| Garden of the Dead | |
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| Directed by | John Hayes |
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| Produced by | Daniel Cady |
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| Cinematography | Paul Hipp |
| Edited by | John Hayes |
| Production company | Millenium Productions |
| Distributed by | Entertainment Pyramid. |
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| Running time | 59 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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.
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.
Release
The film premiered in August 1972 by Entertainment Pyramid, and was later distributed on VHS by Troma Entertainment. In 2004, it was featured on a 3-in-1 Troma DVD. In 2006, Troma released it as part of a 15-in-1 pack.
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." Glenn Kay, who wrote Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide, said, "It's all incredibly silly, campy stuff." On Evil Dread, the website rated Garden of the Dead 2/10 stars.
Bloody Disgusting included the film's poster in their list of the best posters for bad films.
See also
References
- "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2023-10-02.
- "Garden of the Dead". American Film Institute. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
- "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.
- Condit, Jon (2006-10-02). "DVD Release List: More of What You Want". Dread Central. Retrieved 2015-02-16.
- Dendle, Peter (2001). The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia. McFarland & Company. pp. 71–72. ISBN 978-0-7864-9288-6.
- Kay, Glenn (2008). Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide. Chicago Review Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-1-55652-770-8.
- "Evil Dread - Garden of the Dead 1974 movie review". EvilDread.com. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2015-02-16.
- Eggertsen, Chris (2010-01-27). "It's Trickery! 10 Cool Posters for 10 Very Bad Movies!". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 2015-02-16.
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