The joy of B: Sam Katzman’s 1950s horrors
Sony’s Icons of Horror Collection: Sam Katzman DVD set presents an entertaining selection of low-budget genre movies from the mid-’50s. While they’d never be mistaken for art, they’re undeniably […]
Review: Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
Director: Edward L. Cahn
Cast: Gregg Palmer, Autumn Russell, Marjorie Eaton, Joel Ashley, Allison Hayes,
Gregg Palmer
Autumn Russell
Marjorie Eaton
Joel Ashley
Allison Hayes
Plot: American tycoon George Harrison, his beautiful wife, Mona, and deep-sea diver Jeff Clark are off the coast of Africa hoping to salvage a fortune in diamonds at the bottom of the sea near the voodoo-haunted island of Mora Tau, and are joined by an English girl named Jan. The treasure is reported to be guarded by Zombies, walking dead-men doomed to roam the earth until men stop trying to find the sacred treasure. Here, they are walking the sea-bottom, and there is a large conflict of interest between them and the treasure-seekers.
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