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3	A Film/HammerHorror film from 1966, directed by John Gilling.
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5	Mysterious deaths are happening around a small village in UsefulNotes/{{Cornwall}}. Local physician Dr. Peter Thompson (Brook Williams) writes a letter about this to his mentor, Sir James Forbes (André Morell). Dr. Thompson's wife Alice (Creator/JacquelinePearce) happens to be a friend of Sir James's daughter Sylvia (Diane Clare), and she convinces them to pay a visit. After they arrive, they uncover a plot involving the use of [[VoodooZombie zombified people]] as [[UndeadLaborers labor for a closed tin mine]].
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8	!!This film provides examples of:
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10	* AristocratsAreEvil: Hamilton.
11	* CatapultNightmare: Dr. Thompson waking up from his nightmare.
12	* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Hamilton's men snatch Sylvia and attempt to have "fun" with her, Hamilton halts them and lets her leave his house untouched. He still tries to turn her into a zombie, though.
13	* EyeAwaken: Done when Alice becomes a zombie.
14	* GraveRobbing: Because local superstitions keeps Dr. Thompson from performing a proper autopsy, he and Sir James have to resort to robbing a grave in an attempt to perform one.
15	%%* HollywoodDarkness
16	* HollywoodVoodoo: Zombies controlled by voodoo dolls.
17	* ImprovisedWeapon: When Sir James attacked by one of Hamilton's men, he defends himself with a candlestick.
18	* TheLivingDead: After Zombie!John Martinus [[DiesWideOpen kills Alice and throws her down the hillside]], she blinks when Sylvia picks her up. She is also visibly breathing on the examination table after Sir James and her husband have dug her up from her grave. (This is before she became zombified.)
19	* ManOnFire: When the voodoo dolls controlling the zombies catch fire, so do they.
20	* ThePowerOfBlood: Blood is an essential part of turning someone into a zombie.
21	* RiseFromYourGrave: After witnessing Alice's second death, Dr. Thompson faints and has a nightmare where he sees the dead rising from their graves.
22	* SecretPath: Hidden door in Hamilton's study leads to the caverns under his house.
23	* ShovelStrike: When zombified Alice closes in on Sir James, he [[OffWithHisHead decapitates her]] with a shovel.
24	* TheXOfY
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