972-08-23)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

A group of prison inmates in a chain gang obtain some experimental formaldehyde, and get high off of it. They later try to escape and are shot dead. They are buried, and rise again to kill everyone in their path, and to find more formaldehyde from which to get high.

Cast
  • Phil Kenneally as Warden
  • Duncan McLeod as Dr. Saunders
  • John Dullaghan as Sgt. Burns
  • John Dennis as Jablonski
  • Susan Charney as Carol Johnson
  • Marland Proctor as Paul Johnson
  • Tony Vorno as Mitchell
  • Lee Frost as McGee
  • Virgil Frye as Braddock
  • Jerome Guardino as Gravedigger

Production

The AFI mentions that "some modern sources claim that the film was shot in ten days in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles County" from May to late June 1972.[1]

Release

The film premiered in August 1972 by Entertainment Pyramid,[2] and was later distributed on VHS by Troma Entertainment. In 2004, it was featured on a 3-in-1 Troma DVD.[3] In 2006, Troma released it as part of a 15-in-1 pack.[4]

Reception

Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle said, "This scruffy low-budget production anticipates the pointless and depressing amateur zombie movies of the early '90s by almost twenty years."[5] Glenn Kay, who wrote Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide, said, "It's all incredibly silly, campy stuff."[6] On Evil Dread, the website rated Garden of the Dead 2/10 stars.[7]

Bloody Disgusting included the film's poster in their list of the best posters for bad films.[8]

See also

References
  1. "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2023-10-02.
  2. "Garden of the Dead". American Film Institute. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
  3. "Troma Triple B-Header, Vol. 3 - Garden of the Dead Zombie Collection DVD". MovieWeb. Archived from the original on 2015-02-17. Retrieved 2015-02-16.
  4. Condit, Jon (2006-10-02). "DVD Release List: More of What You Want". Dread Central. Retrieved 2015-02-16.
  5. Dendle, Peter (2001). The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia. McFarland & Company. pp. 71–72. ISBN 978-0-7864-9288-6.
  6. Kay, Glenn (2008). Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide. Chicago Review Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-1-55652-770-8.
  7. "Evil Dread - Garden of the Dead 1974 movie review". EvilDread.com. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2015-02-16.
  8. Eggertsen, Chris (2010-01-27). "It's Trickery! 10 Cool Posters for 10 Very Bad Movies!". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 2015-02-16.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.