According to the plot summary this film is set in remote 19th Century Scotland but some reason the signs on the village train station read Skopje and the characters refer to the location as Skopje which I assure you is not a Scottish sounding place . The characters too don't have Scottish sounding names either and I can assure you I've never met a Scotsman called Igor . This mistaken geography is matched by the title of the movie which is known under several different titles one of which is given as the title on this website which is misleading because Dracula doesn't appear but the living dead do . Well done IMDb because the zombies don't appear until the final third and the plotting revolves around this plot turn . Perhaps if the title was the oft used THE HANGING WOMAN it might have made for a better film ?
This Spanish film plays out very much like one of those British Hammer horrors with Gothic overtones . A stranger arrives in a small village and he's met by locals who are the usual types who mutter " A stranger sir ? We don't get strangers here sir " . As it stands the protagonist finds himself investigating a mysterious death and if you know the film as THE HANGING WOMAN some mystery is built up unlike if you go in to the film knowing it by the title on this page and it's strange watching zombies stumble around as if they've taken an overdose of methadone rather than the Olympic sprinters they had become after 28 DAYS LATER but I guess the film works better as a horror film than the big budget zombie movie starring Brad Pitt
Two things let the film down . One is the rather ill paced structure where not a lot happens throughout much of the running time but for a film trying to build up an air of mystery this is understandable . The second thing is being a dubbed Spanish film many of the accents are laughable with a butler sounding like he's dubbed by Dick Van Dyke from MARY POPPINS . Walt Disney meets zombie horror ! What's not to like ?
This Spanish film plays out very much like one of those British Hammer horrors with Gothic overtones . A stranger arrives in a small village and he's met by locals who are the usual types who mutter " A stranger sir ? We don't get strangers here sir " . As it stands the protagonist finds himself investigating a mysterious death and if you know the film as THE HANGING WOMAN some mystery is built up unlike if you go in to the film knowing it by the title on this page and it's strange watching zombies stumble around as if they've taken an overdose of methadone rather than the Olympic sprinters they had become after 28 DAYS LATER but I guess the film works better as a horror film than the big budget zombie movie starring Brad Pitt
Two things let the film down . One is the rather ill paced structure where not a lot happens throughout much of the running time but for a film trying to build up an air of mystery this is understandable . The second thing is being a dubbed Spanish film many of the accents are laughable with a butler sounding like he's dubbed by Dick Van Dyke from MARY POPPINS . Walt Disney meets zombie horror ! What's not to like ?