What's this about?

Lately, it seems like many of the movies/shows are just a rehash or reboot of things that have already been done. And so I started to dive into the past. It's been fun, but I find myself losing track of which ones I’ve seen and whether or not I enjoyed them. Sometimes the titles themselves just don't tell me enough to remember.

I wouldn’t have voluntarily watched a lot of these movies when I was younger. It’s strange how interests change. That goes for what I read, too. I have another blog that explores books. I’m mostly reading older fiction and memoirs, and some of the books have led me to movies/shows and vice versa. In those cases, I may post the book review over here as well.

There will be spoilers, which is different than my book reviews. That’s mostly because I want to have enough information to help me remember what I’ve seen. I’m getting older. The brain doesn’t cooperate like it used to. What can I say? The gray hairs are catching up with me!

Sunday, November 23, 2025

King of the Zombies - 1941

This title was next up on the horror film list. We had my younger daughter here for Thanksgiving break, so we made her suffer with us.

A plane is flying over a Caribbean island when it receives a strange signal and crashes. They trudge through the jungle and find a pretty swanky house. Inside is an "Austrian" doctor who is really racist and rude. The crash victims have an African American "servant," and the doctor is insisting Jeff stay below stairs. And that's where he sees the zombies!

Unfortunately, no one believes him. It takes a while for the other morons to get on board that Jeff is actually seeing something. Later, one of the guys magically gets a jungle fever and dies off screen. You know what that means? ZOMBIE!

But they're really not. Everyone has been hypnotized. Also, the doctor is a Nazi that has kidnapped an Admiral. He's trying to voodoo link the information out of the Admiral's head. The natives sing a song about cocoa beans to try and establish the link between the Admiral and the doctor's niece, but Jeff and one of the guys shows up to thwart him. The dead zombie guy resists his hypnotism and backs the doctor into a pit. He takes a bunch of bullets, but I guess he's fine.

This movie was super strange, but it wasn't the worst thing we've seen lately. It was kind of funny to hear my daughter comment the movie was bad, and Mom and I were trying to explain to her it wasn't that bad. She just had no idea. It's amazing how your expectations change after you watch a certain amount of garbage. Big shoutout to Dick Purcell (Muffin Top Captain America) who starred as the dead man/zombie hypnotized shot guy.

Jeff was a hero and a doofus. He wouldn't scream at a time when others would be able to see the zombies, he went along with the doctor when he knew the man was a problem, and he acted like he was hypnotized until the cook lady gave him some salt and told him he was fine. But he was also responsible for alerting the others to the wife wandering around as a zombie. If nothing else, we got a catchy new tune for our voodoo library. We already had "Cherry Wine," and now we have "Cocoa Beans, I Need Cocoa Beans!"

Side note: Were the "zombies" sending out the radio signals?

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