Garden of the Dead

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 Duncan McLeod, Lee Frost and Susan Charney.

Garden of the Dead
Directed by	John Hayes
Produced by	Daniel Cady
Written by	Daniel Cady John Jones
Starring	Duncan McLeod Lee Frost Susan Charney
Cinematography	Paul Hipp
Edited by	John Hayes
Production company	Millenium Productions
Distributed by	Troma Entertainment
Release date	August 23, 1972
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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

• Philip Kenneally
• Duncan McLeod
• John Dullaghan as Sgt. Burns
• John Dennis
• Susan Charney
• Marland Proctor as Paul Johnson
• Tony Vorno
• Jerome Guardino
• Lee Frost
• Eric Stern
• Virgil Frye
• Phil Hoover

Release

The film premiered in August 1972,[1] and was later distributed on VHS by Troma Entertainment. In 2004, it was featured on a 3-in-1 Troma DVD.[2] In 2006, Troma released it as part of a 15-in-1 pack.[3]

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."[4] Glenn Kay, who wrote Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide, said, "It's all incredibly silly, campy stuff."[5] On Evil Dread, the website rated Garden of the Dead 2/10 stars.[6]

Bloody Disgusting included the film's poster in their list of the best posters for bad films.[7]

See also

• List of American films of 1972

References

1. "Garden of the Dead". American Film Institute. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
2. "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.
3. Condit, Jon (2006-10-02). "DVD Release List: More of What You Want". Dread Central. Retrieved 2015-02-16.
4. Dendle, Peter (2001). The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia. McFarland & Company. pp. 71–72. ISBN 978-0-7864-9288-6.
5. Kay, Glenn (2008). Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide. Chicago Review Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-1-55652-770-8.
6. "Evil Dread - Garden of the Dead 1974 movie review". EvilDread.com. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2015-02-16.
7. Eggertsen, Chris (2010-01-27). "It's Trickery! 10 Cool Posters for 10 Very Bad Movies!". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 2015-02-16.

External links

• Garden of the Dead at IMDb