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Curse of the Undead [VHS]

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When I was a kid, I used to watch the Super Scary movies every Saturday night, at 11:30 p.m., and when this one came up, I had no idea that it was taking place out in the Old West.

I stayed up and watched it and was surprised that they put together a decent story about a vampire stalking a ranch. Years later, when it came on the Sci-Fi channel, I thought enough of it to tape it and add it to my collection.

Great horror film (also known as "Mark of the West) coming at the end of Universal's Horror/Scifi period. There are no giant bats, howling dogs, torch bearing villagers or black capes in this unique vampire tale. There is, however, an eerie, hair rising score by Irvin Gertz and a nontraditional background for a horror film. Taking place in the old, wild west we are introduced to a vampire, played by Michael Pate, who can walk around bathed in the full strength of the sun (without erupting into flames) and only uses a coffin for those occasional naps.

I have had this old movie in my vhs vault for a while and it is one of my favorite old horror movies. It is akin to Billy the Kid vs. Dracula in that it is a Vampire / Western. They didn't make too many of those at any time in movie history but these two were great. The Acting is par for this kind of movie as is the plot. Unlike Billy the Kid vs. Dracula the vampire in this one is a quick draw gunslinger who isn't too worried even if he does get shot because hey, He's a vampire! What better life could there be in the old west. His eyesight isn't too good in the day though. This movie comes from a great moment in movie history when actors actually had to act because they didn't have 50 million dollars worth of CGI's or special effects. Great Movie.

If your into Universal Horror then you'll love this.
It's a mix a horror and western but very well made.
Eric Fleming is great as the sheriff and Michael
Palin is in many universal movies as the 2nd bad
man or evil guy. He's perfect as the vampire who
comes into town and goes on his blood thristy
killing spree. Disguised as a gunman he can't
be killed until the Sheriff discovers his secret.
Why this isn't on dvd I can't figure out. I have
had the dvd for years and watch often. I see the
price for video is quite expensive so I'd look
for cheaper copy or dvd copy. I have seen them.

Great movie for fans of Eric Fleming! Eric is fantastic as usual! All fans of the Rawhide series should see this movie! The story is great and the entire movie is superior to a lot of movies they are making today (2004) because there weren't a lot of special effects so they focused more of character development and storyline. The issues of morality and the bold interactions in this film are simliar to those seen in the Rawhide series. A lot of classis old west confrontations in this movie. This should be on DVD.

I'm giving this movie 5 stars because for its time it was great. Plus it shows Eric Fleming in his unpolished but still spectacular beginnings, shortly before his rising talent was cut short by a freak accident (drowning). It was a tragic loss of someone who certainly might have equalled John Wayne or Clint Eastwood (after all, he was the REAL star of Rawhide).

A vampire western?! Yep. And it works.

It features a non-traditional vampire who is actually closer to the old legends than the vast majority of movie vampires. It features a sympathetic villain who nevertheless undeniably deserves what happens to him. It has an interesting conflict between good and evil in which it is obvious where the champions of both stand while also showing that neither is a paragon, making them quite human.

I like this movie. A lot. I've told friends about it. Now that I've bought the tape I can show it to them. :-)

I picked up this "classic" at a thrift store for a buck. Such a deal I got!

This is one weird little western. I am a horror movie fan and was surprised I had never heard of it. It's easy to see why, though. It is a gothic horror story--a pretty standard one, really--that takes place in a traditional western setting.

My wife and I were rooting for the vampire to get the girl, though we both knew that was not going to happen. It was just a matter of HOW the preacher was going to kill the undead gunslinger.

Well worth your time.

Altho not a good film, this effort from the very end of Universal's SF/horror cycle deserves a footnote for establishing, more or less, the minor sub-genre of the horror western. (There actually had been a few films in the Thirties which fit into this category, but they were forgotten by virtually everyone until being released on home video.) Michael Pate (a sort of sinister James Coburn) is effective in the role of a vampire menacing folks on a ranch. This particular vampire is perfectly capable of walking around in the sunshine (hey, no fair!) and the fact that the climactic destruction of the vampire takes place in broad daylight greatly lessens the film's effect. Worth a look for horror fans, however.

In 1959 I was watching the new TV series RAWHIDE, and when I read in the newspaper Eric Fleming starred in this film, I went to see it. I fell in love with Eric, and from that day on, I collected everything I saw on him. The feelings all came back when I saw the video at Suncoast in 1996. I bought every copy they had. The film was as good as any other Universal horror flicks. I really paid no attention to the plot, as I was too busy looking at Eric!