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Decades ago, Dr. Malthus (Fernando Casanova) was trying to achieve
immortality regularly transfusing the blood of young women into his body -
with the side effect that these women die in the process. Eventually
though he's captured by the authorities, tried and hanged. Now, Dr.
Malthus has a descendant (Fernando Casanova again) who steals his body
from the crypt, revives him using the blood of a young woman ... and
Malthus the older, instead of showing undying gratitude, cages up Malthus
the younger next to an array of young woman, and has a second go at
immortality. And not only that, he also takes over his descendant's life
including his fiancée. Thing is, Malthus the older needs more and more
blood, as the effects of the blood are only temporary, and thus now and
again he turns back into his original horrid form of a walking dead - and
as that, he kidnaps quite a number of girls he throws into cages in his
lab. Eventually the caged girls and the younger Malthus manage to make an
escape, and burn down the lab, with the older Malthus inside. Creature
of the Walking Dead is pretty much one of producer/director Jerry
Warren's typical cut-and-paste jobs: He takes a foreign (this time
Mexican) movie, La Marca del Muerto, but instead of giving it a
proper dub, he uses mostly voice-over to move the story along and injects
plenty of new footage with an unconnected cast (including Bruno VeSota as
a cop, Katherine Victor as a rich woman who's into séances) into the
story that does little to help the plot along but pads out the movie to
feature length. The result's talky and schizophrenic, especially since the
characters of the new footage are written into and out of the story rather
at random and have nothing to do with the film's ultimate resolution, but
the Mexican source material is a good pulp product with some really nice
shots at least, so if you're into rather trashy vintage entertainment,
this movie's anything but a loss. Far from a masterpiece for sure, but
worth quite a few laughs.
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