Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)

Directed by

Sidney J. Furie

Genre

horror film, zombie film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young biochemist returns to his Cornish hometown believing he can bring people back from the dead by transplanting hearts from living victims into the corpses of those he deems worthy. His experiments turn deadly as he targets local people for his gruesome work.

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What happens

Doctor Blood's Coffin is a 1961 British horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie from a screenplay co-written by Nathan Juran, and starring Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, and Ian Hunter. It follows young biochemist Dr Peter Blood (Moore), who returns to his hometown in Cornwall with the belief that he can selectively restore life by transplanting the living hearts of 'undeserving' people into dead people who 'deserve' to live. The film is significant for being one of the first two zombie films to be shot in colour, the other being the obscure 1961 American film The Dead One, and for its early portrayal of zombies as homicidal rotting cadavers. It was released in the UK by United Artists on February 20, 1961. In the US, it was released on April 26, 1961 on a double bill with The Snake Woman, which was also directed by Furie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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