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ADDITION: Kino Blu-ray (November 2022): Kino have transferred Steve Sekely's Revenge of the Zombies to Blu-ray. I found the 1080P image quality to be surprisingly strong - exceptionally clean with layered contrast and sporadic grain. The Mack Stengler (Leave It to BeaverS) cinematography is unremarkable. I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of the single-layered image quality. It has a massively high bitrate for the format.  

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On their Blu-ray, Kino use a DTS-HD Master dual-mono track (24-bit) in the original English language. Revenge of the Zombies has a few aggressive moments but there is some minor hiss although dialogue is reasonably clear. The music director was Edward J. Kay (Mr. Wong series, Highway Dragnet, The Ape), with supportive music sounding dramatic in accentuating the story. The lossless transfer adds to the film quite adequately. Kino offer optional English subtitles on their Region 'A'-locked Blu-ray.

The Kino Blu-ray offers a new commentary by film historians Tom Weaver (They Fought in the Creature Features: Interviews with 23 Classic Horror, Science Fiction and Serial Stars) and, eventually interceded briefly by, Gary D. Rhodes (author of White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film, The Birth of the American Horror Film.) It starts by quoting Denis Gifford's A Pictorial History of Horror Movies in that "Of all the B-monsters, the Zombie was the favorite". Tom tells us that zombies made their film debut in 1932's White Zombie, followed by 1941’s King of the Zombies - a semi-remake of Revenge of the Zombies. He talks about how the film does not resemble its predecessor although much is similar (ex. Madame Sul-Te-Wan is in both films.) He talks about the career of John Carradine, Mantan Moreland and Gale Storm as well as Steve Sekely's movies and 1940s Ghost Breakers with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard and he quotes original reviews for Revenge of the Zombies. Gary discusses the usual location of the Caribbean for 'Zombie' films (ex. Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie) and how war efforts reflected the choice of locale not meaning to offend or ostracize allies (negotiations with the Office of War Information and the Bureau of Motion Pictures) as well as the Nazi Party references a mentioning Norman Ohler's book Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich. It's a very complete commentary - I enjoyed it. There are trailers for Supernatural, The Mad Doctor, The Spider Woman Strikes Back, Doctor Cyclops and House of the Long Shadows but none for Revenge of the Zombies.

Steve Sekely's Revenge of the Zombies is part of the primordial soup of 'walking dead films'. It also make the presumption that the audience knows what a 'zombie' is - as there is no definitive explanation - only its value in robotic, unfeeling, potential Third Reich soldiers. "True dat". This has scene-chewer extraordinaire John Carradine (Billy the Kid Versus Dracula, Captive Wild Woman) and occasional Noir-gal Gale Storm (Abandoned, Between Midnight and Dawn, The Underworld Story) carrying the film to higher levels. Cheapo Monogram Studios has an 'under-expressed Nazi scientist creating an army of zombies' yarn that has a pleasing genre feel. Bottom line; even Nazi zombies require freedom of choice. It's low level but no where near as bad as the complainers make out. The Kino Blu-ray has Sekely's Revenge of the Zombies looking exceptionally strong and a wonderful commentary. You know who you are - I enjoyed it beyond expectations.

Gary Tooze