Review – The Walking Dead

Despite a title that suggests George Romero (or perhaps Uwe Boll), this turns out to be an old Boris Karloff picture from 1936. Ah, if only we could return to the golden age when movies actually had to have scripts rather than huge effects budgets. Karloff plays an ex-con who gets framed for the murder of the judge who sent him up. The only two people in the world who know he didn’t do it are a young couple who work for a brilliant scientist. Unfortunately they don’t come forward until it’s too late to save him from the chair. But fear not, the scientist has come up with a way to bring the guy back from the dead. Once he’s back … well, the plot takes more twists than I can really cover here. Of particular note is the set used as the scientist’s lab. It’s got a lot of the spark-emitting doodads, but the room itself is medical-doctor clean and white rather than mad-scientist Transylvanian. I happened across this picture while channel surfing, and I’m glad I stayed to watch. Mildly amusing