Review of The Undead

The Undead (1957)
6/10
Cheesy, but not bad.
23 January 2005
A smug researcher of psychic phenomena picks a prostitute up off the street and, through hypnosis, causes her to go back in time and re-live her previous incarnations. Turns out the young lady was falsely accused of witchcraft back in a foggy medieval forest of Long Ago and beheaded. However, her present consciousness and the doctors interference cause her to escape her prison and alter her future. If she does not die at the headsmans ax, she will never be reincarnated. Her hypnotist then decides to go back into time with her, and convince her former self to remain, and avoid being reincarnated as a hooker. But there are others who would convince her otherwise, including an evil but beautiful witch, her lover Pendragon, an old hag and Satan Himself. Only she can decide, and she has to make a choice before the sun rises.

This is actually a pretty good story. It suffers some from a low budget, cheap sets and some slightly muddy plot points, but it's entertaining. Alison Hayes as the curvaceously gorgeous, but evil witch is a high point, along with Billy Barty who plays her familiar wicked imp. It's better than most of the B-movie fare that was being mass produced at the same time. Cute and engaging, slightly morbid but mostly harmless.
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