The Dead Dont Die
5.6 /10 1 Votes
Writer Robert Bloch Initial release 1975 Running time 1h 14m | 5.4/10 IMDb Duration Director Curtis Harrington Production design Robert Kinoshita Genres Horror, Thriller | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast George Hamilton (Don Drake), Ray Milland (Jim Moss / Varrick), Joan Blondell (Levenia), Linda Cristal (Vera LaValle), Ralph Meeker (Lieutenant Reardon), James McEachin (Frankie Specht)Similar movies Mad Max: Fury Road , John Wick , I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine , Gone Girl , Blackhat , Taken 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The dead don t die 1975
The Dead Don't Die is a 1975 American made-for-television neo-noir horror thriller film set in the 1930s, directed by Curtis Harrington from a teleplay by Robert Bloch, author of the novel Psycho. Bloch based his teleplay upon his own story of the same title that first appeared in Fantastic Adventures, July 1951. The film originally premiered on NBC on January 14, 1975.
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Bloch gives his opinion of the movie in his autobiography, Once Around the Bloch. "The Dead Don't Die. Maybe they don't, but the show did. Despite Curtis's casting of accomplished character actors, their supporting roles couldn't prop up the lead. And Ray Milland, who had given such a deftly paced performance in my script for Home Away from Home, merely plodded through his part here like a zombie without a deadline."
Plot
In 1934, Don Drake returns to Chicago after a long sea voyage and discovers that his brother has been convicted of murdering his wife. Drake is unable to save him from the electric chair, but he is convinced of his brother’s innocence and is determined to clear his name. His investigation leads him to the Loveland Ballroom, the scene of the murder, where his brother was involved in a dance marathon run by Jim Moss.
Drake begins seeing his dead brother walking the foggy streets. Drake kills a man named Perdido, who later climbs out of a coffin and attacks him. Police Lieutenant Reardon doesn’t believe Drake’s story, and Reardon later finds Perdido is alive and well. As Drake presses his investigation, he learns of a mystery man named Varrick, whom no one has ever seen and who might be using Haitian voodoo to bring people back from the dead.
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