What happens when film's most legendary B-horror director turns his unsubtle eye to the zombie genre? You get Tales of Terror, one of many Roger Corman films loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe stories. This anthology film (written by the iconic horror and scifi writer Richard Matheson) is packed with three separate creepy stories, and one of them features a gruesome strain of zombie that doesn't easily fit into our zombie categories! Join John, Andy, and Producer Brad as they dissect their first, but probably not last, Corman zombie film.
Show Notes:
AFI Catalog entry for Tales of Terror.
New York Times review of Tales of Terror and Burn, Witch, Burn double bill.
Film Snob short on American International Pictures from Vanity Fair.
Library of Congress bulletin on Confucius with mention of his family tree.
Debra Paget's Snake Dance from The Indian Tomb (1959).
Theme music composed by Neil Dube.
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