Wonderful character development!

What makes it different from others?

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

From the director of White Zombie! I thought this one would be more of the same, and was all jazzed up by the opening sequence, where a bunch of Cambodian zombies take a trench from the Bosch during World War One. Ah, I thought, this is going to be a good one, what with the zombies and the war and the intrigue and the murder of the zombie master. How could it fail? Well, how about bringing the whole film to a crashing halt by introducing a boring love triangle? That's what they do here, and I swear I had trouble distinguishing the two guys and who was being made to be jealous by the other guy and who ended up with the girl. I was nodding off at this bit. Seems they've all headed out to Cambodia to find out the zombie ritual for some reason, but you get little of that and loads of this trio standing around talking about relationships. And no zombies.Seems like the jealous guy's gone a bit whacko too, as he heads out on his own to a temple and follows a zombie in a scene which did make me laugh. In order to cut costs, it looks like the actors are just acting in front of photographs and projected images of the temple (and a swamp). When our jilted guy is following a zombie through the swamp, he's merely walking on the spot with added watery noises. That was funny at least, but still, it's the only entertainment I managed to get from the remainder of the film.Our jilted guy get's the zombie ritual and starts zombifying everybody (and I mean everybody) in order to get his girl back, but by this point, you won't be caring. Let me point out here that the zombies only actually do any damage when they're not zombies anymore – that's how crap this one is! This film was a real let down (especially if you've already watched White Zombie)…You might get some cheese kicks from the cheapness of it, but it's a cheat anyway.

After watching Revolt Of The Zombies starring future Academy Award winner Dean Jagger I was left with one burning question. How was a society that created these ultimate warrior fighting machines ever defeated in the first place? That's the question you'll be pondering if you take time to watch Revolt Of The Zombies. Towards the end of World War I, the French discover a cult from occupied Cambodia where these undead creatures who cannot be stopped with bullets form a brigade of monks who go over the top and dislodge the Hun.This scares the living fecal matter out of everyone concerned so an international expedition is formed to find out destroy the secret of these zombies so no nation can get their hands on it and rule the world.But we've got some dissent in those ranks. First is Snidely Whiplash villain Roy D'Arcy who murders the Buddhist monk who has the secret and second is Dean Jagger. Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac as we all know and he's determined to woo Dorothy Stone away from rival Robert Noland.I think you've got some idea how this comes out, especially since a race of zombies didn't conquer the world for one country. Dean Jagger as he got the Oscar for Twelve O'Clock High must have shuddered every time he thought about this film and the awful dialog he tried to give a spark of sincerity to.Moral of the story, you might make an ultimate warrior with the zombie potion and the zombie chant, but you can't make an ultimate love slave.

This is not really a zombie film, if we're defining zombies as the dead walking around. Here the protagonist, Armand Louque (played by an unbelievably young Dean Jagger), gains control of a method to create zombies, though in fact, his 'method' is to mentally project his thoughts and control other living people's minds turning them into hypnotized slaves. This is an interesting concept for a movie, and was done much more effectively by Fritz Lang in his series of 'Dr. Mabuse' films, including 'Dr. Mabuse the Gambler' (1922) and 'The Testament of Dr. Mabuse' (1933). Here it is unfortunately subordinated to his quest to regain the love of his former fiancée, Claire Duvall (played by the Anne Heche look alike with a bad hairdo, Dorothy Stone) which is really the major theme.The movie has an intriguing beginning, as Louque is sent on a military archaeological expedition to Cambodia to end the cult of zombies that came from there. At some type of compound (where we get great 30s sets and clothes) he announces his engagement to Claire, and then barely five minutes later, she gives him back his ring declaring her love for his pal, Clifford Greyson (Robert Noland). It's unintentionally funny the way they talk to each other without making eye contact. This would have been a great movie for 'Mystery Science Theater 3000', if they hadn't already roasted it.It's never shown how Louque actually learns the 'zombification' secret, but he then uses it to kill his enemies, create a giant army of rifle carrying soldiers and body guards. We won't see such sheer force of will until John Agar in 'The Brain From Planet Arous' (1957).Finally Claire consents to marry him if he will let Greyson live and return to America. Louque agrees, but actually turns him into one of his hypnotized slaves. On their wedding night he realizes that Claire will only begin to love him if he gives up his 'powers.' To gain her love, he does so, causing the 'revolt' of the title, in which all his slaves awaken and attack his compound and kill him. Greyson embraces Claire, and we seem to be at the end of a parable: "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." So really then, it's not that bad of a film, despite the low IMDb rating it currently has. On repeated viewings (?) one can see the artistry in the well formed script! Dean Jagger had yet to develop into a good actor, and is almost unrecognizable in his youngness -- is that really his own hair? We remember him more for his bald, old man roles in 'White Christmas' (1954), 'X The Unknown' (1956) and 'King Creole' (1958). The story borrows a lot of its basic themes from the Halperin brothers better, earlier film 'White Zombie' (1932) in which hapless Robert Frazier (as Charles Beaumont) uses 'zombification' to win the love of Madge Bellamy (as Madeline Parker).If you want real zombie movies (of which there are hundreds!) I'd start with 'White Zombie' (1932), 'King of the Zombies' (1941), 'I Walked with a Zombie' (1943), 'Night of the Living Dead' (1968), 'The Last Man on Earth' (1964) and its two remakes. In the modern era of classy films, there are 'Horror Express' (1972), 'The Serpent and the Rainbow' (1988), '28 Days Later' (2002) and its sequel, as well as many, many, others too numerous to mention.This one is not really a zombie film. Judging this movie on its own terms, it's more of a semi-Gothic romance. As such it ranks a little below some of Universal's bottom billed B horror movies of the late 30s and early 40s. So I'll give it a 5.

After going to Best Buy to buy the 50 Movie Pack Horror Classics 12-DVD Collection, I decided that the first movie to watch was this. This was just a random selection, and I didn't really know what this movie would be about except that it would contain zombies and an army. Well, this is incorrect. This movie is far from being about war, although you may see people in military uniforms. This movie is mostly a love story, and contains the plot of a mad man trying to win his girlfriend.This movie was very confusing, mainly because the plot switches continuously and the story doesn't stick with one character. You see the story of many characters, and that's too hard to shove in your brain. If this movie seems easy for whoever watches it, go right ahead. But, I just thought that there were too many characters.The acting is quite alright. Actually, it's excellent. This is quite hard to find in movies of this era. Well, not really.I don't really recommend this movie unless you are really bored.