SCORE! SCORE! SCORE!!!!

Today while we were running around downtown, I stopped in the used game/dvd/cd store. Sometimes you can find some decent stuff in there, especially out-of-print DVDs. But anyway, somebody too dumb to live sold the Blue Underground BLIND DEAD box set back to the store! And the best part is the store didn't know what they had and had it marked at $30!!! Man, I've been hearing about these movies for forever. In case you haven't, they're all about the undead corpses of the Templars who have had their eyes burned out, so they can't see, but rely on hearing their victims. I know what we're gonna be watching all next week!

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943)

Way before George Romero made zombies the flesh-eating ghouls we all know and love, the word “zombie” meant walking corpses working under the rule of a Voodoo priest. And of all the early horror movies dealing with zombies, this is one of the best. It’s all about this woman who is hired as a nurse to take care of the wife of a Caribbean sugar plantation’s owner. The wife is in a semi-comatose state, basically sleepwalking, supposedly due to a tropical fever. The nurse soon suspects that the wife has been cursed and is a living zombie. She tries to cure her, even though she’s falling for the husband the whole time. There’s also some intrigue with the husband’s brother, who is also in love with the zombie wife. Jacques Tourneur directs everything with a creepy atmosphere and his typical restraint, and the performances are all really convincing. Carrefour is scary as hell! If you’re tired of the flesh-ripping and gore-spouting zombie flicks of today, give this a shot.