The Living Dead (1932) review - Dusty, creepy, and delightfully weird
If you have a soft spot for dusty, black-and-white German weirdness from the early thirties, The Living Dead is absolutely worth your time tonight. But if you get annoyed by scratchy audio and actors who gesture like they are trying to flag down a busy taxi, you will probably hate it. 🚕
It is basically a mashup of Ed...
The movie The Living Dead was directed by Richard Oswald.
The Living Dead was released in the year 1932.
The Living Dead has an IMDb rating of 6.2 out of 10.
The Living Dead is a movie from Germany.
The Living Dead is categorised as Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror in the cult cinema archive at Dbcult.
The Living Dead features Ilse Fürstenberg, Michael von Newlinsky, Ferdinand Hart, Natascha Silvia.
The screenplay for The Living Dead was written by Richard Oswald, Jenõ Szatmári, Robert Louis Stevenson.
If you enjoy The Living Dead, you might also like Jettchen Gebert's Story (1918), Des Goldes Fluch (1917), Es werde Licht! 1. Teil (1917), Dämon und Mensch (1915).
Yes, The Living Dead (1932) is featured in the Dbcult archive as a curated cult cinema title, known for its Comedy and Sci-Fi qualities.
A bizarre 1932 German horror-comedy mashup where a mad scientist hides his wife behind a brick wall, sparking a frantic chase by a very quirky reporter.
Synopsis
A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down.
Review Excerpt
"If you have a soft spot for dusty, black-and-white German weirdness from the early thirties, The Living Dead is absolutely worth your time tonight. But if you get annoyed by scratchy audio and actors who gesture like they are trying to flag down a busy taxi, you will probably hate it. 🚕
It is basically a mashup of Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson stories, all shoved together by director Richard Oswald.
The plot kicks off with a mad scientist who kills his wife and walls her up in hi..."
