FilmVampire Classic Monsters Gothic

Curse of the Undead1959

Name: Curse of the Undead
Genre: Vampire, Classic Monsters, Gothic
Released: 1959-12-01
Rating: 6.1

“His body is an empty shell that hides a lustful fiend!”

Directed by Edward Dein

6.1

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Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 6.0TMDB 5.5

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Year

1959

Runtime

79 min

The premise

A mysterious epidemic has struck an Old West frontier town and young girls are falling deathly ill. Doc Carter, his lovely daughter Dolores, and preacher Dan Young have their hands full caring for the infirm. When one of the patients dies unexpectedly, Dan notices two puncture wounds on her neck. His investigation leads him to the strange gunslinger Drake Robey, who always seems to be slower on the draw than his opponents, but who—despite being outdrawn, and even shot—always manages to survive these deadly encounters. Dan soon discovers that Drake also has an aversion to crucifixes, sleeps in coffins, and cannot tolerate sunlight...

Horror Vault's take

When young women in a dusty frontier town begin dying under mysterious circumstances, a sharp-eyed preacher starts connecting the dots between their fates and a peculiar, seemingly indestructible gunslinger who rides into town. Curse of the Undead boldly mashes the iconography of the classic Western with Old World vampire mythology, a pairing as unlikely as it is surprisingly effective. The result is a slow-burning tale of faith, suspicion, and supernatural menace set against the sun-scorched backdrop of the American frontier.

Content: Mild Violence, Vampire Bite Imagery, Death Of Minor Characters